A slow procession on May 9th, 1980. ”Victory Day”. A military parade is marching, a forest of red flags, veterans in suits covered with medals are laying flowers at the foot of the Soviet monuments. The usual Soviet propagandist spectacle. Barysas’s response to the system – and the film that got him suspended for a year from the Society of amateur filmmakers for transgressing the rules on amoral, lewd content.
A film by G. Skvarnavičius about noise pollution.
The wife of a depressed sailor explains what it is like to wait for her husband and then not be able to find any common ground.
A story about the poet Vytautas Mačernis (1921-1944)
Arūnas Matelis' graduation film tells the story of a Lithuanian village in Belarus – Pelesa and this village's luminary Marija Kruopienė.
The understanding that energy neither originates from nothing nor disappears into nothing leads us to explore the concepts of reincarnation, rebirth, and transmigration from philosophical and religious perspectives.
Mary got acquainted with an older man – Donatas, which opens his heart to her. Donatas tried to murder himself for his beloved woman, but the bullet dented a rib and he survived.
The mysterious history and creative legacy of the 1981-1989 group "Sa-Sa." The biggest Lithuanian post-punk music enigma.
The experimental short film "Good Day" transports the audience to one never-ending day of the life of interwar Kaunas, which, like an architectural moment recaptured in time, silently tells about the bygone city full of progress and hope. 24 hours pass in 24 minutes, as if through a keyhole watching and listening to the rhythm of the city boiling around the iconic tower of the Vytautas the Great War Museum. With the help of a physical newspaper specially created for the film, viewers have the opportunity to calmly explore one golden day of the first Republic of Lithuania and evaluate it in the context of today's stormy times.
The film is a poetic meditation on the lifelong journey of one man’s never-ending search for home. We follow Abshalom Ben Shlomo through a day at his home in the Negev desert in Israel, as we travel simultaneously through the cosmos with him as an African American refugee, legendary jazz musician, and spiritual searcher.
Dead zones form as oxygen levels deplete. Suffocation is becoming the new normal. There’s methane bubbling at the sea surface. Our political bearings come bursting in the Nord Stream explosion as the worst natural gas leak ever. Remnants of our defense and health industries lie at the bottom of the sea – in the form of Cold War myths and radioactive waste, which will take decades to recover from. A massive offering of hazard from humans to the environment, hypoxia is devastating for the sea. On display in the Baltic Art Gallery in Newcastle currently (29/11/25)
This film follows the rehearsals of ‘Heroes Square’, staged by the famous Polish theatre director, Krystian Lupa, who works with the text of his favourite writer, Thomas Bernhard, at the Lithuanian National Theatre in 2015.
In a small village, together with tailors, shoemakers, poor musicians and strange wise men, lives the tailor Mendel and his large family... And who could have thought that the reason for happiness or unhappiness for this family could be a simple goat? Here begins an instructive story full of folk wisdom.
Coziness, sincerity, warmth - that's how the music of singer and songwriter Tautvydas Gaudėšius, known as FC Baseball, can be described, and the singer gives his whole heart on stage. Faithful, memorising the lyrics, open to feelings - that's what his fans are like, pulling his songs together during concerts and immersing themselves in his music with all their being. "Telia Play invites you not only to enjoy an FC Baseball concert, but also to see what goes on "behind the scenes" and the thoughts that go through an artist's mind before he enters the stage. It's time to get swept away by the music!
A film about the Skuodas motoball team "Bartuva".
A short film by Aleksandras Digimas and Algirdas Tumas.
