Beer 2024
In a charming Lithuanian village, a delicate bond between a father and son unravels through an ancestral beer-making tradition as they prepare for the annual harvest celebration.
In a charming Lithuanian village, a delicate bond between a father and son unravels through an ancestral beer-making tradition as they prepare for the annual harvest celebration.
Arturas Barysas-Baras - film artist, actor collector of music, literature, etc, the leader and vocal of avantgarde music band "And Everything what is Beautiful is Beautiful", Vilnius citizen. Some people thought he was a simple tramp. Others considered him liberty ambassador sending to the world signs of freedom - form creative ideas to western books and music records. He was one of the most vivid soviet Lithuanian underground people who were not afraid to declare freedom when all of its forms were forbidden. But when soviet system collapsed he could not find himself in a world because "freedom" does not like to be put I in any kind of system no matter how liberal it is. Five years after his death Baras' best friends meet to find the answers who was Baras and how has his beloved Vilnius changed being without him.
Avant garde computer animation short film.
Based on Lithuanian folk tales.
A story about a romantic robot who loved art. But the evil aliens don’t like this, and then, in revenge, the robot begins to create new types of weapons.
The first blueprints for rockets could be found in a treatise, Artis Magnae Artilleriae (1648) by inventor K. Simonavičius. And how many Lithuanian astronauts were there? Two. And one of them was an architect. Ozė (V. Ozarinskas, 1961-2014) was an exceptional figure in the Lithuanian cultural scene. His works stand out in their scale, depth, and originality. Especially inconvenient to the viewer is Ozė’s “black” creative period. But is black color only the symbol of despair? Astrophysicists estimate that the better part of the Universe is composed of invisible dark matter. Seems like Ozė knew that very well.
Dead zones form as oxygen levels deplete. Suffocation is becoming the new normal. There’s methane bubbling at the sea surface. Our political bearings come bursting in the Nord Stream explosion as the worst natural gas leak ever. Remnants of our defense and health industries lie at the bottom of the sea – in the form of Cold War myths and radioactive waste, which will take decades to recover from. A massive offering of hazard from humans to the environment, hypoxia is devastating for the sea. On display in the Baltic Art Gallery in Newcastle currently (29/11/25)
This film follows the rehearsals of ‘Heroes Square’, staged by the famous Polish theatre director, Krystian Lupa, who works with the text of his favourite writer, Thomas Bernhard, at the Lithuanian National Theatre in 2015.
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.
The film presents the story of the origin of the Puntuk stone with the help of animation tools.
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.
The film directed by E. Zubavičius tells how, inspired by M. Gorbachev's words about Estonia's debt to Russia during his visit to Estonia, Baltic economists began to calculate who owes whom and how much.
The film analyses the problems of raising crime among unemployed youth.
A little boy and his grandfather are spending the day at the seaside. This is a metaphoric tale on the discovery of death by a child.
A shopper walks through what was then the largest department store in Lithuania - VCUP (Vilnius Central Department Store) and asks the sales staff to smile.
A film about circus veterans. The main characters of the film are Barnabas, a power juggler, Jonas Ramanauskas, a folk artist of the LSSR, and Jadvyga Stankutė-Ramanauskienė, an acrobat. Both are long retired, but even in their cosy homes, their memories of the circus do not leave them, so the film recalls the interesting and sad history of Lithuanian circus.
As an esoteric, Soviet-era self-improvement practice, coding involves following instructions from a mysterious advisor – mind like a computer, programmable.
A documentary short film about writer Antanas Jonynas.
This film is a reflective audiovisual collage of images and sounds that have never met and were never supposed to meet.
A documentary film about childish games.