Meşhur Kimden Lithuania

A memory capsule of the Academy as it is to us - skipping lectures, partying and discovering deep connections with fellow students.

A small Lithuanian town. The young engineer Algirdas Araminas completed the construction of the new bridge. On the day the opening was supposed to take place, the bridge was destroyed by German bombs. The war has begun. Algirdas is depressed, he gets down and starts drinking. However, when the Germans began to rebuild the bridge, he agrees to work.

An animated film based on the poem by S. Nėries.

A surrealist etude that doesn’t have a clear narrative, and is courageous in its form, unusual in the context of Lithuanian cinema at the time.

The film is about finding the love of your life and then losing it. It is a story about learning to protect love. The film tells the story of two lovers - a middle-aged married man and a much younger woman. They live with their secret and raise a five-year-old son. Eventually Marta tires of hiding and decides to live apart.

This film is a journey into the depths of Lithuanian lakes, where the underwater beauty, silence and terrain that remained unchanged for thousands of years, are accessible only for those who explore them patiently. The viewer is invited to explore them together with the filmmakers and see the unique underwater world that surprises even those who have been researching lakes and their origin for many years. Four divers share their experiences, their secret discoveries and moods of the four different Lithuanian lakes.

A village is a place to escape to from all urban neuroses. At first sight, the hero finds everything is simple and clear. Even his personal drama (he is nearly divorced from Deima) seems to be solvable.

Sigis is stuck in a circle of daily routine, tries to get out, but always puts it off, because Sigis is stuck in a circle of daily routine.

Two sisters go to a city. It is the place, they strongly believe, that all their dreams will be fulfilled. Because they are young, cheek and nothing can stop them. However, the more they try, the faster their dreams and hopes vanish.

Archaeological exploration encourages the filmmaker to reflect on the flow of time and life.

This is a story about the eternal miracle of life and death. The unfortunate death of a wild hare turns into a remarkable experience for children who find his body and bury it in a sand box. Now buried, the hare’s life fades away and dozens of magical creatures that lived inside him leave his body in search for a new home. The hare’s life ends by merging with nature, but is reborn in the plants and animals around it. This fairy-tale for children encourages us to think about what death is.

„Every city has his own Shanghai!“ „Shanghai Banzai“– it‘s an ironic short documentary about an old and poor district nearby Vilnius city centre called Snipiskes, which is also known as Shanghai. Film exposes a paradoxical situation where countryside with its multicultural (Lithuanians, Russians, Polish, Gypsies) community exists in the very centre of Vilnius. Also film tries to find out the origin of district’s nickname Shanghai. Film portraits inhabitants of Vilnius Shanghai, who have their own rules, loves, habits and sins. Most of them live in their Past still remembering their youth. Now modern skyscrapers exchange old wooden houses and nobody knows what is waiting for “characters” of Shanghai.

Soviet Lithuania, 1975. Fishermen kiss their wives goodbye. They are going off to sea to catch fish on the faraway Atlantic coasts of Africa. The boat is going to be their home for the next five months.

A son picks his father up from a psychiatric hospital and takes him home to his grandparents. The father tries to revive their relationship, but the son, like the grandparents, is indifferent to him. They spend the day together.

"Lithuania is a Force" is a long-term documentary about the life and historical events of informal youth in Lithuania in 1984–1992: dissident rallies, persecution of the KGB, punk rock, protest concerts. Rock musicians testify to this. The documentary includes songs by the groups „Genocidas Raudonajam Interventui“, „WC“, „Už Tėvynę“, „Hidroelektra“, „Foje“.

It seems that in high school, Gedas, Edma, Arnas and Irma were an inseparable foursome of romantics who gathered on an old barge. Now they are no longer children, but they are not yet grown up.

Two teenagers are very keen on making love with a girl. The girl cares about money. The boys dont have any. Dissapointed they turn to the streets and wind-up in the middle of an armed robbery. The teenage boys wait for the robbers and steals their loot. Happy they rush back to the girl. Without knowing what the bags of the loot contain.

We see the last exhibition by Benas Sarka that presents the beached things that are turned into "The Birds Pecking Your Eyes ". Benas Sarkas is the avant-garde, the artist; the man and the bird. When asked who he is, Benas' answer sounds like the quote from Shakespeare's play - "I am the mortal composition of clay and water." It is hard to catch any signs of daily routine in his life or to listen to a philosophical monologue. The creation is the only way of communication. Only the story about the way he creates can draw the portrait of Benas.

BOS means Best Opposite Sex or the best representative of the opposite sex in the language of cynologists or felinologists. Most often BOS become female animals, as males are Best of Breed (BOB). The characters of the film are women. When Rasa's family broke up, cows and dogs became the way of life. When Vaiva's body "disintegrated", the hobby cats remained. Only Vaiva's hands and feet became her husband Konstantin. Dissimilar stories of two similar women with children, cows, dogs, and cats.

This is the first documentary about the singer Marijonas Mikutavičius. Marijonas Mikutavičius, who is celebrating his fiftieth birthday this year, has been on stage since he was 18 and his song "Trys milijonai (Three millions)" has been called Lithuania's second national anthem. In the film, director Eimantas Belickas allows the viewer to be with Marijonas in his intimate surroundings, without the mask. As one of the country's most popular singers, Marijonas is a man, a father, a Lithuanian citizen, just like many of us. The viewer can see this clearly in the film, but at the same time it becomes clear that creativity makes the singer a unique personality.