About the movie
While shooting “Flying over blue field” we lived in Bir�tonas sanatorium hotel. I was watching treatment procedures. People were plunging into bubble, mud and mineral water baths. They were going circles singing, were standing under cold water spouts. All this seemed like a sacred ritual, that frees from scurf of life. They were naked, like just born, without any signs of standing in society. Movie – silent impression about tired people “harbour”..(taken from his website www.stonys.lt)Read More »
Lithuania
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Audrius Stonys – Uostas AKA Harbour (2001)
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Audrius Stonys – Neregiu zeme AKA Earth of the Blind (2001)
1991-2000Audrius StonysDocumentaryLithuaniaShort FilmAbout the movie
– Film was formed from at least three single ideas. Story about cow which is being lead to butchery. Second story is about simple joys, about climbing hill and going down by disabled carriage. Third story is about blind. All these stories have joined intuitively in somekind of irrational way. Big eyes of cows mingled blind people eyes.(taken from his website stonys.lt)Read More » -
Audrius Stonys – Open the door to him, who comes (1989)
1981-1990Audrius StonysDocumentaryLithuaniaShort FilmAbout the movie
– To make this film was very old dream. Shooting was started in 1988, it was before gaining 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. (taken from his website stonys.lt)Read More » -
Audrius Stonys – Fedia: Three Minutes After the Big Bang (1999)
Documentary1991-2000Audrius StonysLithuaniaShort FilmAbout the movie
Fedia – man living in little yellow house next to Gariūnai marketplace. To him life seems simple, completely transparent and without any hidden truths. Cosmic problems are far away from him. Next to him is world, where lives astrophysics manipulating with numbers, which are so big that do not have names. These two worlds exist next to each other..(taken from his website stonys.lt)Read More » -
Audrius Stonys & Arunas Matelis – Skrydis per Lietuva arba 510 sekundziu tylos AKA Flight Over Lithuania Or 510 Seconds Of Silence (2000)
1991-2000Arunas MatelisAudrius StonysDocumentaryLithuaniaShort Film“Flight over Lithuania” was made for the international exhibition EXPO 2000 in Hanover, Germany. The film features an incredibly low angel’s flight over the dunes of Nida, Trakai castle, the lakes of Auktaitija (Highlands), the roofs of the Old Town of Vilnius and the fantastically beautiful church steeples. It’s like a mystical gliding just above the treetops, meadows covered by early morning mist, as well as the narrow streets of Vilnius.Read More »
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Raimundas Banionis – Vaikai is Amerikos Viesbucio aka Kids From American Hotel (1990)
1981-1990CultDramaLithuaniaRaimundas BanionisMovie about the Lithuanian teenagers of the 1970s
The movie is interesting to watch as it shows the young teenagers of the soviet Lithuania in the 1970s who cherish ideas of hippies, dream of Woodstock, Rolling Stones and try to avoid bad things brought by the Soviet system.
The teenagers manage to have different lifestyle, stand for the ideas of the independent Lithuania, and freedom to listen and avoid traps of the KGB.Read More »
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Ruslan Korostenskiy – The Woman Sun (2013)
2011-2020DramaLithuaniaRuslan KorostenskiyWOMAN SUN tells the romantic story of two sisters who have left the hustle and bustle of the city. Somewhere beyond the noises of the city, they both seek happiness, but each one in her own way.
The film won the World Premiere Feature prize at Avanca International Film Festival in Portugal.Read More »
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Sharunas Bartas – Peace to Us in Our Dreams (2015)
2011-2020DramaLithuaniaSharunas BartasPlot Summary:
A mild-mannered father, his restless daughter and his supine companion spend some time in a country cottage at the tail end of summer in Peace to Us in Our Dreams, from Lithuanian auteur Sharunas Bartas (A Casa, Seven Invisible Men). Though no one would mistake the latest effort from this Cannes regular for a Michael Bay movie, Dreams isn’t only composed of the director’s signature long takes and thus seems to move at a speed at least a cut above a snail’s pace. Add to that the fact the last 30 or so minutes are almost chatty — if still sotto voce —and it becomes clear we’re miles away from the Bartas of a film such as Few of Us, the 1996 Un Certain Regard entry that earned him comparisons to Tarkovsky and featured no dialogue at all. Still, a film in which characters don’t say much for the first hour will forever remain on the arthouse fringe, more likely to pop up at cinematheques and festivals than in any type of offshore commercial release.Read More » -
Sharunas Bartas – Frost (2017)
2011-2020ArthouseDramaLithuaniaSharunas BartasRokas and Inga, a couple of young Lithuanians, volunteer to drive a cargo van of humanitarian aid to Ukraine. When plans change and they find themselves left to their own devices, they cross the vast snowy lands of the Donbass region in search of allies and shelter, drifting into the lives of those affected by the war. They approach the frontline in spite of the danger, all the while growing closer to each other as they begin to understand life during wartime.Read More »