Populær Fra Lithuania

"Being part of the Soviet Union changed the way people lived their lives. My grandmother's memoirs analyze the reasons why Palanga feels isolated and alone and its inhabitants blocked and lost."

A young Lithuanian brother and sister find themselves on a road trip across the east of England in an attempt to see their favorite football team play in Norwich City. With no money they ride their luck through an unfamiliar land by any means necessary, laying their fate at the people they meet along the way. Will the love of the game be enough to see them through to the Brother's goal?

The focus of attention in one of the earliest films by a highly prolific documentary director Edmundas Zubavicius is a veterinary clinic in Kaunas; the observation of its daily routine reveals the longing for human sympathy as if yearning for a prayer. Quite a sophisticated relation between the visual and the sound is outweighed by the junctions of poetic film language and realistic shots. They invite to contemplate the relationship between nature and man.

"The film Energy in Lithuania is a documentary study of an industrial installation (an electric power plant), which includes conversations with people who have worked there. Although the power plant is functioning, it has now become like a museum of industrial thought. Still, the livelihood of thousands of people depend on it. It will not be easy to reform industrial society. The biggest challenge is to find a credible intellectual replacement for positivist industrial romanticism." - Deimantas Narkevičius

When Henrikas Šablevičius started filming Lithuanian “oddballs” – a professor, a fortune teller, racers, and many others who fell short of the concept of the “model citizen” – he invented a bizarre new genre of documentary biopic. Characteristic of these portraits is a sense of mocking irony directed not at their subjects (on the contrary, the filmmaker’s affection for them is palpable) but at the “Soviet hero” genre. The subject of this film is Apolinaras, a kindhearted policeman who even outwardly looks very unlike the ideological “guardian of morals.”.

The first Lithuanian puppet-animated sound film

Eimantas and Migle finally decide to move in together. One day Eimantas notices a snake in the toilet. While this confrontation ends without any casualties the atmosphere between the couple changes when the fear of a reptile at their house, slowly turns into the real paranoia.

"After “Antigravitation” I wanted to make another step up, where disappears last prop under your feets. “Flying Over the Blue Field” – movie about loneliness in infinite sky. Man stays with himself, home-made plane and balance on the limit between death and life." - Audrius Stonys.

"While shooting “Three Days” (director Šarūnas Bartas) I met Georgian Alexander Oboladze. We lived in the same hotel room. From restaurants and parties tycoon he became completely single. For me strange is the situation then man is stranded away from homeland but haven’t lost his mentality, language; just like exotic tree grown up in Lithuania. He was wandering around Vilnius old town, knew every corner and basement of it like no one else. He was looking and finding lost time, things left by other men and creating from it his own unique world." - Audrius Stonys.

During harsh winter, two sweethearts dream about moving to the city to look for an easier job, and get away from a poor rural life.

This is a story about humans and things, where people wander, searching, trying to find and wants to be found, about lost and found buttons and about the invisible yarns that connects.

Join Netimeras in his quest to find the mythical Axe of Perkūnas

A humorous story centered on a futuristic dairy museum

Martynas, who is seriously ill and completely paralyzed, spends his days in a hospice. He has been diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, a disease with a survival rate of less than 10 percent after three years. Martynas' life was far from exemplary, filled with despair, protests, and alcohol. The man who promoted unbridled freedom was confined to bed by illness. Today, Martynas has no control over his body and communicates using his eyes via a computer. In the hospice, he starts a business and a support charity called "Live Today," and becomes a teacher so he can help others suffering from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. The hospice becomes the beginning of a new life for Martynas, where he finds happiness, meaning, and hope. Martynas' story intertwines with the daily life of the hospice, his friends, family, and the strength, sense of humor, and support of the volunteers and nurses who care for him. Waiting for death here becomes a light...

In the film, we discuss eternal values and the role of dissidents in the modern world with people who belong to this active minority, whose persistence led to the collapse of the Soviet empire.

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.

All sorts of things can happen to an experienced skydiver during free fall — and all sorts of unexpected items turn up in his backpack! There’s even a parachute in there, paradoxical as it may seem.

Emilija Škarnulytė’s immersive installation is inspired by the Kaunas Tadas Ivanauskas Zoological Museum’s displays. For her performative, cinematic piece she brings together the poetic and scientific to create a sensory experience that investigates the philosophical concept of Deep Time and events on a geological scale. This story of survival through time, unfolds with the choreography of artificial lights and sounds. Škarnulytė’s work evokes time travel and can be understood as a form of archeology of the future. Here, she investigates the unknown, including pre- and post-human evolution and adaptation, the current intersecting structures of power and the devastating effects of climate change.

Vaidotas invited friends to visit his farm on the occasion of the holidays. Upon arrival, Marius and Norbė found a completely unprepared farm for Christmas, had to go to work together and to participate in christening, not only the farm but also Vaidotas himself.