Industries

Film making

Vilnius can be anything you like, and everything you can imagine.

Vilnius was proudly chosen many times as a place to unleash the imagination of filmmakers to make visions come true. What do we mean?

Have you ever wondered where your favourite TV show was shot? Are you a fan of Netflix’s Stranger things? Well, it was filmed here in Vilnius, among famous movies like BBC’s War and Peace, HBO/Sky’s Chernobyl, Catherine the Great, Jack the Ripper and other world-known titles.

Find out more about the greatest locations for movie makers and take a stroll in the city to discover them all.

And even become an actor yourself! Enrol at the Actor’s Agency (actorsagency.lt), the Baltics’ biggest talent recruitment agency, or Top Casting (topcasting.lt) and maybe tomorrow you’ll be invited to become a star in the next big thing to hit screens!

Fintech

The fintech sector in Vilnius has skyrocketed in the last few years, attracting attention from around the globe. With its top talent, favourable business environment, friendly regulatory system and supportive ecosystem, Vilnius is the ideal home for fintech.

#10 best country in the world for fintech

And here’s where we stand

265 fintech companies operating in Lithuania in 2022

11% annual growth in the number of specialists in financial services

Source: Invest Lithuania, 2022

Information and Communication Technologies sector

With a pool of 36,000 professional software developers (Invest Lithuania 2021) and 2,500 new coding school specialists joining the market annually, Vilnius is:

1st globally for public WiFi speed (Ooma, 2020)

3rd globally for the availability of digital/technological skills (IMD World Competitiveness Yearbook, 2022)

5th in mobile download speed/mbps in the CEE (Speedtest Global Index, 206th globally in the National Cyber Security Index)

8th in mobile app

(Global Innovation Index, 2020)