A newly appointed teacher arrives at a remote village school in 1947. The famous journalist and distinguished poet was downgraded for illegal publications and forbidden anti-Soviet verses. Suspicious locals still prefer to test his loyalties, while children wilingly recite his verses from 'To My Soviet Motherland', written under pressure to prase Uncle Lenin. Eventually, an unforgotten friend shows him a secret wintery path to the Dainava resistance platoon's underground bunker.
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.
A trio of unemployed homeland-hating emigrants come back to Lithuania for holiday, where by accident, they become entangled in fake businessmen roles and discover their motherland again.
An American-born Jewish adolescent, Hannah Stern, is uninterested in the culture, faith and customs of her relatives. However, she begins to revaluate her heritage when she has a supernatural experience that transports her back to a Nazi death camp in 1941. There she meets a young girl named Rivkah, a fellow captive in the camp. As Rivkah and Hannah struggle to survive in the face of daily atrocities, they form an unbreakable bond.
This film is the story of Mr Faust, who has lost everything there is to lose, as he bids an unfortunate farewell to life, his feelings for his saviour Cloud, and his determination to regain his cursed body and reclaim his soul.
The film portrays Lukša's attempts, in trips to western Europe, to gain support for the armed anti-Soviet resistance (known as the Forest Brothers), whose fortunes in a guerrilla war against Soviet authorities were waning, largely due to widespread infiltration and harsh crackdowns by the NKVD.
The sailor Audrius comes ashore for the last time in his life. The story unfolds through Audrius’ journey and his many encounters over the weekend as autumn turns to winter. He is driven by a severe lack of time. Inadequate actions and reactions make sense when we find out his secret: he’s dying of Leukemia. During his grandmother’s birthday in her countryside village, surrounded by his family and after reassuring his son, he makes a final attempt to find resolve and peace. Farewell is a moving universal tale, uplifting and heart warming, verbally laconic and visually rich. It is a clear-cut story of the human spirit, which is both relentless and immortal.
A talkative taxi driver roams the nightly streets. An apathetic girl enters his car. The two don't seem to connect, until she asks to make a stop with intent to cause harm upon someone. Does their shared trip even have a destination?
Kaunas, Lithuania, 1941, Lithuanian activist Andrius Gluosnis kills a Jew Isaac in Lietukio garage massacre. Years after the incident Gluosnis is haunted by the guilt.
Forty year old Tomas Papartis is a regular guy, who lives a regular life. One day due to system failure he is declared dead. His bank card doesn't work anymore, his apartment is sold to the government, as if he had ceased to exist. Here stars Tomas's battle to prove- he's alive!
Bumbling country bumpkin Kęstas and his urbane brother Vincas unexpectedly inherit five million dollars each, but only if they complete their late uncle’s bizarre final wishes. Under the watchful eye of notary’s daughter Justė, the pair must pull off a series of outlandish tasks - from staging their uncle’s funeral to stealing apples, selling potatoes, and even climbing inside a cow’s pancake - before they can claim the fortune - and, perhaps, discover what it truly means to be brothers.
The film is based on the novel of the same name by P. Kuusberg and tells about the fate of former classmates, high school students, during the Second World War and in the post-war period.
Two Dutch dopes travel to an East European country to try their holiday luck there for a change. After the gruff customs officer in a grey uniform, a golden opportunity awaits them. A taciturn, reserved beauty is waiting for someone with a sign saying ‘Mr. Peterson’. Elated, Peter and Sjon get in the car with her. The trip was ‘all-inclusive’, wasn’t it?
Seneca’s Day is set in the year 1989, the final period of the Soviet era in Lithuania. Eighteen-year old buddies establish the Seneca’s Fellowship with the motto “Live each day as if it was your last”. A love triangle breaks up the fellowship right at the time the nation experiences an exceptional sense of community via Baltic Chain.Twenty-five years later, the main character who at first glance appears to be accompanied by good luck, is disillusioned with himself. He has betrayed the ideals of his youth and become a cold observer of life.
Based on A. Chekov's play of the same name.
Having lost their jobs due to a Soviet takeover of Lithuanian Television in 1991, its employees declare a hunger strike in protest. Initial enthusiasm is slowly replaced by frustration about a single question – how long can they hold physical and emotional hunger?
Lithuania, 1948. War is over, but the country is left in ruins. 19-year-old Untė is a member of the Partisan movement resisting Soviet occupation. They do not fight on equal terms, but this desperate struggle will determine the future of the whole population. At the age of discovery of life, Untė discovers violence and treachery. The lines are blurred between the burning passion of his youth and the cause for which he is fighting. He will invest himself wholeheartedly, even if it means losing his innocence…
In a first‐ever national “Jealousy Games,” three teams - a group of friends, a family with children and an elderly couple - compete to vacation so lavishly that the entire country envies them and win a huge cash prize. But their attempts to spark envy in Palanga, Šventoji and Nida are constantly held back by mishaps and a relentless “jealousy expert“.
Vytas is a resident of a blocked houses quarter and he is just as dull as his neighborhood. Though the young guy is over his twenties, he still lives with his parents - spending their days watching TV. Vytas' girlfriend Ona is a bit different - she is independent, knows her likes and dislikes, has some friends - one of which she starts seeing more and more often. This leaves no sunshine in Vytas life at all and makes him wander for the truth in the maze of the blocked houses quarter.
An opera singer, who is a substitute for the primo uomo, has to spend the time of a performance routinely behind the scenes. He has yet no knowing that it will be his turn on that particular day to appear on the stage and replace an Italian singer who had fallen ill.
A grown-up son goes on a countryside trip with his ageing parents in the hopes of reigniting the relationship, but there is nothing left to reignite. This story of familial dysfunction is set against the picturesque backdrop of a dacha community (instantly recognisable to every post-Soviet native), rendered by Vytautas Katkas with irony and a rare sympathy for his hapless subjects.
Steponas Darius and Stasys Girėnas attempt to flight over Atlantic ocean.
The film combines three short stories: Der Mond, "Tristan und Isolde" and "Aida". The themes of these short stories are sin, duty and love.
The world's hardest - and weirdest - heavy metal band Impaled Rektum is serving their sentence in Norway's nicest prison. They receive word that guitarist Lotvonen's parents' reindeer herding farm is about to come under the hammer. It will take a big gig and big money to save the farm. A breakout ensues and a trip to the world's biggest heavy festival, Wacken in northern Germany begins. The higher the target, the bigger the obstacles. This is what the boys will experience on their epic journey to the main stage of Wacken - every metalhead's heaven.
An outrageous crime - action - comedy examining corruption and greed in Lithuanian politics.
Two rednecks rob a wedding train.
In 1942, in Vilna, the Nazi annihilate 55,000 Jews and squeeze the 15,000 survivors in a seven blocks ghetto. The twenty-two year old sadistic commander Kittel is assigned to administrate the ghetto in the capital of Lithuania, becoming the master of life or death. When he finds the gorgeous Hayyah sneaking with one kilo of beam stolen from the German army, he sentences her to death; but when he is informed that she was a former successful singer, he decides to activate the old theater and promote shows in the ghetto. The Jew Chief of Police Gens uses the theater and a sewing factory to save as much lives as he can; in his ambiguous position, he kills Jews to save lives of others.
The eventful life of a humble Polish priest who once decried the pomp of the Catholic Church "a circus" and labeled the Pope a "prisoner of the Vatican" before ascending to the papal throne to usher Catholicism into the 21st century. Born in Poland and forced to carry on following the untimely death of his family, Karol Wojtyla endured both personal hardships and the rape of his homeland by the Third Reich to spread the word of God through the Catholic Church. Later, as Pope John Paul II, Wojtyla was beloved by millions of Catholics worldwide. From the sexual-abuse scandal that shook the American Catholic Church in the later-20th century to the murder of Salvadoran Archbishop Oscar Romero and the near-fatal assassination attempt made on his own life, Pope John Paul II endured to bridge the gap between various faiths until his death resulting from Parkinson's disease in April of 2005.
End of summer. Danielius (in mid 30s) makes a return to his hometown to sell his parents' flat. Having nowhere to rush, he reconnects with people and the town that's no longer his. He is confronted with a quiet sense of loneliness.
A wealthy, hard-working farmer has an only son. Immersed in the bohemian lifestyle of the capital, he lives a carefree life—painting pictures when he feels like it, partying when he feels like it, with girls falling into his bed one after another. It's hard to even remember their names. When life is so fun, who would dream of taking over their father's land and driving a tractor? But one day, life is turned upside down. With his head bowed, the prodigal son returns to his father. On the farm, he finds not only his father, but also a young, beautiful woman, clearly his father's sweetheart. His father's anniversary is approaching. The son and his father's beloved are asked to organize a celebration according to all Lithuanian traditions. The party begins! Let's go celebrate!
In an academic committee where student performances are judged, a newcomer lecturer must decide: confront the power she once respected or stay silent to belong.