Whose Land Is This?

Whose Land Is This? 1988

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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.

1988

Lithuanian Film Diaries

Lithuanian Film Diaries 1991

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The histories of the Lithuanian state and Lithuanian cinema intertwine. The film incorporates documentary footage from various Lithuanian directors, excerpts from feature and animated films, and interviews with people.

1991

Should I bring in

Should I bring in "Antį" now? 1988

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Chronicle of summer 1988: "Antis" band concert, collective actions at the Baltic Sea, political sensations on TV, and clashes with the police

1988

Memories in the Clouds

Memories in the Clouds 2023

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Memories in the Clouds visualizes Kristina Laine’s (formerly Žičkutė) childhood memories in the Soviet Lithuania. Thoughts blend with impressions in a dream-like, painterly experimental documentary film. The film brings forth Kristina's worldview as a child, during the vast socio-political changes of the collapsing Soviet Union. Kristina's voice leads the audience to a journey through her fading, ephemeral memories and experiences. The film utilizes a combination of techniques: Timelapse videos of a summer sky shot on location in Lithuania, digital volumetric 3D simulation, and modern AI algorithms as animators to visualize the narration into the moving clouds.

2023

Druzhba - Opening, Puff

Druzhba - Opening, Puff 2003

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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.

2003

Druzhba - Lessons

Druzhba - Lessons 2003

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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.

2003

Blue Mountain. White Cloud

Blue Mountain. White Cloud 2024

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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.

2024

Xirasia

Xirasia 2023

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Short film directed by Emilija Škarnulytė

2023

Sunken Cities

Sunken Cities 2021

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Set 10,000 years in the future, looking into the past (our present), the mermaid archeologist of Sunken Cities dives into depths of the Gulf of Naples. Baia - an ancient Roman town situated on the northwest shore of the Gulf of Naples, currently underwater. Under the waves, the hedonistic resort of Baia unfolds as the mermaid swims: the sunken hallways, strange scaffoldings, sculptural figures of destroyed empires, mosaics of the sea floor - Roman ruins taken by the sea owing to local volcanic activity.

2021

Sounds of the desert

Sounds of the desert 2022

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The film is a poetic meditation on the lifelong journey of one man’s never-ending search for home. We follow Abshalom Ben Shlomo through a day at his home in the Negev desert in Israel, as we travel simultaneously through the cosmos with him as an African American refugee, legendary jazz musician, and spiritual searcher.

2022

A Local

A Local 2001

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Hilda Spalviene, a resident of Šakininkai village, is a German from Klaipėda region. The cheerful old woman, who draws a cigarette with a mouthpiece, recalls her life: before the war she lived in Germany with her husband, after the war she was exiled to Siberia. Later, she was able to go back to Germany, but she returned to Šakininkai - to the land of her parents. Although the film focuses on Hilda's story, it also subtly invites us to consider the issues of multiethnicity and national identity of the inhabitants of Klaipėda Region. Hilda, who speaks with an accent, stubbornly calls herself a local: she was born here and is ready to spend her last days here.

2001

Donatas Montvydas. 1987. Concert Film

Donatas Montvydas. 1987. Concert Film 2022

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"Donatas Montvydas. 1987. Concert Film'. An incredible music show that will take you behind the scenes of the artist's life and reveal things you won't see with any concert ticket. Sit in the best seats, travel to rehearsals and see what's left behind.

2022

It Was, It Was, as if It Never Was

It Was, It Was, as if It Never Was 1986

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A colourful, fun children's film about a little girl who observes the strange, funny, interesting and even scary things that are happening around her.

1986

Kur karalienės auksas?

Kur karalienės auksas? 1971

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A documentary about the achievements of Lithuanian athletes in 1970-1971 and the 1972 Olympic hopes.

1971

Bogdanas Longs to Stay

Bogdanas Longs to Stay 2023

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Bogdanas is one of the juvenile boys held in a closed socialisation centre for various offences. All the boys are counting down the days until their summer holidays so they can go free, but Bogdanas wants to stay here and refuses to leave.

2023

Meilė ir išdavystė

Meilė ir išdavystė 1984

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A documentary about the post-war struggle against "bourgeois nationalists".

1984

Letter to Ukraine

Letter to Ukraine 2023

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More than a hundred members of the Lithuanian film community have joined together in a voluntary film project "Letter to Ukraine", which aims to record what is happening in our country at this difficult time. The film focuses on a person close to the war: a passer-by, a protester, a volunteer, a medic, an artist.

2023

Coders

Coders 2023

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As an esoteric, Soviet-era self-improvement practice, coding involves following instructions from a mysterious advisor – mind like a computer, programmable.

2023