"Kruso" tells of the last summer before the Wall came down on the small island of Hiddensee in the Baltic Sea. Beyond state-organized tourism, the isolated island became a kind of artist colony every year and a place of longing for dropouts and alternatives. Due to its proximity to Denmark, Hiddensee was also the starting point for the flight across the Baltic Sea.
Fake life bursts like a bubble when Donatas receives a phone call from his rich and powerful father.
The latest film by the director of popular Lithuanian comedies.
When a London-based DJ Egle returns to native Lithuania for an Easter celebration, she finds herself facing more than just the music.
Maria returns to her former life after checking herself out of a rehabilitation clinic where she was being treated for panic attacks. To gain back her position as lead researcher and convince her family she is fine, she hides her breakdowns, which manifest themselves as crazy hallucinations. However, hiding her special condition while also competing for a neuroscience project and the love of her family proves to be more difficult than she’d thought.
A stand-up comedian is dumped by his girlfriend, when he decides, that he must win her back at all costs.
Second part (despite the number 3 in the title) of the Lithuanian black comedy about the local police force. The 7th Police Precinct does what officers seldom do - blow a fortune. Embracing a new unofficial motto, “Buy, Spend, Waste,” they soon learn that money can’t buy happiness, which doesn’t stop them from trying.
A family who call themselves true patriots of Lithuania is preparing for a special celebration - their son's send-off to the volunteer army. The father is the happiest about his son's choice, as he divides people into only two groups: patriots and traitors to the state. But as the farewell approaches, the joy is replaced by increasing tension, until finally, hidden emotions erupt. Conflicts of values come to the surface, and the attempts of the household to prove their devotion to their homeland begin to teeter on the edge of the absurd. In the end, it turns out that the true patriots are not those who speak loudly of their love for their country.
A mute guy struggles to fit in at a construction site. Tensions rise among the workers when a colleague gets badly injured.
Paramedic Vincentas is a passionate gambler, who is forced to make radical decisions to return the debts. An idea strikes Vincentas to create an illegal game related to his profession. Love, life and death will be at stake.
When Marija learns that her unstable boyfriend has disappeared, she takes to the streets in an attempt to find him.
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.
Early in the morning, the air-raid siren goes off. Mother's darkest thoughts become true. She awakens her little son and hurries to pick up only the outfit that is at hand and runs out to protect their lives. In the boy's room, deathly silence reigns with no hope that the family will ever come back there again.
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.
The coming-of-age tale of 16-year-old Lina Vilkas who is deported to Siberia amid Stalin's reign of terror in the Baltic region during WWII. An aspiring artist, she secretly documents her harrowing journey with her drawings.