A film about a festival that has always been more than just a festival. It's about music, which has always been more than just music. It is a story about bright people who grew up under the MJR banner. People have grown up, they have become a tribe and it is time for them to leave the island and go out into the world.
For a few months every year, a small harbour in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean comes alive with hundreds of sailing boats. With little dramas around every corner, the tiny harbour briefly becomes a miniature model of the world.
In the spring of 2022, a forgotten photographic treasure was discovered in Lithuania - 840 negatives that had been hiding in the museum's archives for over 80 years. The documentary tells the story of the Museum's persistent researchers, whose patience and stubbornness resurrect the past, leading us through the labyrinth of the archives, where every answer gives rise to new questions.
There is no city, no golden towers nor golden bells. There are no golden leaves falling in every city every autumn. People have destroyed the golden city... They destroyed it and started building a simple stone one. Nineteen knights of the golden city appeared in one of the backstreets when the fog covering the city split and started raising the vanished golden city.
Animated short.
Animated short.
Animated short.
Animated short.
Walk in the forest: The search for mushrooms turns into a psychedelic trip for a young woman.
Staging of the battle. Scenes of extras running through the fields.
A film about Stasys Brundza, the winner of the Tour d'Europe, who managed to break into the wide world behind the Iron Curtain through sport.
Animation short.
Animated short.
A documentary by director Algirdas Tarvydas, exploring the emerging ideas at the dawn of the Lithuanian Rebirth about restoring the Lithuanian rural population to the status of landowners. The film focuses on specific individuals and presents four possible models: the so-called "family contract" system encouraged by Mikhail Gorbachev, homestead farming, the "individual land sector," and land granted for perpetual use.
Chronicle of summer 1988: "Antis" band concert, collective actions at the Baltic Sea, political sensations on TV, and clashes with the police
You are in a gargantuan depot. There is a tool you need. You find it easily based on the directions above the shelves. As soon as you grab it you feel it needs another object to be complete. But it doesn’t stop with the discovery of the second thing. Before you know it, you already have a whole trolley filled with useful things. Yet how useful? And for what? You need to make them make sense.
This anthropological film was made with the students of the Vilnius Pedagogical Institute as part of Karla Gruodis’ seminar on feminist theory in the early 1990s. Our Portraits brings together a group of women chosen and filmed on video by the students, very diverse personalities.
There is a story circulating among Zen Buddhist monks about two types of monks. First ones are settled and spend all their life in a monastery, they are identified with the blue mountains, while others are like white clouds – constantly traveling from one place to another. In the film, the filmmaker and Won Bo Sunim, a Lithuanian woman who decided to go to South Korea more than 20 years ago and become a Zen monk, embark on a journey in the mountains of South Korea.
In 2023 Lithuanian film professionals from different cinema backgrounds took part in a survey about self-validation in their career path. Their responses were shown to film art students at the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre. Seeing the lived experiences of the professionals, students begin to reflect on their own feelings.
