The director shows us an unofficial Lithuania, an indestructible village, old traditions and impressive faces. In the films of Shablevičius, the village, the land, the lonely tree standing outside are often filmed in winter, when everything gets the shade of a fairy tale and a miracle, and a rider on the road brings an unexpected message. The old mythical rural worldview seems to come alive in the eyes of the audience.
"The film Energy in Lithuania is a documentary study of an industrial installation (an electric power plant), which includes conversations with people who have worked there. Although the power plant is functioning, it has now become like a museum of industrial thought. Still, the livelihood of thousands of people depend on it. It will not be easy to reform industrial society. The biggest challenge is to find a credible intellectual replacement for positivist industrial romanticism." - Deimantas Narkevičius
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.
Animated short.
This “naive” film, as the author himself calls it, is a kind of confession of a young man. Driven by an inexplicable impulse, high school graduates ran away from a formal museum tour.
A documentary film about Mėnuo Juodaragis festival.
A young couple is coming back after their honeymoon. On the way home they find themselves in many unexpected situations that are possible to get out of only if you love each other a lot. It is a short film about love. Have you ever seen such one? Sure exactly one like this?
Another short film montage.
The centerpiece of A. Grikevicius's film is Tomas Petreikis, the chief engineer of the machine factory in Kaunas F. Dzeržinskis. Rather than creating a regular, conjunctural narrative about the hero of socialist work that exceeds production norms, the director captures another personality of his film's hero. After work, Tom is an entertaining dancer, teacher and contest judge. "Construction and dancing? No, they don't not have any relation," T. Petreikis answers the question posed by the journalist. However, the film observes the parallels that reveal the precision of the constructor-dancer, the perfection of the goal, both by controlling the work of the machine tools and by teaching pairs of dancers to rotate on the parquet, imply another answer.
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.
A miniature movie, kids inhabit the landscape and communicate through the river, the sky, the air.
Gytė is trying to savour the last days of the summer. Her parents are very tense and their behaviour raises many questions, the answers to which she starts seeking on her own.
The film is about journalist Daiva Žeimytė-Bilienė's attempt to reveal not only the political and social portrait of Professor Vytautas Landsbergis, but also to get to know him as a person - his personal values, his attitudes, and the challenges of his past and future.
In 2023 Lithuanian film professionals from different cinema backgrounds took part in a survey about self-validation in their career path. Their responses were shown to film art students at the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre. Seeing the lived experiences of the professionals, students begin to reflect on their own feelings.
This is a one-woman show. With her monologues, Kazimiera Kymantaitė conveys the reality of the lifestyle of a socialist society and the relationships between people, revealing the image of a woman who has dedicated herself to her work.
It is a film about a journey of five Lithuanians in Georgia, through Tusheti National Park. The journey brings together five complete strangers, the hardships they have to endure, and the beauty of Georgia: forested mountains that never get tired of being looked at, majestic valleys and roaring mountain rivers.
The protagonists of the film – the fishermen’s widows of a town on the Curonian Spit. Even though women’s lives were marked by a painful loss, one by one and all together they firmly walk on the lagoon’s coast. Or they go fishing. Sensitive, slow and poetic reflection about the fragility of fate and human strength.
Sofija, longing for connection, meets Adomas during a night out in Vilnius. As they walk home together, both quietly lost in their own worlds, they search for closeness without saying too much. During the journey, the portrait of a young, carefree person unfolds.
Biographer Alexander Vasin embarks on a long and winding archival journey, examining the child of the Great Pohulianka, the fearless war pilot, an exceptionally talented writer Roman Kacew, who wrote under the pseudonym Romain Gary.
