Meşhur Kimden Lithuania

It’s all about forbidden. Fruit.

A documentary film about childish games.

Travellers cycle across Iceland.

A year-long journey during which the camera observes how life develops in various parts of the country, in towns and villages on both sides of the Dniester River. The main character of the film is Moldova—picturesque and unique, happy and sad—like some other post-Soviet states, it is a country of contrasts. Often called a land of fertility and magic, it is even more often misunderstood, and for some people it does not even exist.

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.

Fentanyl, the most popular street drug in Vilnius, is merciless to anyone who tries it. A film director attempts a noble mission. He discovers a group of drug addicts roaming the streets and begins to visit them consistently, with a vision to save at least one of them, even though they all have HIV, hepatitis and other diseases.

A film about Jonas Kaušpadas, a teacher at the Eight-year-old school of the Viru district of Estonia, who came to Estonia to get acquainted with Estonian culture, bring Lithuanian and Estonian people closer together.

What would you choose: live in reality or a fantasy world where you are the hero?

t 1/2 continues the topic of post-human mythology and fictional visual meditation about contemporary science from future archaeology perspective. t 1/2 is the symbol of the term ‘half-life’, commonly used in nuclear physics to describe how quickly unstable atoms undergo radioactive decay, or how long stable atoms survive. t 1/2, shown as a large-scale video installation that consists of architecture envisioned by the artist through remote sensing 3D scans and the mirrored ceiling, traverse an epic landscape of geography.

A self-filmed road movie about quest for lost faith. Jokubas Vilius Turas is in desperation to find strength and courage in himself to overcome hardships, frustration and self-destruction. On the dangerous and physically exhausting walk from Lithuania to Spain, he captures what is happening around and inside him on video.

The poet Marcelijus Martinaitis talks about his life in his homestead, about the necessity to plant cucumbers, onions, tomatoes in the garden in the springtime, which he brought from his youth in Paserbencis, and about the way in which he feels that he is the creator and the ruler of this world.

Lithuania's oldest factory breathes life into the next generation of workers and the clay bricks they toil to produce. The spaces, their textures and sounds, transport us to an uncertain, mysterious dimension. The decrepit factory, the Sisyphean labour it extracts, presents us with our own mortality. Like bricks we are but clay.

This is a movie, where adventure overlaps with existential questions, and the sorrow overcomes the dark humor. Characters of the movie- kingly names, but in dull souls of the slaves. They are freaks, obsessed with various complexes and manias. Weak, puny people that face the most unusual, paradoxical situations, where they never end up as winners. They don’t take up what the Fortune offers them. They don’t change the world. However….. Under circumstances, they get the opportunity.

Thomas is popular among women, but can not tie a normal relationship and love.

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.

An artistic documentary movie about Lithuanian ethnoculture. In "Semme" the ethnoculture is brought to light through the beauty of nature, folklore and believes of ancestors. The main emphasis is on the Baltic heritage. Three main characters of "Semme" are eager to preserve the old ethnocultural traditions: cartographer Tadas Sidiskis, pagan priest Jonas Trinkunas, folk craftsmen Algirdas Verseckas. The main purpose of "Semme" is to reveal the alternative views to the old traditions and the national identity. Movie will show trip to old forest, pagan customs and offerings, medieval crafts.

A documentary is based on authentic witness stories and unique archival shots. The main heroes of the film, the then 20-year-olds, after 25 years, remember the events of January 1991, which led to their further fate. The stories are illustrated by the footage stored in personal archives and not yet seen before, which reveals the events of the night of January 13 and the eve of January. In 1991, the filmed amateur shots speak witnesses of the events at the TV tower and the Radio and Television Committee. As a result of the injuries, they testify directly from the hospital wards about the events of the seizure of the most important objects of the country.

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.

Once upon a telenovela, the Marias taught their viewers to dream bigger, cry harder, and wait for endless love – now, the women return to ask, ‘Who wrote the script?’