The Key of Time 2017
It will help to unlock the path to the past and to the future. This is the key to our happiness, and if time stopped for you, have a smile, this is the key to your happiness.
It will help to unlock the path to the past and to the future. This is the key to our happiness, and if time stopped for you, have a smile, this is the key to your happiness.
Once a year, a quiet and secluded village in the north-western part of Lithuania comes alive to celebrate Catholic Easter, doing its best to preserve the vanishing ancient tradition of the Guardians of the Cross. With gentle humor observing the preparations of the local community for the vigil and immersing the audience in Easter night, the filmmakers raise questions about the relationship between the sacred and profane in the modern world.
A collection of intimate thoughts, read aloud, that become the soundtrack of one of Jonas Mekas beautiful film journals.
In the course of a single day, young Egle is confronted with her mother's suicide and is consumed by the guilt of having caused her death, all because of not being able to write one letter in the alphabet.
A short film capturing the journey of various musicians and singers to the Lithuanian Song Festival.
An animated film about comical incidents on a ski slope.
Christmas Eve, the Soviet era, everyone is working. At the State Opera and Ballet Theatre, the longest performance, Swan Lake, is coming to an end, in which Rūta dances a swan in the corps de ballet.
The film discusses a relevant issue of today: sustainability, a cleaner future, social equality, and organizational transparency.
A seemingly calm young man waits at a bus stop, listening to music. However, his peace is disrupted by oblivious passersby. Soon, they will realize that sometimes, it's important to pay attention to what's happening around them.
The film directed by V. Starošas tells about Angkor, a huge complex of temples, palaces, water reservoirs and canals in Cambodia, built in the jungle in the 9th-13th centuries.
Like everything rotates around: vodkas searching, vituperation, floating barge, wind gusts. It seems the people, and the nature feel approaching farewell, and intermittent band, repetitive shots and phrases, accentuated the importance of the passing moment.
Documentary film showing authentic Lithuanian traditions & rituals during major seasonal festivals: Winter solstice, Mardi Gras, Easter, Midsummer.
Family drama about children's sexual education and its impact on children's lives.
Haunted by childhood trauma, 32-year-old Roland turns to tantra and shamanic rituals for healing. But his most unexpected therapeutic practice is repairing washing machines. As he fixes what’s broken, he asks: is it true that real men don’t cry?
Film explores the nature of fear and how it effects our lives.
Back in 2019 an extraordinary challenge took place for cyclists, called - Epic Hydra. The goal - cycle 800 km over sandy and brushes filled trail, cross rivers and streams taking no more than 5 days. For some - it was a race, for others an opportunity to experience Lithuania's natural beauty and a good way to test themselves. There was no monetary or any other price waiting for the finishers except for a t-shirt and self-satisfaction. The film "Challenge Yourself - Epic Hydra" follows a 62 year old Vitalijus, who despite his age, was determined to test himself and as he said himself: "see how old I've gotten". The only fear he had was the fear of not making it to finish. The 38 minutes of the film have the sun, the rain, the tough and not so much bits, but the the thing that it has a lot of - the will to challenge oneself!
It's a story based on a novel "The Etude" which is written by Jonas Mekas, a Lithuanian filmmaker, poet and artist who has often been called the godfather of American avant-garde cinema. It's a poetical story about two young theatre actors who are given a task - to create an étude, to imagine a story. Through their rehearsal they are trying to recreate a true event of their life in order to find a peace in their souls. By discovering the beauty of small details in life young people are trying to get rid of their fear for death in understanding that death is a memory of one's living. The dot is the ending - and the beginning.
Three maskless clowns wander the unkept edge of a forest in search of hidden brains. Watching the fools, who fail to find what they sought, are observers wearing clown masks.
BOS means Best Opposite Sex or the best representative of the opposite sex in the language of cynologists or felinologists. Most often BOS become female animals, as males are Best of Breed (BOB). The characters of the film are women. When Rasa's family broke up, cows and dogs became the way of life. When Vaiva's body "disintegrated", the hobby cats remained. Only Vaiva's hands and feet became her husband Konstantin. Dissimilar stories of two similar women with children, cows, dogs, and cats.
Lithuanian documentary about bicycles.