Populær Fra Lithuania

About the life and customs of the pre-war Lithuanian bourgeoisie in the seaside resort of Palanga.

Gustas acts strangely, begs to be woken up — as if trying to escape a dream. Gustas calls his sister — no answer. He and his friends find themselves in an underground club. Music hypnotizes Gustas. Later, Gustas returns to his home. In bed lies his sister’s lifeless body. Gustas calmly says: “Don’t worry. It’s just a dream.”

A mentally ill young woman Valda convinces herself that a boy growing up in an orphanage is her child. Following the footsteps of a thousands Lithuanians, she immigrates to Ireland to earn money to save him. "Loss" portrays the beauty and tragedy of the human heart.

When the mother of four children goes on vacation for the first time, she does not encounter a wonderful natural landscape, but the inconvenience of being without family, household and children, in which she discovers the need to hear herself.

A school teacher learns that her son will fail the state exams. She must choose whether to engage or leave with a clear conscience.

Lithuania, 1968. After serving in the Soviet Army, Lukas comes back from Prague to his friends: Andrius, a state prosecutor's son, Julius, an unsuccessful artist, and Beatrice, who is attractive to all of her friends in her purity.

Driven to the edge by a huge debt and his impending divorce, a poetic accountant decides to kill himself but is rescued by a heart attack.

A girl arrested after a car crash is taken to a detention centre to spend the night. In a cold and dark basement, she faces the apathy of the cops - she's just another criminal in their routine. The vivid experiences and the inner confrontation with herself affect the girl. It is unclear how long her detention will last.

Tells the tale of Lithuanian post-war history.

Arūnas, an 18 year old high-school graduate from the port town, is going through a crisis. He is stressed by the school routine. At home, his father bores Arūnas with his constant recollections about fighting in an antifascist guerrilla squad, while his mother unexpectedly turns back to her old dream of becoming an artist and decides to leave the house, taking her younger son Saulius with her. His father ends up in hospital, because of a grenade fragment lodged in his spine since the war. Arūnas is surrounded by the betrayal of friends.

A gambling villager Julius suddenly wins 3 million euros in a lottery and does not know what to do with it.

Human beings are the kings of all animals, at least if you ask us humans. Our vanity is given something to mirror itself in, but does not escape without a scratch or two in this documentary, which observes a taxidermist, a deer farmer and a museum curator at work. Three jobs that have one thing in common: turning animals into aesthetic objects, alive as well as dead. When the work is done properly, it is impossible to tell the difference. Dead pets are mummified. At the zoological museum, the animals' glassy eyes stare back at us from the showcases. Even a plastic alligator has its natural place in the human master plan.

“The Mammoth Hunt” is a story about a film reel that for many years has been thought to be lost. On the reel, under conspiracy conditions, an abolished anti-Soviet theatre performance had been documented nearly 50 years ago – a play that served as a cross-section of the period revealing the universal subjects of courage, conformation, loyalty and betrayal.

After 30 years of exile in Paris, Jana travels back to Vilnius. She wants to see again the lake that Paulius, her first love, called “Walden”.

1983 Lithuanian film

The life of local businessman Cibulkis turns upside down when his daughter Kotryna introduces him to her fiancee Fransua, as the ultra-conservative father did not expect his son-in-law to be of African American origin.

Seneca’s Day is set in the year 1989, the final period of the Soviet era in Lithuania. Eighteen-year old buddies establish the Seneca’s Fellowship with the motto “Live each day as if it was your last”. A love triangle breaks up the fellowship right at the time the nation experiences an exceptional sense of community via Baltic Chain.Twenty-five years later, the main character who at first glance appears to be accompanied by good luck, is disillusioned with himself. He has betrayed the ideals of his youth and become a cold observer of life.

In the Lithuanian village of Lietuvos, a farmer brings his sheltered nephew, Joni, to the rich Bani. By biting the prospective host's hand, the teenager gains the nickname of "the devil's seed."