Better than Heaven, Worse than Hell

Better than Heaven, Worse than Hell 1979

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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.

1979

The Documentary

The Documentary 1979

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Staging of the battle. Scenes of extras running through the fields.

1979

We

We 1980

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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.

1980

Northern Spring

Northern Spring 2008

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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.

2008

Giants of Pelesa

Giants of Pelesa 1970

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Arūnas Matelis' graduation film tells the story of a Lithuanian village in Belarus – Pelesa and this village's luminary Marija Kruopienė.

1970

Home

Home 2025

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A lonely man lives in a city full of people, but the man does not see them. Black colour covers his consciousness and he loses touch with reality. Since the constant journey up and down repeats in his daily life, trying to search for some meaning, the man finds a red stone, but the meaning does not create. Not finding a way out of the city, the man freezes like a stone himself.

2025

I Love The Bullet In Your Heart

I Love The Bullet In Your Heart 2011

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Mary got acquainted with an older man – Donatas, which opens his heart to her. Donatas tried to murder himself for his beloved woman, but the bullet dented a rib and he survived.

2011

Mana rajons: Pietinis

Mana rajons: Pietinis 2024

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Documentary about 4th biggest city in Lithuania - Šiauliai and it's famous microdistrict Pietinis.

2024

Good Day

Good Day 2024

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The experimental short film "Good Day" transports the audience to one never-ending day of the life of interwar Kaunas, which, like an architectural moment recaptured in time, silently tells about the bygone city full of progress and hope. 24 hours pass in 24 minutes, as if through a keyhole watching and listening to the rhythm of the city boiling around the iconic tower of the Vytautas the Great War Museum. With the help of a physical newspaper specially created for the film, viewers have the opportunity to calmly explore one golden day of the first Republic of Lithuania and evaluate it in the context of today's stormy times.

2024

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

Hypoxia

Hypoxia 1970

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Dead zones form as oxygen levels deplete. Suffocation is becoming the new normal. There’s methane bubbling at the sea surface. Our political bearings come bursting in the Nord Stream explosion as the worst natural gas leak ever. Remnants of our defense and health industries lie at the bottom of the sea – in the form of Cold War myths and radioactive waste, which will take decades to recover from. A massive offering of hazard from humans to the environment, hypoxia is devastating for the sea. On display in the Baltic Art Gallery in Newcastle currently (29/11/25)

1970

Triangle Lifted: Krystian Lupa Stages Heroes Square

Triangle Lifted: Krystian Lupa Stages Heroes Square 2015

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This film follows the rehearsals of ‘Heroes Square’, staged by the famous Polish theatre director, Krystian Lupa, who works with the text of his favourite writer, Thomas Bernhard, at the Lithuanian National Theatre in 2015.

2015

The Goat Luck – Bad Luck

The Goat Luck – Bad Luck 2017

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In a small village, together with tailors, shoemakers, poor musicians and strange wise men, lives the tailor Mendel and his large family... And who could have thought that the reason for happiness or unhappiness for this family could be a simple goat? Here begins an instructive story full of folk wisdom.

2017

Diary of Childhood

Diary of Childhood 2009

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Narrates the story of the friendship between an injured girl and a ladybird, reflecting a special relationship between the child and nature.

2009