Vincentas is the best employee at the emergency services station, and he has only one passion – gambling in different games. Whenever he is in some difficult situation, the medic is forced to grab onto something radical to return the money he is constantly losing.

Lithuania’s Ignas Jonynas plots a darkly comic psychological thriller with the nearly-surreal The Gambler. A feature debut, it stars Vytautas Kaniusonis and Oona Mekas (yes, daughter of Jonas!) as two paramedics of particularly dubious morality, betting on the fate of their patients.