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- DirectorKristina BuozyteStarsGabija JaraminaiteMarius JampolskisValda BickuteFollowing a traumatic experience, Gaile, a speech therapist, is incapable of feeling any emotion. However, while preparing a video presentation for a scientific conference, she sees herself on screen and is surprised to find suppressed sensations returning to her, primarily feelings of aggression. Gaile decides to try an experiment. With the help of a man and his video camera she stages various provoking situations and shows the result to those involved. Throughout the experience she is unable to perceive the value of normal emotions, or even the possibility that someone may have feelings for her.
- DirectorIgnas MiskinisStarsDainius GavenonisNeringa VarnelyteJuozas GaizauskasThe film tells a story about striking affair in the eccentric world of public relations, advertising, commercial and TV. It's a black comedy about hypertrophied image in today's society.
- DirectorJonas TrukanasStarsArturas AleksejevasAlgirdas DainaviciusValerijus JevsejevasColorful life of 19th century Lithuanian country side, is what Jurgis experiences when he meets a book smuggler.
- DirectorArunas ZebriunasStarsVaiva MainelyteGediminas GirdvainisRegimantas AdomaitisA musical about the victory of love over the trickery of the Devil. A little devil Pinciukas is expelled from Hell and arrives to Baltaragis mill. In exchange for the mill owner's soul and the promise to have his daughter Jurga as a bride he helps the man with his work.
- DirectorArunas ZebriunasStarsLeonid ObolenskySaulius SipaitisDoloresa KazragyteLithuania, 1977. Memories of childhood, adolescence, and first love in a small provincial town, shown through complexity of human relations at this periodical film.
- DirectorIgnas MiskinisStarsDainius GavenonisJulia-Maria KöhlerJonas AntanelisA road movie, buddy picture and romance rolled into one, Low Lights pivots on a love triangle that evolves when two men and a woman take to ritual night driving. Transforming cold urban space into something charged with excitement, the drives provide the hope the trio so desperately needs.
- DirectorGiedre ZickyteIt was the year 1984 when a group of architects decided to organize a one night music band as a New Year's party joke in Kaunas, Lithuania. The joke proved to be so good that rumors about the new exciting rock band spread from lips to lips and soon their intellectual circus grew into the Rock Marches - massive events involving thousands of people - that transformed into the big meetings for Lithuanian Independence later named the Singing Revolution. This is the story about the people who raised their independence with the smiles and songs regardless of the danger of the situation.
- DirectorGiedre BeinoriuteStarsIrmantas BacelisElzbieta DegutyteRolandas KazlasSoviet eighties. A little town in the periphery. After his parents' divorce, 11-year-old Rolanas and his dad move in next door to same-aged Emilija. Friendship is born between the kids, however, shyness or fear of opening up makes them communicate through the wall, sitting in their own balconies, or through a socket connecting their flats. Emilija's parents also appear to be on the verge of divorce. The children discover common topics, activities. Unfortunately, a nearly tragic accident prevents Emilija to go to the balcony. This encourages both children to set out for a "real" date.
- DirectorGerry PavloffStarsAnzela AleksandrovicIngrida BertasiutePolina Borisova"5 Day Scam" is a situational comedy about a mix of nutty people that come together in an environment of peculiar provincial show business of a developing country, each of them craving for fame and riches. Vilnius, the capital of a small country on the outskirts of Europe welcomes Eros Giannakakis, a "rich and famous" producer from Greece, battling his middle age crises. He comes seeking new talent for a European TV show. At the casting of local dilettante musicians Eros meets young "wanna be a singer" Egle. She is neither the most talented nor the best, but she takes his breath away and that is what counts. While Eros is willing to do anything to win her over there is a bunch of players each scheming his own plot against Eros. Local TV producer Liepa is trying to seduce the Greek, her strange irrational assistant Julian is seeking the rich and famous producer's attention, Egle's wimpy boyfriend Andrius is ready to fight Eros for Egle, and then there is the Greek producer's very temperamental Russian wife Natali!
- DirectorMaris MartinsonsStarsValda BickuteKostas SmoriginasDalia MicheleviciuteMentally ill young woman Valda convinces herself that a boy growing up in an orphanage is her child. Following the footsteps of a thousands Lithuanians, she immigrates to Ireland to earn money to save him. "Loss" portrays beauty and tragedy in the human heart.
- DirectorMarius A. MarkeviciusStarsSarunas MarciulionisArvydas SabonisRimas KurtinaitisThe incredible story of the 1992 Lithuanian basketball team, whose athletes struggled under Soviet rule, became symbols of Lithuania's independence movement, and - with help from the Grateful Dead - triumphed at the Barcelona Olympics.
- DirectorJonas VaitkusStarsSaulius BalandisBrigita BublytePovilas StankusJonas Vaitkus's patriotic war film paints a poignant portrait of Lithuania's ten-year struggle against Soviet occupation and casts new light on folk hero Juozas Luksa-Daumantas, the legendary partisan who sought to bring Lithuania's plight to the West. Set in 1950, Utterly Alone powerfully depicts the bloody and brutal treatment meted out by Soviet Russia, aided by Lithuanian collaborators, as it systematically hunts down and kills resistance fighters. Reminiscent of the mood of Schindler's List, it pays tribute to the courage and fortitude of Daumantas and his fellow fighters as they battle valiantly against the might of Stalin's empire. Shot in atmospheric black-and-white, Utterly Alone has a documentary feel that only serves to bolster its starkness and the hopelessness of the partisans' cause. Utterly Alone is preceded by a short explanatory documentary.
- DirectorVaidas LekaviciusStarsIlona BalsyteDarius AuzelisAurimas MeliesiusThe story of four free-spirited musicians who try the way to fame paved by producer Leo.
- DirectorAsta EinikyteStarsIeva KuryteAndrius KaniavaDarius AuzelisDorothy - a little Kansas girl reads a magical book and is spirited away into the Magical Land by Wicked Witch Gingema. She experiences many adventures trying to go back home to her family.
- DirectorRaimundas BanionisStarsAugustas SavialisGabija JaraminaiteJurate OnaityteRebellious Lithuanian teenagers in early 1970s are immensely influenced by Western culture, especially Radio Luxembourg, the Rolling Stones and Woodstock. After taking part in a hippie camp at the seaside, problems start to ensue.
- DirectorAlgirdas AraminasStarsAndrius KarkaRuta StaliliunaiteGediminas KarkaArunas, an 18 year old high-school graduate from the port town, is going through a crisis. He is stressed by the school routine and his friend Benas who had been earlier expelled from the school for trivial reasons, suggests he find a job.
- DirectorKristijonas VildziunasStarsAndrius BialobzeskisJurga JutaiteMykolas VildziunasA man trying to get away from it all finds both love and conflict in the woods in this offbeat drama from Lithuania.
- DirectorRaimundas BanionisStarsEleonora KorisnaiteSaulius BalandisIngeborga DapkunaiteThis contemporary urban drama tells of a love story, of a girl with a very strong character who fights against the social prejudices, and a young man who wins her heart, and their wedding.
- StarsVytautas TomkusVaiva MainelyteAlgis MatulionisThis movie is a story of the legendary Lithuanian peasant- Tadas Blinda (1846-1877), a Lithuanian folk hero of the 19th century often compared to Robin Hood. He is shown as a leader of serfs battling and ridiculing the Polish landlords and the Russian Empire that governed Lithuania, Lithuania after the law about the end of serfdom. The movie is a an intense drama with a mix of cruelty and love, comic situations and jokes, heroism and treason. In the first part of the movie the landlord's daughter returns from St. Peterburg with lots of positive ideas in her head, willing to find a more human way to co-live with their peasants but her family isn't that much open-minded and liberal. Tadas gets a message that his father died while working in the landlord's fields but he can't attend the funeral because he's ordered to give a carriage ride to his "master's" family. The horses "get frightened" in the middle of the river and the carriage breaks. Tadas Blinda goes under the punishment. Fellow peasants are told to whip him under the threat of weapons. Reluctant at first, they still obey. The night comes, Tadas recovers from injuries, gathers a group of loyal peasants and starts his revenge...
- DirectorDonatas UlvydasStarsMantas JankaviciusAgnia DitkovskyteTatyana LyutaevaA romance blooms between a noblewoman and a common man amid a peasant revolt against the brutal Russian army
- DirectorAlgimantas PuipaStarsValentinas MasalskisSteven BerkoffLiubomiras LauceviciusA man who was imprisoned by the Nazis later writes of his experience, then he is imprisoned by the Soviets, just as oppressive as the Germans.
- DirectorGytis LuksasStarsGiedrius KielaEgle MikulionyteOksana BorbatThe story of the generation who lived through the entire Soviet period is told through the main character: his childhood spent in a village, true friendship, work in Soviet Klaipeda, thrilling eroticism, and a final, fatal love.
- DirectorKristijonas VildziunasStarsElzbieta LatenaiteAndrius BialobzeskisMargarita BroichEthnic Lithuanian father and daughter Vladas and Ruta were separated during the events of WWII when Ruta was just a child--she ended up with her mother--and have not seen each other since. Vladas remained in what in June 1961 is Soviet-occupied Lithuania; Ruta lives in Chicago. They have kept in touch via letters, using fake names to protect themselves from the potentially-prying eyes of the Communists. They only spoke on the telephone for the first time a few months ago. As Ruta is studying in Hamburg, she and Vladas arrange to meet in the west sector of Berlin, this meeting their first since the war. Ruta and her friend Aukse, also a Lithuanian-American, will stay at a pension in the west sector, while Vladas will stay in a consulate housing compound in the east sector, housing arranged by "comrade" Juozas Aleksandraviius, then cross over to the west sector for the meeting. After they both arrive in Berlin, they find that the geopolitical situation of the day in the city is not as free as they thought, which may jeopardize their long-awaited reunion. In addition, Ruta's presence at the pension may jeopardize the plans of some of the landlady's friends who are trying to sneak out of Berlin without the Stasi's knowledge.
- DirectorAlgimantas PuipaStarsEgle JaselskyteJanina LapinskaiteAndrius PaulaviciusAt the end of the 19th century, proud but poor fisherman Jurgaitis gets imprisoned for a crime he did not commit. His beautiful daughter Elze is sent to live with rich German merchant Michael. There she falls for his son Endrik.
- DirectorArunas MatelisAudrius StonysThe film features an incredibly low angel's flight over Lithuania.
- DirectorVaidotas DigimasStarsDavid EllisBritish artist and cultural historian David Ellis first came to Lithuania almost twenty years ago. Driven by a curiosity about post-Soviet culture, he has continued to visit frequently over the years. In this film, Ellis travels through Lithuania's towns, meeting people and discussing how twenty years of independence reflect on their lives. This journey documents Ellis' encounters with present-day Lithuania and compares it to his early experiences, providing a capture of the tempo and level of success of the transition.
- DirectorAgne MarcinkeviciuteStarsBirute MarGediminas StorpirstisJurate VilunaiteThe author Jurga Ivanauskaite (1961-2007) was considered a pioneer of contemporary Baltic literature well beyond the borders of Lithuania. Her work deals intensively with the tension between religion, sexuality and emancipation. Film documents and interviews serve to reconstruct the life of this independent and willful woman - from her childhood to her artistic breakthrough as a companion of the Lithuanian rock and punk scene, but also depicting her spiritual side, which brought her all the way to India, where she turned to Buddhism. She is shown as fighting for the Dalai Lama and a "free Tibet", shown as a literary mind, but first and foremost she is shown as a woman who stood bravely in the face of inconvenience, pain and inner demons.
- DirectorSimonas AskelaviciusEdita KabaraiteRicardas MarcinkusStarsVaida ButyteAgne GrudyteDarius GumauskasThe plot centers around four couples that meet for Valentine's Day, and one loner, a doctor named Valentine, unsuccessfully trying to find someone to spend Valentine's day with.
- DirectorKristina BuozyteStarsMarius JampolskisJurga JutaiteRudolfas JansonasA neuron-transfer scientist experiments with the thoughts of a comatose young woman.
- DirectorJonas MekasStarsJonas MekasAdolfas MekasPola ChapelleFilmmaker Jonas Mekas creates an elegiac diary of a trip to his home country of Lithuania.
- DirectorEmilis VelyvisStarsDonatas IvanauskasMindaugas PapinigisAndrius PaulaviciusZERO is an 0 sucking in a young deserter, a casino victim and three heroin brothers. That is a destiny, a mixture of objectives and desires of heroes. That is a lifestyle balancing on the edge - bullets, numbers and needles.
- DirectorEmilis VelyvisStarsZemyna AsmontaiteDonatas IvanauskasKestutis Stasys JakstasWhat would you get if you mix a gangster film and a soap opera? "Zero 2" is a crazy twister of criminal romance and sexy violence that just might laugh you to death.
- DirectorRomas ZabarauskasStarsEbeneezer Nii SowahBeata TiskevicSarunas ZenkeviciusLuke is an up-and-coming DJ from an affluent New York family with a Lithuanian father and an African-American mother. When Luke hears from an estranged grandmother in Lithuania, he defies his parents and decides to visit this far-away country, flying straight to the capital city Vilnius. He falls in love with the city, a rebellious girl called Marta, and the local music scene - the beatmakers - promoted by an aggressive gay manager, Andy. Luke's grandma's connections get him a deal with the municipality to become the manager of a new nightclub, and he takes up the challenge... but the deal turns out to be poisoned, forcing Luke to rebel in ways he never imagined.
- DirectorRomas ZabarauskasStarsMarius RepsysVilma KutaviciuteKurtisCreated as a reaction to the state's homophobia in Lithuania, a short film "Porno Melodrama" tells an original story about the dangers of love. Jonas enjoys his life with his boyfriend Matas, but he wants to emigrate from homophobic Lithuania. In order to earn money, Jonas accepts to star in a porno film with his ex-girlfriend Akvile. But what if some unrequited love still lingers in Akvile's heart?..
- DirectorRobert MullanStarsMarija KorenkaiteRokas ZubovasArturas AleksejevasBased on a true story, the love affair between a Lithuanian genius Mikalojus Konstantinas Ciurlionis and Sofija, the woman he adored.
- DirectorMaris MartinsonsStarsValda BickuteLeonardas PobedonoscevasKostas SmoriginasIn one of the post-soviet countries, where sexual taboos are still ruling the society and strong traditions of Catholicism and homophobia are alive, family members and couple of friends come together to celebrate Christmas Eve.
- DirectorSaulius DrungaStarsToma VaskeviciuteSeverija JanusauskaiteGiedre GiedraityteProvincial girl tries to understand and get in touch with world of a big town. With world that suddenly shows unpredictable dark sides of its own.
- DirectorAlgimantas PuipaStarsJanina LapinskaiteGiedre GiedraityteElze GudaviciuteMonika, a middle-aged wealthy woman, goes through a marriage crisis with her younger husband Linas. A car accident leads Monika to meeting three young girls, Kristina, Egle and Gitana, who happen to be ex-prostitutes extradited from Germany. The lady and the girls settle down in a country mansion, to form a relationship that will change their lives forever.
- DirectorGytis LuksasStarsArunas BulikaEgle GabrenaiteEugenijus IgnataviciusA story about a teenagers confrontation with the adult world, in poetic and slightly melancholic mood. Benas is not an adult yet but not a child any more while his town is visited by new interesting people who change his life: events make him grown up.
- DirectorMykolas VildziunasStarsTadas GrynValentin NovopolskijToma VaskeviciuteA young man's confusion in present times. The protagonist is looking for answers to questions that are relevant to many of his peers, coming of age in between a nostalgic socialist childhood and ideas pushed by a young democracy, relentlessly rushing forward.