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The sound of the documentary is the anthropology of the accompanying video: songs, people, shop windows, street musicians, characters of the time. It is expected that the viewer will not only see, but also smell how people dressed, combed their hair, and what shoes they wore in Vilnius 20 years ago.

A documentary film about the most important nineteenth-century photographer of Vilnius - Juzefas Čechavičius.

The portrait of poet, essayist, translator, dissident and professor of literature at Yale University - Tomas Venclova.

Dinner is a short documentary about people from the most vulnerable social layer. Every day they gather at the door of a charity canteen, waiting for a plate of hot food. Half-hour waiting makes for a dozen life stories revealing the fragile line between human hope and despair.

He is Georgian. She is Lithuanian. They meet in Moscow for two hours - To break up. But the hotel is not the best place for breaking up, when your neighbors are making love.

The first autumn snow is falling. At the same time a man passes away. Death comes with the beginning of winter.

The people of Samogitian village are preparing to participate in civil protection competitions. Exercises are held in the village. The most important thing is to be prepared for an nuclear attack. All instructions are carefully executed. And it does not matter at all that the exercise looks funny for bystanders. Samogitians are also happy to be together.

Clay animation film by John Biliūno tale "Light of Happiness." That's an allegoric tale about an insurmountable mountain, at the top of which glow the light of happiness - source of freedom, love and hope.

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.

A year-long journey during which the camera observes how life develops in various parts of the country, in towns and villages on both sides of the Dniester River. The main character of the film is Moldova—picturesque and unique, happy and sad—like some other post-Soviet states, it is a country of contrasts. Often called a land of fertility and magic, it is even more often misunderstood, and for some people it does not even exist.

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.

What would you choose: live in reality or a fantasy world where you are the hero?

In a small village, together with tailors, shoemakers, poor musicians and strange wise men, lives the tailor Mendel and his large family... And who could have thought that the reason for happiness or unhappiness for this family could be a simple goat? Here begins an instructive story full of folk wisdom.

A self-filmed road movie about quest for lost faith. Jokubas Vilius Turas is in desperation to find strength and courage in himself to overcome hardships, frustration and self-destruction. On the dangerous and physically exhausting walk from Lithuania to Spain, he captures what is happening around and inside him on video.

Back in 2019 an extraordinary challenge took place for cyclists, called - Epic Hydra. The goal - cycle 800 km over sandy and brushes filled trail, cross rivers and streams taking no more than 5 days. For some - it was a race, for others an opportunity to experience Lithuania's natural beauty and a good way to test themselves. There was no monetary or any other price waiting for the finishers except for a t-shirt and self-satisfaction. The film "Challenge Yourself - Epic Hydra" follows a 62 year old Vitalijus, who despite his age, was determined to test himself and as he said himself: "see how old I've gotten". The only fear he had was the fear of not making it to finish. The 38 minutes of the film have the sun, the rain, the tough and not so much bits, but the the thing that it has a lot of - the will to challenge oneself!

A docu-poem about people living for over two decades in the Buda forest, near the closed down Kariotiskes dump in Lithuania. After four years of work, this film captures the perspective of the dump dwellers. It tells the story about the dissolving community, its uniqueness, daily routine, specific way of life, every-day joys and sorrows.

A film about M. K. Čiurlionis Art Gymnasium (formerly Vilnius Art School) and its students.