Call It by Its Real Name 1973
Vito-Vilūnas' activities in Moscow and interwar Lithuania, the fight against the Nazis and his death in 1942.
Vito-Vilūnas' activities in Moscow and interwar Lithuania, the fight against the Nazis and his death in 1942.
The focus of attention in one of the earliest films by a highly prolific documentary director Edmundas Zubavicius is a veterinary clinic in Kaunas; the observation of its daily routine reveals the longing for human sympathy as if yearning for a prayer. Quite a sophisticated relation between the visual and the sound is outweighed by the junctions of poetic film language and realistic shots. They invite to contemplate the relationship between nature and man.
"To make this film was a very old dream. The shooting started in 1988, before gaining the independence. Only being of father Stanislovas was something incredible these days. Unlocked doors from his barn where were stored priceless reliquaries, books. Not locked church with artworks inside. Unconditional trust... It impressed not only me." - Audrius Stonys.
Adela and Benas fall in love over the summer, but their lives pull them apart.
What is the essence of romance? Romantic Ballad explores the days of the cat Micius. Are his days romantic? He believes that they are.
An American family goes on a NATO mission to Lithuania, where the teenage boy forms an indie rock band with a local child.
Travellers cycle across Iceland.
The film abstractly explores the crowd as a changing form composed of numerous details. Movement, density, and rhythm transform people into lines, flows, and patterns in which individuality dissolves into a common form. The crowd is perceived here not as a character in the narrative, but as a visual phenomenon, constantly changing and reforming.
Christmas Eve, the Soviet era, everyone is working. At the State Opera and Ballet Theatre, the longest performance, Swan Lake, is coming to an end, in which Rūta dances a swan in the corps de ballet.
A documentary film dedicated to the 35th anniversary of Lithuania's independence, our nation scattered across the world, and our shared path to freedom.
Animated short.
A sculptor makes sculptures and leaves them in the park.
Moving people from homesteads to settlements. Families are filmed and interviewed in their old backyards just before they move out.
Bogdanas is one of the juvenile boys held in a closed socialisation centre for various offences. All the boys are counting down the days until their summer holidays so they can go free, but Bogdanas wants to stay here and refuses to leave.
A documentary about art in a closed society - prison art. The protagonists, who are serving their sentences for various crimes, reveal their worldview.
The film tells the story of the first steps of Lithuanian cinema.
A screen version of Vaitkus' own performance with the same name, based on Bronius Kutavicius's music and Sigitas Geda's verse.