Meşhur Kimden Lithuania

Documentary about a hospital ward for children with leukemia in Lithuania.

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.

Will history be able to triumph, and misfortune and loss turn into joy? Everything is possible in the theater.

The first part of "Provincial Anecdotes".

A minor official, Jonas Shatas, saved an apothecary who had fallen into the river. The whole city found out about it. Jonas felt like a hero. It seemed already close to the realization of a dream - marriage to the daughter of the boss. However, Jonas plan was not destined to come true. Having taken the chief, who was floundering merrily in the water, for a drowning man, Jonas decided to stun him before starting to rescue him.

short film by Nathalie Alonso Casale

The year 1992. Lithuania is already independent. One day at her workplace a factory worker Danguole wins the SPECIAL prize . This means she will be entitled to welcome an American press-photographer who is coming to Lithuania in three days. She and her family are to represent the New Lithuania to the world in a photo reportage to be issued. This way the factory worker Danguole becomes a kind of a Lithuanian ambassador. Obviously, everything she owns is dated, soviet-tinged and cannot represent anything. The New Lithuania should be newly fashioned. The problem is... what exactly does the 'newly fashioned' mean?

Tekle and her young daughter, Ema, return from abroad to visit Dalia, Tekle’s mother. When Ema goes out to walk her dog, Dalia, fearing something terrible might happen to her granddaughter, starts looking for her.

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.

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.

"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.

Mystical Lithuanian mythological fairies and the goddess Laima determine the fate of a newly born person. Sometimes it gives a person wealth, health, happiness, sometimes only misery, suffering, failures. Nothing can change Laima's destiny.

On May 1, 2004, about half a dozen children were born in Lithuania. Their arrival in this world coincided with the accession of Lithuania to the European Union. At the initiative of director Arūnas Matelis, the creative group that recorded the birth of many babies returned to some of the heroes every few times. After 20 years, the director Eimantas Belickas together with the author of the script Ramune Rakauskaite chose the brightest, outstanding young people who already have something to say about their first steps upon reaching adulthood. This is a picture of the first EU generation in Lithuania.

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.

Featurette in which Julija Steponaityte and Aistė Diržiūtė reflect on one another's characters from The Summer of Sangaile "in character."

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.

Lithuanian couple goes on a hiking trip in Northern Lapland, Finland. Disconnected from the rest of the world, they get to know much later that the war broke out in the rest of Europe so they are faced with a harsh choice - whether to come back to the burning hometown of Vilnius or try to stay longer and adapt to live in an open wilderness in Lapland?

Film based on Eduardas Cinzas novel Moris Bred’s Notes. After car crash Marius finds himself in the pension house, together with it\s weird inhabitants. Marius recovers his memory but he cannot return to his previous life.

Once a year, a quiet and secluded village in the north-western part of Lithuania comes alive to celebrate Catholic Easter, doing its best to preserve the vanishing ancient tradition of the Guardians of the Cross. With gentle humor observing the preparations of the local community for the vigil and immersing the audience in Easter night, the filmmakers raise questions about the relationship between the sacred and profane in the modern world.

The 19th century in the serf village of Lithuania. Young Severija and violinist Mykoliukas like each other, but their love is challenged by Geišė, a much older, though still lively and imperious, tycoon.