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An old hermit and would be botanist tries to catch a mythical creature who lives in the forest to add to his exclusive collection.

The play tells about Christmas Eve in an old people's home, from which the residents long to leave to their families, but life dictates its own rules.

In 16th century Lithuania, where the plague is raging, a fanatical Jesuit comes to eradicate paganism. The fanatic begins his activity, entering into a struggle with everything that he considers a pagan deviation from the true faith. Especially he is alarmed by Pima, the daughter of a local priest who does not intend to hide her adherence to pagan rituals. But the fight takes a completely unexpected shade: the hero realizes that he is obsessed with passion and can not resist the temptation…

Early in the morning, the air-raid siren goes off. Mother's darkest thoughts become true. She awakens her little son and hurries to pick up only the outfit that is at hand and runs out to protect their lives. In the boy's room, deathly silence reigns with no hope that the family will ever come back there again.

The concert "Pasikeist" at the Compensa Concert Hall in Vilnius drew you into the visual and mystical world of music from the very first sound. In the ruins of a future house, as the red clock strikes an ever later hour, reality and dreams begin to mix, guests appear and everything is not as it seems.

Young man is unable to take care of himself, his dog escapes at night. The man wakes up in the morning chained to a radiator. Only a stranger who found his dog can help him escape from an even greater tragedy than chaining.

Lithuania in the 19th century: While the first railway-road is built from Warsaw to Moscow throughout the country people are still facing slavery and oppression from the elite. A fight between the Robin-Hood-like gang leader Laurynas and the greedy landowner Laurnyas emerges.

The storyline begins with Muza's childhood in the grip of the Soviet occupation regime. After winning the Liszt-Bartok International Piano Competition in Budapest, Muza starts receiving invitations to perform at Europe's foremost concert halls, but, alas, the Iron Curtain descends and she is no longer allowed to go abroad. Muza finally gets her chance in 1989 when the Soviet Union begins to collapse. Hard work eventually brings international recognition. The film depicts Muza's renewed battle with isolation as she is once again not fully able to perform due to the pandemic.

Tadas, his pregnant girlfriend Grete and friend Robis live in an abandoned house. The couple decides to start a course of addiction treatment, but before they do, they are tempted to use heroin for the last time.

Animated short.

As a Lithuanian-Venezuelan actress channels her childhood obsession with beauty pageants into a personal stage act, she confronts the dreams she inherited, the places she left behind, and the woman she’s still becoming.

It is a short story about ordinary street guys. Like many others they want to be cool. They want to love, to possess, to survive and to fulfill their ambitions. But will the night streets grant them this chance?

A summary of twenty years of the work of film director and actor Algimantas Maceina, a document of his spiritual, ethical and aesthetic quest.

A short film capturing the journey of various musicians and singers to the Lithuanian Song Festival.

Conversations On Serious Topics is a film without exterior action, props, landscapes or special effects. Its main characters are children and teenagers with a special ability to describe the surrounding world. Intimate conversations with them reveal the picture of the modern world -- at times melancholic, at times comical, at times dramatic. Shot in a minimalist fashion, the film raises questions about loneliness, love, God, the world and human relations. "The world is people." "Don't you believe in God? I can teach you how to start believing..."

A portrait movie of the Godfather of American avantgarde cinema. Through material filmed primarily in the 1990s by both the directors and Jonas Mekas himself, a new insight appears on the filmmaking Lithuanian New Yorker who doesn't consider himself someone who makes films but a filmer.

A Story About 'turning Death Into Life' - Icons on Ammunition Boxes Transform the Military Rubbish Smelling of Death Into Life-Affirming Art.

For more than a decade, Artūras Morozovas has been photographing people in vulnerable situations – those who have experienced the Russian occupation and its consequences, those affected by the war in Ukraine, and those experiencing social isolation in Lithuania. He explores social problems that are still felt in both countries as a result of the Soviet occupation.