Southern Chronicles

Southern Chronicles 2025

7.46

Rimants is more interested in playing rugby, listening to music and dealing on the black market than studying for school, but when he falls in love with Monika, his faith in love and the future is tested.

2025

Mariupolis

Mariupolis 2016

6.70

The city of Mariupolis is by the Azov sea. It is also on the river Kalmius. Most of the city’s residents, half a million according to the last census, are working for the steel factory and do fishing, for leisure or food, in between shifts. The orthodox church towers above the city and its newly build bronze domes are sitting next to it, waiting to be donned. A tent near by is sheltering a crying icon, which receives a steady flow of visitors.

2016

Bus

Bus 2004

1

This documentary follows a bustrip from Tallinn to Kaliningrad. A route that was so common in the Soviet times now passes through 4 different countries and crosses 3 different borders.

2004

The Jump

The Jump 2020

7.33

In the Cold War years of the 1970s, an American patrol boat meets a Soviet ship off the east coast of the United States for talks about fishing rights in the Atlantic. In the midst of this, while Russian commanders are aboard the U.S. Coast Guard vessel where the talks are being held, a Lithuanian sailor jumps across the ten feet of icy water separating the boats. Crash-landing on the deck of the American ship, he desperately begs for asylum. Though they try, the Americans ultimately fail to provide protection and the Soviets are allowed to capture him and brutally return him to their vessel. Thus begins a stranger-than-fiction story of imprisonment, discovery, fame, and freedom. Through rare archival footage and a dramatic first-person re-enactment of that fateful day by Simas Kudirka, the would-be defector himself, this tale of one of the biggest Cold War muddles takes us on a journey of uncanny twists of fate, and the emotional sacrifices of becoming a universal symbol of freedom.

2020

SOLO

SOLO 2024

1

The Vilnius Palace of Marriage, opened in 1974, is highly reminiscent of Soviet-era modernist architecture in Ukraine. Mariia’s dance represents her emerging womanhood in a space traditionally meant for the initiation ritual of two people. An episode of the anthology project “Dance + City”, which bridges contemporary dance and architecture across Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, France, and Ukraine. The film was screened both as an episode within the anthology and through independent festival and award distribution.

2024

The Paper Brigade

The Paper Brigade 2018

6.00

Lithuania, 1941, during World War II. Hundreds of thousands of texts on Jewish culture, stolen by the Germans, are gathered in Vilnius to be classified, either to be stored or to be destroyed. A group of Jewish scholars and writers, commissioned by the invaders to carry out the sorting operations, but reluctant to collaborate and determined to save their legacy, hide many books in the ghetto where they are confined. This is the epic story of the Paper Brigade.

2018

Sweeney Todd: the Demon Barber of Fleet Street

Sweeney Todd: the Demon Barber of Fleet Street 2009

1

In 1846, Anthony Hope sails into London with the mysterious Sweeney Todd, a once-naive barber whose life and marriage was uprooted by a corrupt justice system. Todd confides in Nellie Lovett, the owner of a local meat pie shop, and the two become partners, as Todd swears revenge on those that have wronged him and decides to take up his old profession.

2009

The Great Passion

The Great Passion 1993

1

In the oncology hospital people's problems, and destiniessituations are revealed in special life, relationships between doctors, patients and their relatives in extreme conditions are shown in a psychologically motivated and reasonable way, looking for light - even when all around is dark...

1993

A Gentle Creature

A Gentle Creature 2005

1

The already middle-aged Moneylender tells the story of his love for a young lady, poor but proud.

2005

Emigrants

Emigrants 1997

1

Teleplay based on Slavomiras Mrozekas' works.

1997

Mindaugas

Mindaugas 1995

1

Teleplay based on Justino Marcinkeviciaus' play.

1995

Zaldokynka

Zaldokynka 2006

1

Teleplay based on B. Dauguvietis' works

2006

Shepherd of Žemaitsi

Shepherd of Žemaitsi 1993

1

Teleplay about the personality and activities of Motiejas Valančiaus, a bishop of Žemaitsi and the problems of the Lithuanian nation in the 19th century.

1993

The Supper

The Supper 1997

1

A dialogue between two historical personalities, during which a political transaction takes place and the moral face of both personalities is revealed.

1997

The Last Months

The Last Months 2007

1

A comical story about old age, love, loneliness, and approaching death.

2007

The Rope

The Rope 1994

1

Old Abraham Bentley hid the remainder of the family fortune at one end of a rope he arranged in the barn - the noose at the other end is in plain sight. He receives his prodigal son, Luke, with a mixture of obvious joy and of inarticulate urgings for him to hang himself.

1994

Vincas Krėvė: Skirgaila

Vincas Krėvė: Skirgaila 1992

1

The Grand Duke of Lithuania Skirgaila locks up the Duchess of Lida Ona Duonute in his castle and forces her to marry him.

1992