On prom night, graduate Inga discovers that her boyfriend Kęstas is secretly helping a newcomer. As the night unfolds, the group begins to sense that while they’re celebrating new beginnings, someone is searching for their own path into the future.
If you had the chance to make a film, what would it be? "The Egg" is a documentary about people who have ideas for films - the kind of films they want to make. The characters themselves present their ideas, and some of the stories they tell are immediately brought to life on screen.
Patrick lives in a children’s home. After seeing a parrot in the zoo, he becomes obsessed with it, which makes it even harder to find parents who want to adopt him.
"Back to the Dreamland" is a charming and breath-taking story about the experiences of American Lithuanians during their first visits to the occupied homeland. What they saw and how they felt seems strange and difficult to understand today, since after fleeing Lithuania during the WWII, the refugees maintained a romantic and slightly naive image of their motherland.
There is no city, no golden towers nor golden bells. There are no golden leaves falling in every city every autumn. People have destroyed the golden city... They destroyed it and started building a simple stone one. Nineteen knights of the golden city appeared in one of the backstreets when the fog covering the city split and started raising the vanished golden city.
The film tells about the everyday life of the Vilnius utility company. The main conflict in the film occurs between director Valaitis and chief engineer Butkus, who opposes the director’s working methods.
In "7 Sins" Inčiūraitė asks seven sportswomen living in seven different Lithuanian cities to speak about their opinions on the seven deadly sins – sloth, pride, wrath, gluttony, lust, envy, and greed – from a contemporary perspective. The sportswomen chosen for this film compete in one-on-one sports, a metaphorical duality which expresses the two sides of the women’s identity – the dark and the light. This film is a visualisation of human duality, of the internal personal struggle, constant in both art and life. The documentary paints a portrait of each woman as a contemporary heroine fighting against adversity while at the same time tenaciously working towards their dreams and personal legends.
Liepa and her daughter move to Germany in search of a fresh start, but soon must confront her family’s disapproval and the challenges of metropolitan life.
A short film "Parking Lot" is examining the theme of "emotional hygiene" through the perspective of friendship.
The year 1991. A hot summer night. Lithuania-Belarus border. It is nearly dawn. There are two customs wagons on the roadside. One of them has been burnt down. In the other one, border guards sit in silence. Someone opens the door without knocking.
Based on Italian children's tale
A memory capsule of the Academy as it is to us - skipping lectures, partying and discovering deep connections with fellow students.
In a perpetual loop of representation of the self-designed DIY religion, a thermal imaging video showing close ups of a face, a pole dancer.
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.
“Man-Horse” is a film about an old farmer, Jonas, and his horse. It is an intimate story about the existential relationship between human and animal; it is about solitude and the daily effort to survive. The film's director and Jonas Šalomskas are neighbours in the village of Užuguostis. They have known each other for two decades.
In a few days young girl has important Art Academy revisions. All she does now is work trying to come up with the main idea for her artwork. Despite her own clearly visible distraction there are multiple outside factors hindering the creative process. Only when diving deep into her own mind, ignoring the outside world she is capable to discover and meet the main character. Only then she is able to create it.
The film presents the multifaceted personality of writer Jurgis Kunčinas, his creative workshop; his personal life is discussed openly, without avoiding painful biographical facts.
Julia, a promising twelfth-grade violinist who has suffered emotional abuse from her special education teacher for years, finally dares to fight back when the teacher keeps on her playing before a competition performance. The teacher quickly quells her resistance with threats and pushing, but as she is about to leave the classroom, Julia has an idea. When Julia goes to take the stage, the teacher pushes Julia to go for it.
A documentary film contrasting present-day Lithuania with extracts from a peasant's diary from 1984/85.
13 years ago, they didn't know what it was like to cycle in a harsh country. What it means to be knocked off their feet by winds. What it's like to wade through cold glacial rivers. For Algirdas, Iceland was the start of his travels, which led to trips to Mongolia, Kyrgyzstan, India, Namibia and countless other countries. After 13 years of wandering, he returns to Iceland to find that what once seemed the most spectacular, beautiful and perfect country is still the same. This time, not without a bike, but with the same uncertainty in his heart: after travelling the world, will Iceland still look like a fairy-tale land? Or has it changed into an unrecognisable land, trampled by tourists...? In this adventure documentary, Dagne, who is seeing Iceland for the first time, travels across the island's inner wilderness, searching for those untouched shards of beauty, and occasionally discovering themselves instead.
