Two men meet in a run-down Vilnius restaurant - an old man and a young thug named Vytas. After a couple of drinks, the old man suggests that Vytas, who is emigrating to Bergen the following day, can save the restaurant's singer from hardship if he were to take her away with him.
Empty deserted places in a foreign land. A couple travels south to find their lost connection at a mysterious relationship resort. While on the trip there, their car disappears.
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...
A young school graduate doesn't study yet. All his life consists now are parties and DJing. He lives away from his parents wanting an independent life where he needs no one's help when one day the power in his dorm goes out.
A couple gets into an argument about putting their old dog to sleep. When and under what circumstances a person becomes the owner of another's life? The paradox of the humane slaughter act. Which killing methods are acceptable, and which ones aren't?
Amid rumors of the impending outbreak of World War III, 25-year-old musician Fedor Ozerov becomes obsessed with searching for his favorite sweater with daisies. He believes that this sweater gives him magical songwriting powers.
It is highly probable that before their own death, everyone has to organise someone else’s funeral. This is by far not an easy task. In addition to the searing grief, dying also brings a number of tasks that are at once utterly alien and intensely time-critical. The main character of this film, Dovile, who unexpectedly has to bury her father, has to face the bedlam of exactly such a challenge. Overnight, the young girl has to become a skilful organiser of a family event, while also being a specialist on coffins, urns, wreaths and funeral feasts. Dovile’s journey towards organising a perfect funeral is inevitably full of hardship and mishaps, accompanied mainly by black humour and comical situations.
Based on Carlo Goldoni's play.
For thirty years after the wedding, the war separated Jurgis and Morata. Now he is a famous surgeon, he works in the USA under the name of George Sticker and does not know that his daughter has grown up. But Morata finds him anyway. A belated honeymoon does not bring them happiness...
It seems that his life is finally moving in the right direction and he will soon be able to enjoy a happy life with his beloved Greta. But soon everything turns upside down. After returning from his honeymoon, Robert is caught up in a whirlwind of misunderstandings and unexpected situations, during which his beloved disappears. What can't you do for your sweetheart and your mother? This time he has an "almost" impossible mission.
Using a faceless doll criminal reenacts a brutal crime. But surprisingly he is not the one being judged. There seems to be an odd one out in the investigative group. The film premiered in the Berlinale Short competition programme.
The author Jurga Ivanauskaitė (1961-2007) was considered a pioneer of contemporary Baltic literature well beyond the borders of Lithuania. Her work deals intensively with the tension between religion, sexuality and emancipation. Film documents and interviews serve to reconstruct the life of this independent and willful woman - from her childhood to her artistic breakthrough as a companion of the Lithuanian rock and punk scene, but also depicting her spiritual side, which brought her all the way to India, where she turned to Buddhism. She is shown as fighting for the Dalai Lama and a "free Tibet", shown as a literary mind, but first and foremost she is shown as a woman who stood bravely in the face of inconvenience, pain and inner demons.
The fate of a young man who went to America to seek happiness, his longing for his homeland and the search for true values...
Portrait of Augustinas Baltrušaitis, film and theatre director, as well as actor, who fell into obscurity and has now been relegated to the margins of society, as a result of specific political circumstances. Countdown is a film about the limits of memory, the effects of the implacable passage of time, and a hope that surpasses time.
With striking images and meticulous sound work, Burial reminds us of the paradoxical relationship between scientific development and the destruction of nature. Questioning the effects of human activity on the planet we inhabit and which we have put at risk, the film focuses on the unsolved issues of nuclear plants and nuclear activity.
1942-1943 Lithuania, Kaunas, German occupation. A young priest Jomantas comes to a new gymnasium to work as a religion teacher. Here he tries to persuade his students out of joining German army.
A faithful adaptation of the story of famous Lithuanian author Baltusis both in subject and artistic presentation. Three brothers Laurynas, Stanislovas and Antanas fall in love with one woman Kazyte and dramatic events make all three brothers go to jail for homicide, while she lives alone on their land.
The main conflict is developing between the young talented scientist Romas Špokas and Karolis Budrys, who, by hook or by crook, is trying to occupy the chair of director of a research institute, organized for the widespread development of work on the implementation of Špokas’ promising scientific idea.
Coming of age short drama film tells a story about a teenage athlete Victoria who’s experiencing a burnout. While preparing for the race she meets another athlete who’s unconstrained nature captivates her. Inspired by emerging relationship, Victoria finds herself in the need to express her own voice.
