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Nadia, Teresė and Ramutė are the three heroines of this documentary. Although they are very different, they are united by their unusual work - for decades they have been making a living by posing for artists. For Janina Lapinskaite, it is not the exotic profession that is important, but the stories that have marked these women's bodies over time. The heroines of the film talk openly about their choice of work, their colourful, albeit difficult past, and their equally difficult present - they bare not only their bodies, but also their souls to the camera.

Photographer Snieguolė Michelkevičiūtė, began creating a series Women on Men in 1977, which sharply stood out from the creative context of the time. Her photographs record nudes of older men. For a long time, the artist’s works were considered unusual and ignored. The documentary attempts to unravel the creative processes behind the scenes and to grasp the conflict between the artist and the creative object.

Kotryna and Paulius move to a small island to build their first home. But Kotryna’s joy fades as Paulius’ son from an earlier marriage is about to arrive and villagers act strangely, fleeing the island as if escaping something unseen.

Animated short.

A film about people's desire to live carefree. In such a life, they will have to solve a riddle.

The first part of the film – Island of Crete – was created in 2007, as an independent work. The second part – “Confession" – is like an other half of the Island of Crete, which reveals the reality of it as evidence of a rather cruel creative mechanism occasionally opens up even coercive elements. The author is trying to take a good look in the episodes that are often destroyed in the name of the film illusion creation.

A movie about used car dealers in post-Soviet Lithuania.

It's a feature-length narrative film about a middle-class couple, that wants to adopt the perfect little girl, but they end up being offered a rebellious 12-year-old boy.

A story about three best friends who are always looking for adventures.

Unknown by us, live small, interesting creatures - babauziukai. Each one of them - just like people - are unique and interesting.

A tiny car accident caused by an impoverished 75-year-old Ona escalates into a scheme of financial and psychological racketeering executed by the rich Giedrius. Used to iniquity, first Ona suffers but eventually loses it and cooks up a revenge plan, which she executes and restores the justice - be it's only for one night.

The protagonists of the film – the fishermen’s widows of a town on the Curonian Spit. Even though women’s lives were marked by a painful loss, one by one and all together they firmly walk on the lagoon’s coast. Or they go fishing. Sensitive, slow and poetic reflection about the fragility of fate and human strength.

The Druzhba installation explores the cultural, political, and geographical territories that unfold in a fictional journey along the world’s longest pipeline. The project’s psycho-geographic readings of this massive oil infrastructure reveal mechanisms of power and submission that rightfully belong to the past but persist even today.

Shopping center customers list their purchases for the day in the parking lot. Item by item, their lists merge into a meditative flow of merchandise, where shopping is explored not in the light of consumerism, but in the light of existentialism.

Recently divorced mother Sylvia invites her new boyfriend to the Christmas Eve dinner to meet her two grown-up children.

A musical about a fun and fantastical journey of students with their teacher into a fairytale, filled with adventures, songs, and dances.

In a few days young girl has important Art Academy revisions. All she does now is work trying to come up with the main idea for her artwork. Despite her own clearly visible distraction there are multiple outside factors hindering the creative process. Only when diving deep into her own mind, ignoring the outside world she is capable to discover and meet the main character. Only then she is able to create it.

Documentary about DIY sound systems in Vilnius and their creators.

The 19th century in the serf village of Lithuania. Young Severija and violinist Mykoliukas like each other, but their love is challenged by Geišė, a much older, though still lively and imperious, tycoon.