The River

The River 2009

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The film tells the story of people living at the confluence of the Neris and Šventoji rivers, in the village of Saleninkai, next to the Jonava chemical giant. As a result of the accident at the chemical plant, the villagers on the other side of the river were evicted and the Senenians left. A dozen families still live on contaminated land. There is no longer a ferry across the Neris, there is no bus to the suburb 12 km away. The children have to cross the river daily by boat and travel about 3 km to Rukla school. Saleninkai people are engaged in casual jobs, living on benefits, pensions. How he pays, so does his own life, that of his children and grandchildren.

2009

Sustingusi Laike

Sustingusi Laike 2019

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"Being part of the Soviet Union changed the way people lived their lives. My grandmother's memoirs analyze the reasons why Palanga feels isolated and alone and its inhabitants blocked and lost."

2019

Film About an Unknown Artist

Film About an Unknown Artist 2009

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An unknown artist repents in Lithuanian places of pilgrimage, as she is not famous in this success-oriented society and therefore has a guilty conscience.

2009

Lithuania

Lithuania 1938

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Colour documentary about Lithuania in 1937-1938 by Motūzas Brothers is made for Lithuanian community schools and youth organisations in Canada to show Lithuania's life before the Soviet occupation in June 1940. It shows the Lithuanian countryside, cities and towns, architecture, people's daily life, the most important events of 1937 - 1938 years.

1938

Windows

Windows 2019

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In the last 7 years I lived in 5 countries, in 7 cities and in 16 homes. Now I only have three days to pack my things. It‘s my sixteenth home, sixteenth room from which I‘ll move myself out. I am packing things and through my window I see another 215 windows. Through these windows I see immigrants, couples, misfortunes. Some read, some play, some sleep, some learn to walk on the balance beam, they come in, they go out. I am filming so I wouldn‘t forget about them.

2019

Vytis

Vytis 2018

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Young man, but already drug addict for a decade, Vytis, after finding himself at the threshold of death was checked in a rehab by his grandparents. Now Vytis is able to piece together his ‘puzzle’ of life. Here it comes down to a choice.

2018

Shine

Shine 2018

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"Shine" is an animated short film, which pictures a symbolic fight for the Lithuanian language during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This is a poetic ode to Lithuania and its difficult struggle to keep the Lithuanian language alive through the historical changes. Dramatic exile to Siberia, Lithuanian book smuggling, and various movements for independence portrayed through various symbolic metaphors.

2018

Marių Katės

Marių Katės 2015

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There is a bay in the Juodkrantė which is called Amber Bay. But there is no amber anymore. Only the cats. A lot of homeless cats... Are we responsible for those which we had tamed?

2015