Matilda and the Spare Head 2020
A girl wants to be the smartest person in the world. When all the things she's learned can no longer fit in just one head, her mother buys her a backup one.
A girl wants to be the smartest person in the world. When all the things she's learned can no longer fit in just one head, her mother buys her a backup one.
In Rimtautas Šilinis' film “Lithuania in the Second World War. Film documents” the scenes are edited chronologically from the material stored in the Lithuanian film archives.The historical context of the events establishes the view that the occupation, and at the same time the Second World War, ended for Lithuania in 1993. August 31 after the Soviet army left the country. kinofondas.lt
Documentary film, which, based on the stories of the participants and witnesses of the uprising, the comments and assessments of historians and scientists, reproduces the development of the events of that time with authentic archival material, reveals their tragedy and significance for today's Lithuanian history.
Folk singer O. Pavilionienė tells the story of her life and the tragic 1944.
The film reflects the care of recreation and preservation of the cultural heritage of Vilnius Jews shown by our state and international community. lfc.lt
Almost all Jews in South Africa originally came from Lithuania. As early as the 19th century, a handful of them reached the shores of South Africa. Those who made the trip became successful artists, entrepreneurs and activists, while those who stayed behind were massacred by Nazis and Lithuanian collaborators. The film explores how these bittersweet circumstances have constructed the identities of South African Litvaks. Personal recounts and anecdotes paint the tragedy of the Holocaust, hopes of a new life in South Africa, as well as unique bonds for the future. (Lithuanian Film Center)
The narrative of the film Kaimietis is based on the monologues of two individuals, who do not know each other.
Film about former battles of World War II veteran, machine gunner Danutė Stanelienė.
"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."
The focus of attention in one of the earliest films by a highly prolific documentary director Edmundas Zubavicius is a veterinary clinic in Kaunas; the observation of its daily routine reveals the longing for human sympathy as if yearning for a prayer. Quite a sophisticated relation between the visual and the sound is outweighed by the junctions of poetic film language and realistic shots. They invite to contemplate the relationship between nature and man.
The first Lithuanian puppet-animated sound film
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.
Eimantas and Migle finally decide to move in together. One day Eimantas notices a snake in the toilet. While this confrontation ends without any casualties the atmosphere between the couple changes when the fear of a reptile at their house, slowly turns into the real paranoia.
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.
During harsh winter, two sweethearts dream about moving to the city to look for an easier job, and get away from a poor rural life.
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.
Perfume fragrances with a bewildering force stimulates sexual desire.
A woman lives with her seven-year-old daughter and newborn son in an isolated house in the middle of a mournful landscape; it seems as if winter has encased everything in a bluish, glass-like shell. The nervous woman is filled with a sense of dread and fear, which she tries to sate by taking walks in the woods. Her husband doesn't get home till late, the baby is sick, and she worries about his welfare until she is absolutely frantic. Not understanding his wife's problems, her husband suspects her of exaggerating her mental breakdown. He is unwilling to admit that even his daughter's behavior has altered.