Just 25 years after gaining independence from Russia, Lithuania is facing occupation again. The airspace above the Baltic States is now one of the most dangerous in the world. In the face of the biggest aggression in Europe since the Second World War, this documentary tells a story of people desperately trying to preserve peace against imaginable odds. But the film is not about the war, it is about peace and the people willing to fight to preserve it.
"To make this film was a very old dream. The shooting started in 1988, before gaining the independence. Only being of father Stanislovas was something incredible these days. Unlocked doors from his barn where were stored priceless reliquaries, books. Not locked church with artworks inside. Unconditional trust... It impressed not only me." - Audrius Stonys.
Valdemaras Isoda got hooked on cinema since five. This addiction never went away. He is not a film director, he is not a screenwriter, nor a critic. He is a man who had been too good for Hollywood.
There is a bay in the Juodkrantė which is called Amber Bay. But there is no amber anymore. Only the cats. A lot of homeless cats... Are we responsible for those which we had tamed?
A documentary commemorating the 100th birthday of Czeslaw Milosz, the Nobel Prize-winning Polish-Lithuanian poet. Famous cultural figures, friends, and family retrace the life and work of this extraordinary thinker, joined by Milosz’s own words and a wealth of archival material. Born in a cross-border region of Lithuania in 1911, Milosz grew up a polyglot, fluent in Polish, Lithuanian, Russian, English, and French. During World War II he wrote for underground presses. Surviving Nazi rule, he went on to serve as a cultural attache of Poland in Paris. In 1951, he defected to the West and wrote his most famous prose work, The Captive Mind. By 1960, Milosz had emigrated to the U.S. to teach at the University of California, Berkeley. With the fall of the Iron Curtain, Milosz returned to Poland, where he passed away in 2004 at the age of 93. This film is a lyrical reflection on a life spent in exile yet filled with humor, passion, and big ideas that often went against the spirit of the age.
A film of a prison warden in a dystopian city who has broken his musical instrument. Without him – so he thinks – the whole city will come crashing down. But even after he steals another musical instrument from a prisoner, will it be enough to stop the city from collapsing?
A film that explores the layers of memory, archive and the phenomenon of being in the contemporary world. Through personal stories, archival images and jointly created documentary fragments, the film creates a space where the past encounters lost realities.
A peculiar interpretation of the events which got a big response in Lithuania, France and abroad. The story brings us to a fateful night in one of Vilnius hotels. Seemingly trivial conversation between two men about life, creation and unfortunate love gets more and more strained with every word until it comes to the verge of conflict. One fateful night in Vilnius became the tragic end of the love story of a film actress and a rock star.
A parody of the creative freedom of fashion in overly in-depth amateur movies.
In this synthesis of poetry and animation, a woman’s soul travels through ever-new lives and physical forms. In the existential chaos, she pursues the highest goal in life - to find her soul twin.
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.
Gintaras now drives a tow truck from Lithuania to the north of Norway. Ten years ago, he was a piano teacher. He accepts harsh conditions gently and does not feel lost. The mountains and roads replace him a warm pillow, and the loads' and cars' hum replace music.
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.
The understanding that energy neither originates from nothing nor disappears into nothing leads us to explore the concepts of reincarnation, rebirth, and transmigration from philosophical and religious perspectives.
