Alief , the French-U.K. film company, has swooped on worldwide sales rights to Lithuanian Karolis Kaupinis’ “Hunger Strike Breakfast,” his follow-up to debut “Nova Lituania,” Lithuania’s 2021 Oscar entry.

Receiving its world premiere at the 1-2 Competition of mid-October’s 41st Warsaw Film Festival, “Hunger Strike Breakfast” is produced by Marija Razgutė of M-Films , behind award-winning films “Slow,” at Sundance in 2023 and Vytautas Katkus’ “The Visitor,” which scooped best director at Karlovy Vary this July. The Czech Republic’s Background Films and Latvia’s Tasse Film co-produce.

Written by Kaupinis, it turns on Daiva (Ineta Stasiulytė), a star TV announcer, launching a hunger strike outside her company, Lithuanian Radio & TV, H.Q., in protest at its occupation by Soviet troops, wh

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