In July 2015, a monument of the socialist period was removed from the centre of Vilnius. For several days, the artist was following the actual taking down process. The action of calibrating the cameras becomes a ritual for the object that was about to leave.
The film examines the development of public narrative, assessment and perception of the artist in different eras. After the death of MK Čiurlionis, an image of a lone genius, the embodiment of the spirit of the nation, is formed.
The film tells the story of the beginnings of big beat and rock music in Lithuania and the times when people had to try to live a full life when everything was forbidden.
Animated short.
Animated short.
The legend about Jurat and Kastytis. It was a long time ago, even when the most important among the gods was the god Perkunas, and the goddess Jurate lived at the bottom of the Baltic Sea in an amber castle. In a small village on the seashore lived a handsome and strong fisherman, Kastytis. Once he caught fish of the royal kingdom with his nets. Jurate sent her mermaids to warn Kastytis not to muddy the Baltic waters and not to frighten the fish...
About the folklore ensemble of elderly village singers.
You are in a gargantuan depot. There is a tool you need. You find it easily based on the directions above the shelves. As soon as you grab it you feel it needs another object to be complete. But it doesn’t stop with the discovery of the second thing. Before you know it, you already have a whole trolley filled with useful things. Yet how useful? And for what? You need to make them make sense.
Arturas Barysas-Baras - film artist, actor collector of music, literature, etc, the leader and vocal of avantgarde music band "And Everything what is Beautiful is Beautiful", Vilnius citizen. Some people thought he was a simple tramp. Others considered him liberty ambassador sending to the world signs of freedom - form creative ideas to western books and music records. He was one of the most vivid soviet Lithuanian underground people who were not afraid to declare freedom when all of its forms were forbidden. But when soviet system collapsed he could not find himself in a world because "freedom" does not like to be put I in any kind of system no matter how liberal it is. Five years after his death Baras' best friends meet to find the answers who was Baras and how has his beloved Vilnius changed being without him.
A film about the fates of a few Lithuanian families.
Watts, granddaughter of Lithuanian immigrants, went to the region of Dainava to make this lovely, elegiac documentary about five lively village grannies who are the last to sing the region’s traditional folk songs.
Twelve-year-old Arianas is preparing for the Lithuanian championship of Standard and Latin American dances with his partner. The couple must understand the world of adults - learn to demonstrate masculinity, feminine seduction and self-selling. But is that enough to win the championship?
Despite turning 30 this year, there are still some myths and legends about the Faculty of Film and Television yet to be uncovered.
Gustoniai is a village located in the northern part of Lithuania. This place also lends its name to a contemporary art project that commenced in 2001. Every three years, artist Darius Ziura shoots a one-minute video portrait of every villager that has agreed to participate in the project. These portraits are then pieced together and edited into a film. With every episode, the project expands it’s time spectrum, thus reflecting on changes both in people’s age and lifestyle, as well as the evolution of social structures and processes, which are affected by the changing socio-political situation in the country. This project also reflects on the rapid changes in filming techniques and editing strategies, presenting the different trends of visual culture of every period.
There's a rising number of drug addicts, thieves and raped teenagers in prisons and colonies.
Lithuanian documentary about bicycles.
Documentary movie by Dailius Dargis about 6th criminal police unit in Lithuania, who were the first ones to fight against Lithuanian mafia in the early 90s.
Documentary about a school for kids from troubled homes.
Two men, an aged farmer and his deaf-mute son, live in a remote area, isolated from civilization. Though sharing the same roof, problems, and sorrows they remain very distant from one another. Their attempts at conversation turn to misunderstanding if not conflict. Father thinks his son is abnormal and childish. Son sees his father as insensitive and crude. Can the two men find their way into understanding one another?
