Meşhur Kimden Lithuania

The friendship of a doctor Vitolis Laumakys and an engineer Adolfas Morėnas started in 1962, while fixing a broken motorcycle. That very same year they set up an amateur film studio by the name “The Amateur”. Gradually it became one of the most successful amateur film studios in Lithuania, and their second home. In five decades they created almost a hundred of short films. Although Vitolis and Adolfas are still actively working – digitalizing their film archives, “The Amateur” is facing some unpleasent changes.

The story of the film is based on the artist’s home videos and documentary material covering a decade of his creative work. The author presents his apartment as a living space and the main character of the film. By engaging his entire family in the project, he creates a new micro-social model of his home, where they all act according to self-imposed rules. Events that take place are both casual and creative: the living space becomes a stage, routine becomes performance and the other way round, art projects become family entertainment, as well as a radical transformation of the home.

A documentary to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Faculty of Film and Television.

The film is based on a previously untold story of Juozas Paliūnas-Rytas, the leader of the so-called ‘Revival District’ and his dramatic battle.

Young poet remembers the most important scenes from his life as he is arrested during the first days of the war.

Animated documentary telling the story of director's grandparents who were exiled to Siberia during the Soviet era.

A collection of intimate thoughts, read aloud, that become the soundtrack of one of Jonas Mekas beautiful film journals.

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 film about doctor Vaclovas Inta, whose unique worldview, willpower, and persistence saved thousands of years old glacial boulders from brutal destruction, preserving not only their aesthetic value, but also their historical and scientific significance as natural monuments, and preventing them from being turned into construction rubble.

The entire life of singer Beatričė Grincevičiūtė is filled with music. The director sensitively and carefully creates a multifaceted portrait of the performer. In the film, she is both her own most demanding critic and a playful teacher to young children, who affectionately call her "Auntie Music." Surrounded not only by a group of friends, but also by admirers of her talent, she remains modest and simple, wanting as many people as possible to experience the beauty of music and her favorite songs. Only the subtle final shot reminds us that Beatričė experiences the world not with her eyes.

The doomed ancient Greek philosopher Socrates on the last night of his life.

In the spring of 1989, the planting of the oak tree grove of Lithuanian national revival was started in the birthplace of Jonas Basanavičius in the village of Ožkabaliai. Thousands of people from all over Lithuania came to the planting, carrying seedlings and Lithuania's tricolours.

A shy eighth-grader comes across an older girl who is posing naked in an abandoned building. A new friendship offers her a glimpse of the intriguing world of adulthood.

Adela and Benas fall in love over the summer, but their lives pull them apart.

Documentary film showing authentic Lithuanian traditions & rituals during major seasonal festivals: Winter solstice, Mardi Gras, Easter, Midsummer.

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

Simas wakes up - hungover, as usual - only to find his ex-girlfriend at his doorstep. Later on his best friend Vacys comes over as well. The friends suddenly find themselves at the never-ending party of life, in the background of which their loves, ex-loves and present friendships take form and shine through. This is an excerpt from the lives of three young people, a story about indecision and attempts to understand all the rights and wrongs in life.

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.

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.