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  • Various – Lithuanian Cinema (2015)

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  • Alante Kavaite – Sangailes vasara AKA The Summer of Sangaile (2015)

    2011-2020Alante KavaiteArthouseDramaLithuania

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    17 years old Sangaile is fascinated by stunt planes. She meets a girl her age at a summer aeronautical show. Sangaile allows Auste to discover her most intimate secret and in the process finds the only person that truly encourages her to fly.

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  • Maris Martinsons – Tyli naktis AKA Christmas. Uncensored (2012)

    2011-2020DramaEroticaLithuaniaMaris Martinsons

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    Christmas. Uncensored is a 2012 drama film written and directed by Maris Martinsons.

    In 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.

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    “Best Cristmas Ever” this line is in the movie.
    It’s Cristmas eve, and Tom (Leonardas Pobedonoscevas) with his wife with Ana (Valda Bickute)is going to Tom’s parents for the night. They leave their children’s with they uncle. And supposing to be nice warm evening turn into total disaster.
    Movie is funny ,intense sometimes, its about human relationships and how complicated it can get.
    All in all i like dramas, and this one is not an exception. Maris Martinsons got his own style for dramas, there is another good his movie Amaya (2010). – by Giedrius G, imdbRead More »

  • Sharunas Bartas – Laisve AKA Freedom (2000)

    1991-2000ArthouseLithuaniaSharunas Bartas

    A handful of strangers hoping to find freedom discover it is no easy quarry in this metaphoric drama. Four people stand near the shore of a seaside community and board a small boat hoping to sail away; they are soon attacked by border guards, and one of them does not survive. The three remaining sailors — two men (Axel Neuman and Valentinas Masalskis) and a woman (Fatima Ennafloui) — wash up on the beach of an island strewn with rocks. None of them speak the same language, and they struggle to make their way on the unforgiving coastline, often at odds with each other. They find they are not alone on the island — an Arab settlement and a cadre of soldiers are already living there; the military men attack them, and the Arabs refuse to come to their aid. Freedom was shown in competition at the 2000 Venice Film Festival. (by Mark Deming,)

    Runaway drug dealers and a lost girl travel through a desert and along the coast. This journey reveals the complicated relationships between people, their striving for freedom to be lonely.
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  • Audrius Stonys – Uku ukai (2006)

    Documentary2001-2010Audrius StonysExperimentalLithuania

    “Sorrow does not come merely from contemplating death, which forces us to look into Eternity, but also from life, which compels us to confront Time”, wrote Russian philosopher Nikolai Berdyayev. Renowned Lithuanian documentarist Audrius Stonys took these words as a motto for his latest film, a meditative visual essay which portrays old people undertaking all kinds of activities, meditation and group laughter therapy. Without a single word of commentary, he creates from sophisticated, aesthetic images a compelling study of human corporeality which, in an ideal union with spiritual equilibrium, can sustain us with the pledge that old age doesn’t have to be a painful wait for the last breath.Read More »

  • Arünas Zebriünas – Paskutine atostogu diena aka the Girl and the Echo (1964)

    1961-1970Arünas ZebriünasDramaLithuania

    Movie about a friendship of two children – a girl and a boy during the last day of summer holiday

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    Young Vika is spending her summer vacation with her grandfather on a remote seaside area surrounded by mountains. She flutters like a butterfly in her dotted dress, both in the mountains and by the water. The girl’s best friends are the mountains, and she loves their echo the most. She considers her affections secrets, and shares them with her new friend, Roma, a young boy who is newcomer to the area and who soon sadly betrays Vika’s friendship. The summer vacation ends on a sour note, but on leaving, Vika throws a coin into the sea, a wish to return next year.Read More »

  • Kristina Buozyte – Aurora aka Vanishing Waves (2012)

    2011-2020Kristina BuozyteLithuaniaRomanceSci-Fi

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    A neuron-transfer scientist experiments with the thoughts of a comatose young woman.
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  • Algimantas Puipa – Vilko Dantu Karoliai aka A Wolf Teeth Necklace (1997)

    1991-2000Algimantas PuipaArthouseLithuania

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    “A famed Lithuanian painter expresses the torment of his youth through his paintings. But lately, even his work provides no solace, for he falls into a deep mid-life crises and can find no inspiration. This grim, earnest and arty drama looks back upon his formative years, the joy of which were destroyed by Stalin’s policies. The darkness began for him when his father was arrested for being an enemy of the state and sent to a Siberian prison. The boy and his remaining family become social pariahs, and the only way his mother can support them is to prostitute herself to the local police and politicians. Eventually the young painter is sent to the countryside, but even there, he cannot escape the fear and oppression. To cope, he becomes hard and cynical; his mother too changes dramatically and when the father finally returns home, he finds himself among virtual strangers.”Read More »

  • Audrius Stonys – Antigravitacija AKA Antigravitation (1995)

    1991-2000Audrius StonysDocumentaryLithuania

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    this poem of inexorable yearning, people look out, up, away from their little spot in the universe. The snowy miniature tableaux of boxy houses, dray horses and children tugging sleds seem oddly comforting in contrast to the exposed heights of the town bridge, the church tower and the mountaintop. This quiet meditation lulls you, then sweeps you up into the heavens.

    After we finished shooting “Earth of the blind” I was holding the impression of man climbing a big chimney for two years. How does the world look like from such empyrean? What holds man between earth and sky? How does the world look like from roofs of churches? These questions were the starting point.Read More »

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