By casting its gaze to the periphery of Vilnius, Užupis, the film follows the tradition of the first generation of independent filmmakers. The result is the mute portrayal of a furnace caretaker, Jonas Valeiša, and a graphic artist, Šarūnas Leonavičius.
The film about the city of Naujoji Akmenė is regarded as one of the first Lithuanian attempts to liberate itself from the stereotypes of the Soviet documentary. Even though the remnants of the “Socialist prosperity” are clearly perceptible in the movie, the process of directing is obtaining more freedom: the voiceover is losing its canonization, and the power of the narrator is given to the main character, a small child Virginijus.
Film reel and its material qualities are inseparable from an image it carries. Polarity between the physical marks on celluloid and the photographic image that it supports was an inspiration to create a stereoscopic sculptural illusion, titled Stains and Scratches.
The centerpiece of A. Grikevicius's film is Tomas Petreikis, the chief engineer of the machine factory in Kaunas F. Dzeržinskis. Rather than creating a regular, conjunctural narrative about the hero of socialist work that exceeds production norms, the director captures another personality of his film's hero. After work, Tom is an entertaining dancer, teacher and contest judge. "Construction and dancing? No, they don't not have any relation," T. Petreikis answers the question posed by the journalist. However, the film observes the parallels that reveal the precision of the constructor-dancer, the perfection of the goal, both by controlling the work of the machine tools and by teaching pairs of dancers to rotate on the parquet, imply another answer.
This is a story about humans and things, where people wander, searching, trying to find and wants to be found, about lost and found buttons and about the invisible yarns that connects.
Andrius, a Lithuanian immigrant, comes to California seeking to reconnect with his older brother, only to realize that his brother's American dream isn't all that he had imagined.
Where does love go when lovers break apart? Or when they stay together? How do you find the spirit to fall in love again? Is it permissible-possible and is it possible-legal to love several people at the same time? What becomes of our love after death, is it really that important or simply inevitable? This is about the laws of love, which are as simple as one, two, three, when we are still in love, but incomprehensible and unexplainable once love retreats. About the logic of the heart, which has nothing in common with common logic, just like non-Euclidean geometry disproves and surpasses the Euclidean one.
Perfume fragrances with a bewildering force stimulates sexual desire.
Family drama about children's sexual education and its impact on children's lives.
A documentary commemorating the 100th birthday of Czeslaw Milosz, the Nobel Prize-winning Polish-Lithuanian poet. Famous cultural figures, friends, and family retrace the life and work of this extraordinary thinker, joined by Milosz’s own words and a wealth of archival material. Born in a cross-border region of Lithuania in 1911, Milosz grew up a polyglot, fluent in Polish, Lithuanian, Russian, English, and French. During World War II he wrote for underground presses. Surviving Nazi rule, he went on to serve as a cultural attache of Poland in Paris. In 1951, he defected to the West and wrote his most famous prose work, The Captive Mind. By 1960, Milosz had emigrated to the U.S. to teach at the University of California, Berkeley. With the fall of the Iron Curtain, Milosz returned to Poland, where he passed away in 2004 at the age of 93. This film is a lyrical reflection on a life spent in exile yet filled with humor, passion, and big ideas that often went against the spirit of the age.
Bulvinukas is a wanderer – a quiet soul drifting through forgotten paths, finding beauty where others rarely pause to look. Is beauty meant to be admired… or to be held onto?
A tiny car accident caused by an impoverished 75-year-old Ona escalates into a scheme of financial and psychological racketeering executed by the rich Giedrius. Used to iniquity, first Ona suffers but eventually loses it and cooks up a revenge plan, which she executes and restores the justice - be it's only for one night.
In 1991, when Lithuania's statehood was threatened, the whole country responded to the call to defend independence. People from the capital and various cities and towns across the country traveled to Vilnius to guard the most important state objects and stood guard over them for days on end.
A film about the "concrete kids” of Lithuania, who grew up in the nineties without their parents' love that were forced to grow up and live in the freedom they created: Teen Rokas' way to his own personal musical freedom and freedom from his mafia family and street violence.
Is art greater than life? What does it take to make art and have a family together? As interdisciplinary artists Nomeda and Gediminas Urbonas prepare for their career retrospective, their filmmaker daughter reflects on what it means to grow up in a family of artists.
A film about doctor Vaclovas Inta, whose unique worldview, willpower, and persistence saved thousands of years old glacial boulders from brutal destruction, preserving not only their aesthetic value, but also their historical and scientific significance as natural monuments, and preventing them from being turned into construction rubble.
A poetic documentary study representing the life, paintings, and music of M. K. Čiurlionis.
Visual etude based on M. K. Čiurlionis' symphonic poem "In the Forest."
Seeking a sense of freedom and a break from everyday chaos, four friends wander through places in Vilnius Old Town that most people never see. Together, they discover a hidden part of the city where they seem to become invisible, the world feels calmer, and their bond grows stronger.
The entire life of singer Beatričė Grincevičiūtė is filled with music. The director sensitively and carefully creates a multifaceted portrait of the performer. In the film, she is both her own most demanding critic and a playful teacher to young children, who affectionately call her "Auntie Music." Surrounded not only by a group of friends, but also by admirers of her talent, she remains modest and simple, wanting as many people as possible to experience the beauty of music and her favorite songs. Only the subtle final shot reminds us that Beatričė experiences the world not with her eyes.
