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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 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.

The film reviews all of Lithuania's most important lighthouses: those that still exist and those that have been lost, those that can be seen and those that have been covered by the dust of oblivion.

Unrelated strangers find out that they've got something in common. It's the realisation that words cannot express what is truly going on inside them. Therefore, when words end, the image begins to speak.

Footage from the shoot/editing of Her Love (Excerpt).

Two men climb out of a pit in the earth and dissolve into a wild collage of patterns, images and bodies. Barysas’ most experimental film.

Scenes from Vilnius, the city breathes new beginnings, change is in the air. Then clouds gather and a storm breaks out. Long thought to be lost, this film by Barysas is one of his most beautiful.

A visit to the cafe develops into a Dadaist parody of real socialist service.

An unexpected incident occurs in the canteen during the middle of rush hour.

A slow procession on May 9th, 1980. ”Victory Day”. A military parade is marching, a forest of red flags, veterans in suits covered with medals are laying flowers at the foot of the Soviet monuments. The usual Soviet propagandist spectacle. Barysas’s response to the system – and the film that got him suspended for a year from the Society of amateur filmmakers for transgressing the rules on amoral, lewd content.

The wife of a depressed sailor explains what it is like to wait for her husband and then not be able to find any common ground.

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 film is dedicated to the 75th anniversary of the Lithuanian Charter. The Lithuanian Charter is still alive today. As many as 45 people in Lithuania, the US, Argentina, France, and Poland shared their life stories.

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.

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 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 mysterious history and creative legacy of the 1981-1989 group "Sa-Sa." The biggest Lithuanian post-punk music enigma.

Short film directed by Emilija Škarnulytė