Meşhur Kimden Lithuania

In a world where a woman is imprisoned in time and a man riding a pig hopes to free her - everything is possible and there is nothing to be surprised about.

Coziness, sincerity, warmth - that's how the music of singer and songwriter Tautvydas Gaudėšius, known as FC Baseball, can be described, and the singer gives his whole heart on stage. Faithful, memorising the lyrics, open to feelings - that's what his fans are like, pulling his songs together during concerts and immersing themselves in his music with all their being. "Telia Play invites you not only to enjoy an FC Baseball concert, but also to see what goes on "behind the scenes" and the thoughts that go through an artist's mind before he enters the stage. It's time to get swept away by the music!

Hilda Spalviene, a resident of Šakininkai village, is a German from Klaipėda region. The cheerful old woman, who draws a cigarette with a mouthpiece, recalls her life: before the war she lived in Germany with her husband, after the war she was exiled to Siberia. Later, she was able to go back to Germany, but she returned to Šakininkai - to the land of her parents. Although the film focuses on Hilda's story, it also subtly invites us to consider the issues of multiethnicity and national identity of the inhabitants of Klaipėda Region. Hilda, who speaks with an accent, stubbornly calls herself a local: she was born here and is ready to spend her last days here.

Early in the morning, the children start their journey to kindergarten, hand-in-hand with their parents. There is no shortage of activities for the little ones here - under the supervision of the kindergarten staff, they play sports, have health checks, dance, sing and play, and lunch and bedtime are not forgotten.

A shopper walks through what was then the largest department store in Lithuania - VCUP (Vilnius Central Department Store) and asks the sales staff to smile.

In a closed room. A man freed by drops of water from a thick layer of plaster also frees his colleagues. Great! No?! It was better for the plastered.

A film about the Skuodas motoball team "Bartuva".

A short film by Aleksandras Digimas and Algirdas Tumas.

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.

A micro-opera based on the novel "The Glass Shroud" by American writer Sylvia Plath and biographical elements. A young girl, reflecting on society and her emotional state, begins to turn towards self-destruction

In a quirky little town in the sky lives an even smaller, chubby protagonist of the story – Kodleduk. This little man's obsession has possessed the whole city. Nothing goes unnoticed in Kodleduk's tiny studio, as he records everything around. All sounds and actions go straight to organic machines created by his teeny, nimble fingers. They encapsulate the town's spirit, and Kodleduk never feels lonely in his tiny apartment.

Deividas, a journalism student with social anxiety disorder, goes into the streets to interview random people.

When picking up rubbish, one is plunged into memories of situations in which one felt helpless. Guilt overwhelms him.

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?

The documentary „Chodakowski Sisters“ tells the story of two bright twentieth century Lithuanian interwar women. Polish countesses sisters Chodakowski – President Antanas Smetona’s wife Sofia and Prime Minister Juozas Tubeli’s wife Jadwiga – in their youth consciously chose Lithuanian identity and devoted their entire lives to the creation of the First Republic of Lithuania.

The film crew, as if being detectives try to understand how their country became independent about a hundred years ago. Starting from facts and a little dull talks with historians, the search of information (knowledge) takes them to Paris where they discover even more philosophical questions related not only to the independence, but as well to the concept of freedom in general. “We have started making a movie about the freedom conference of 1919 and the role of Lithuanians in it. But making this movie we have stumbled upon lots of ideas. We have started asking ourselves, what is freedom, and what is the difference between the territorial and personal, or self-freedom?”

Trilogy combines documentary, acting and animation to tell three stories: effects of various forces on human beings; the eating habits of different personalities; pathetic and omnipresent attempts of people to seek an immortality.

“Sisters” is sensitively and beautifully told story of two families of Pomerancai and Petrauskai who were scattered by brutal events of The World War II and difficult, unexpected challenges of life which wounded their destinies. Story focuses on rescue of the famous violinist Danute Pomerancaitė who born in Kaunas Ghetto. Vilnius Jewish Public Library

A film by Arturas Barysas, one of Lithuania's "counter-culture" avant-garde pioneers.