Meşhur Kimden Lithuania

A colourful, fun children's film about a little girl who observes the strange, funny, interesting and even scary things that are happening around her.

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.

A film about the unknown world of Horses.

In order to see his ex-girlfriend Sofija, Mykolas stages an emergency situation. They have a lot to tell each other, but sometimes it's hard to find proper words, or maybe it's too difficult to talk about our feelings? In this story they say goodbye for the very last time.

A chilling vignette into social pressures at school, the tyranny of status, and the slippery slope of drugs. With bold commitment and subtle nuance, Pagalytė creates a time capsule of Lithuania in the 2000s, leaving a mark on Lithuanian filmmaking for decades to come.

The inhabitants of the Benedictine Monastery in Lithuania have preserved the ancient traditional lifestyle of monks that requires a life of poverty, chastity and obedience. Their daily life filled with silence and rituals are captured in this short film.

A. Sutkus, A. Kunčius, and R. Rakauskas talking about their artwork.

Creative documentary telling the story about nearly extinct Curonian-Latvian community history of a small Lithuanian seaside town named Sventoji, highlighting its multi-cultural dimensions, connections with the Latvian culture and Baltic heritage.

The footage of the film shows Joniškis, Kriukai and Žagarė, places of large Jewish communities before the war. The locals remember the Jews, and tell about the tragedy that befell them during the years of fascist German occupation.

Combing is a meditative act leading to contemplation and introspection. It is an animated self-portrait sculpted in motion and time about memory and relationship with the other. Hair becomes a symbolic thread that connects past and present, memories and the current father-daughter relationship.

Almost all Jews in South Africa originally came from Lithuania. As early as the 19th century, a handful of them reached the shores of South Africa. Those who made the trip became successful artists, entrepreneurs and activists, while those who stayed behind were massacred by Nazis and Lithuanian collaborators. The film explores how these bittersweet circumstances have constructed the identities of South African Litvaks. Personal recounts and anecdotes paint the tragedy of the Holocaust, hopes of a new life in South Africa, as well as unique bonds for the future. (Lithuanian Film Center)

An allusion to the last song of the Kauai 'o'o Bird.

Folk masters carve sculptures and recount memories in memory of the burned Ablinga villagers.

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.

Young man, but already drug addict for a decade, Vytis, after finding himself at the threshold of death was checked in a rehab by his grandparents. Now Vytis is able to piece together his ‘puzzle’ of life. Here it comes down to a choice.

Just 25 years after gaining independence from Russia, Lithuania is facing occupation again. The airspace above the Baltic States is now one of the most dangerous in the world. In the face of the biggest aggression in Europe since the Second World War, this documentary tells a story of people desperately trying to preserve peace against imaginable odds. But the film is not about the war, it is about peace and the people willing to fight to preserve it.