LITHUANIAN DOCUMENTARIES 2012–2013
Cover picture from the archives of the photographer Vitas Luckus, 1696. Copyright Tatjana Luckienė-Aldag. Picture used as an illustration for Giedrė Žickytė’s film ‘Luckus’.
LITHUANIAN FILM CENTRE
FEATURES
DIRECTOR Aleksandras Matonis SCRIPT WRITERS Valdas Rakutis, Aleksandras Matonis CINEMATOGRAPHERS Juozas Matonis, Rolandas Leonavičius, Saulius Lukoševičius EDITORS Darius Šilėnas, Aleksandras Matonis COMPOSER Antanas Kučinskas PRODUCER Martynas Mickėnas PRODUCTION ‘Baltic Productions’ (Lithuania). CONTACTS
1410. KNOWN UNKNOWN ŽALGIRIS 1410. ŽINOMAS NEŽINOMAS ŽALGIRIS 2012 • 70 min • HD Colour The documentary is dedicated to the Žalgiris (Grunwald, Tannenberg) battle which was the major event in the 1409–1411 Great War between the Teutonic Order and the joint Lithuanian-Polish forces. Called the Battle of Nations the Teutonic Order suffered a devastating defeat, which it was never able to completely recover from. Although the Žalgiris battle has been an object of study for centuries, there are many stereotypes and misconceptions. The film reveals the truth via interviews with famous scientists from Lithuania, Poland and Germany. COMPLETED
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Stasys Baltakis Address Zarasų st. 24, LT-11342, Vilnius, Lithuania Phone +370 605 07 462 E-mail info@balticproductions.com Website www.balticproductions.com
DIRECTOR Natalija Ju SCRIPT WRITERS Ala Asovskaja, Jurij Šuckij, Natalija Ju CINEMATOGRAPHERS Algimantas Mikutėnas, Gintarė Zakarauskaitė, Vincas Kubilius, Aleksandr Petrovskij COMPOSER Vladimir Novikov EDITOR Natalija Ju PRODUCER Natalija Ju PHOTO BY Jevgenij Demjančiuk PRODUCTION ‘Studija JU’ (Lithuania). CONTACTS
A FALL AS A PART OF THE FLIGHT KRITIMAS KAIP SKRYDŽIO DALIS 2013 • 52 min • DVCAM Colour / B/W
Natalija Ju Address Naugarduko st. 91-311, LT-03160, Vilnius, Lithuania Phone +370 682 23 949 E-mail info@studijaju.com Website www.studijaju.com
The documentary A Fall as a Part of the Flight is a story about an actor of the Lithuanian Russian Drama theatre – Vladimir Jefremov – and his way of life. His creative search and personal choice in the vortex of historical events. POST-PRODUCTION
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DIRECTOR Kęstutis Gudavičius SCRIPT WRITER Kęstutis Gudavičius CINEMATOGRAPHER Vilius Mačiulskis SOUND RECORDIST Julius Zubavičius EDITOR Kęstutis Gudavičius PRODUCER Teresa Rožanovska PRODUCTION ‘Ketvirta versija’ (Lithuania), ‘Concept events & media’ (Lithuania). CONTACTS
ALCOFOOTBALL ALKOFUTBOLAS 2013 • 60 min • 16mm, HD Colour This film is about the Lithuanian homeless football team participating in the Homeless World Cup in Rio de Janeiro, 2010. The aim of the movie is to record the team’s twisted path towards the championship: the tough training, preparation, and temptation. Together, let us take a look at the lives of the team members, their stories and the reasons that led them to where they are now. After the championship, or maybe even during it, behold a spark of a desire to start a new life; the moment of happiness, which will initiate something new. POST-PRODUCTION
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Teresa Rožanovska Address Revonių st. 8-2, LT-03154, Vilnius, Lithuania Phone +370 618 07 994 E-mail t.ziboliene@gmail.com Website www.ketvirtaversija.lt
DIRECTOR Audrius Stonys SCRIPT WRITER Audrius Stonys CINEMATOGRAPHER Audrius Kemežys COMPOSER Giedrius Puskunigis EDITOR Danielius Kokanauskis PRODUCER Uljana Kim PRODUCTION Studio Uljana Kim (Lithuania), ‘Leitmotiv Production’ (France). CONTACTS
CENOTAPH KENOTAFAS
Uljana Kim Address Antakalnio st. 94-25, LT-10202, Vilnius, Lithuania Phone +370 699 26 552 E-mail kim@lfc.lt
2013 • 65 min • HD Colour Three soldiers with no names lie beneath the roots of an oak. Two are Russians and one is a German. They were buried there during the war at night, in secret, fearing everyone and everything. They shared one grave pit for seventy years. Has the fear that had bound people seventy years ago finally disappeared? After all these years, has the road to the eternal resting place for these soldiers become easy to find? POST-PRODUCTION
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DIRECTOR Giedrė Beinoriūtė SCRIPT WRITER Giedrė Beinoriūtė CINEMATOGRAPHER Audrius Kemežys COMPOSER Gediminas Gelgotas EDITORS Danielius Kokanauskis, Giedrė Beinoriūtė PRODUCER Jurga Gluskinienė PRODUCTION ‘Monoklis’ (Lithuania). CONTACTS
CONVERSATIONS ON SERIOUS TOPICS POKALBIAI RIMTOMIS TEMOMIS 2012 • 65 min • DCP, 16:9 COLOUR This is a film without exterior action, props, landscapes or special effects. Its main characters are children and teenagers with the special ability to describe the surrounding world. Intimate conversations with them reveal the picture of the modern world – at times melancholic, at times comical, and at times dramatic. Shot in a minimalist fashion, the film raises questions about loneliness, love, God, the world and human relations. ‘The world is people.’ ‘Don’t you believe in God? I can teach you how to start believing…’ COMPLETED
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Jurga Gluskinienė Address Naugarduko st. 34, LT-03228, Vilnius, Lithuania Phone +370 687 90 681 E-mail jurga@monoklis.lt Website www.monoklis.lt AWARDS Docudays UA International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival, 2013 (Ukraine), Best Film Award at the DOCU/LIFE competition programme. FESTIVALS Doc Point Helsinki Documentary film festival, 2013 (Finland); DocPoint Tallinn Documentary Film Festival, 2013 (Estonia); 18th Vilnius International Film Festival ‘Kino pavasaris’, 2013 (Lithuania); Docudays UA International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival, 2013 (Ukraine).
DIRECTOR Ramūnas Abukevičius SCRIPT WRITER Ramūnas Abukevičius CINEMATOGRAPHERS Algimantas Mikutėnas, Adomas Jablonskis PRODUCER Ramūnas Abukevičius PHOTO BY Adomas Jablonskis PRODUCTION ‘Ramūno ateljė’ (Lithuania). CONTACTS
DONALEITIS DONALEITIS
Ramūnas Abukevičius Address Latako st. 1-1, LT-01125, Vilnius, Lithuania Phone +370 699 65 912 E-mail ramuno.atelje@gmail.com Website www.ramuno-atelje.lt
2013 • 60 min • HD Colour The film portrays the birth of the distinctive national costume that was popular in Lithuania Minor in the 18th century and reveals every stage of authentic process of making the costume: wool combing, spinning, weaving, etc. Today’s craftsmen preserved the working traditions that were prevalent among our ancestors and they let the camera capture how the costumes are being recreated. IN PRODUCTION
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DIRECTOR Jokūbas Vilius Tūras SCRIPT WRITER Jokūbas Vilius Tūras CINEMATOGRAPHERS Jokūbas Vilius Tūras COMPOSERS Martynas Bialobžeskis, Søren Dahl Jeppesen GRAPHIC DESIGNER Ramūnas Gilys EDITOR Paulius Zavadzkis PRODUCER Rasa Miškinytė PRODUCTION ERA FILM (Lithuania). CONTACTS
DREAMING THE PATH SAPNUOJU, KAD EINU 2012 • 85 min • DCP Colour Dreaming the Path is a road movie about self-discovery and the quest for lost faith, during which the author undertakes a gruelling journey on foot from his home in Vilnius to join the ‘camino’ to Santiago de Compostela. In a test of willpower, patience and love, and overcoming crippling doubt, he regains the hope and joy of life. Dreaming the Path is a film about human values against destruction, life against death, and faith against disbelief. COMPLETED
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Rasa Miškinytė Address K. Ladygos st. 1-119, LT-08235, Vilnius, Lithuania Phone +370 682 96 128 E-mail rasa@erafilm.lt Website www.erafilm.lt AWARDS Lithuanian Film and TV Industry Awards ‘Silver Crane 2013‘, prize for the best full length documentary. FESTIVALS 22nd Film Festival Cottbus, 2012 (Germany); 10th European Film Forum ‘Scanorama’, 2012 (Lithuania); 10th International Film Festival of the Art of Cinematography Plus Camerimage 2012 (Poland).
DIRECTOR Linas Mikuta SCRIPT WRITER Linas Mikuta CINEMATOGRAPHER Kristina Sereikaitė COMPOSER Erik K. Skodvin EDITORS Linas Mikuta, Kristina Sereikaitė PRODUCERS Domantė Urmonaitė, Jurga Gluskinienė PRODUCTION ‘Monoklis’ (Lithuania), Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre. CONTACTS
DZŪKIJA’S BULL DZŪKIJOS JAUTIS 2013 • 57 min • DCP, 16:9 Colour This is another world. A world far away from city noise and so called ‘modern culture’. A world that was created by God, not by human beings. Jonas, because of his unbelievable strength, called the ‘Bull’ by the villagers lives in such a world. He walks through his life unrushed and certain, reminding today‘s man of his fragility. He reveals a world where life and death, joy and sadness, power and weakness coexist together inseparably, a world, which fills up with apocalyptic visions and the ‘end of the world’ feeling.
Jurga Gluskinienė Address Naugarduko st. 34, LT-03228, Vilnius, Lithuania Phone +370 687 90 681 E-mail jurga@monoklis.lt Website www.monoklis.lt FESTIVALS Yerevan International film festival ‘Golden Apricot’, 2013 (Armenia); 18th Vilnius International Film Festival ‘Kino pavasaris’, 2013 (Lithuania); Tartu World Film Festival, 2013 (Estonia).
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DIRECTORS Andrius Brokas, Mindaugas Urbonavičius SCRIPT WRITER Darijus Sajadini CINEMATOGRAPHERS Algimantas Mikutėnas, Audrius Zelenius, Eugenijus Mironovičius COMPOSERS Vytautas Bikus, Ginta Biku SOUND RECORDIST Ramūnas Jasutis EDITORS Eugenijus Mironovičius, Kostas Radlinskas ART DIRECTOR Kęstutis Jankauskas PRODUCER Andrius Brokas EXECUTIVE PRODUCER Gerald Rafshoon PRODUCTION ‘Culture Bridge’ (Lithuania). CONTACTS
ENDLESS CORRIDOR BEGALINIS KORIDORIUS 2013 • 62 min • HD, DCP, Digital BTC, BD Colour ‘The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil if for good men to do nothing’ (Edmund Burke). What is going through a man’s mind when his family is killed in front of his eyes? What is it like to be a prisoner of war and undergo torture? Endless corridor is the definitive account of the heart-rending human rights tragedy in 1992 when hundreds of Azerbaijanis were massacred after Armenians stormed the city of Khojaly. Although it happened in 1992, the full story has not been told until now. And its lessons are relevant today as they were over 20 years ago. COMPLETED
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Andrius Brokas Address J. Kairiūkščio st. 7a-68, Vilnius, Lithuania Phone +370 659 86 444 E-mail andrius@culturebridge.lt Website www.endlesscorridor.com
DIRECTOR Marat Sargsyan SCRIPT WRITER Marat Sargsyan CINEMATOGRAPHER Linas Dabriška EDITOR Jan De Coster PRODUCERS Dagnė Vildžiūnaitė, Jonas Špokas PRODUCTION ‘Just a moment’ (Lithuania). CONTACTS
FATHER TĖVAS
Dagnė Vildžiūnaitė Address Bernardinų st. 10, LT-01124, Vilnius, Lithuania Phone +370 686 88 980 E-mail dagne@justamoment.lt Website www.justamoment.lt AWARDS
2012 • 60 min • DCP Colour
Visions du Réel, 2013 (Switzerland), the Prize George Foundation for the best medium length film.
Vidas Zenonas Antonovas stole around a million rubles from the state’s institutions and has been recorded in the book of the most interesting criminals of Soviet Union. He spent 20 years of his life in 15 different prisons. Now he is 71 and has a big family – 10 children, 2 grandchildren and a newborn son.
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‘Of course, twenty years in prison and the criminal activity I was involved in have changed my being. But I felt that I still had enough strength and opportunities to create the family that my father and grandfather spoke of,’ - said Antonovas.
International Film Festival ‘Golden Apricot’, 2013 (Armenia); 53rd Krakow Film Festival, 2013 (Poland); Visions du Réel, 2013 (Switzerland); 18th Vilnius International Film Festival ‘Kino pavasaris’; 2013 (Lithuania); 10th European Film Forum ‘Scanorama’ 2012 (Lithuania).
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DIRECTOR Maximilien Dejoie SCRIPT WRITERS Virginija Vareikytė, Maximilien Dejoie CINEMATOGRAPHER Federico Torres COMPOSER Enrico Ascoli PRODUCERS Dagnė Vildžiūnaitė, Lorenzo Lotti, Claudio Bronzo PRODUCTION ‘Just a moment’ (Lithuania), ‘Indastria Film’ (Italy). CONTACTS
FIVE PENKI 2013 • ~85 min Colour The documentary film Five tells personal stories of people who lived for months, sometimes for years, in the KGB prison during the 80s – the last decade of the Soviet Union. It is a story about the hope for humanity that still can be found in these people even after all that they have gone through. PRE-PRODUCTION
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Dagnė Vildžiūnaitė Address Bernardinų st. 10, LT-01124, Vilnius, Lithuania Phone +370 686 88 980 E-mail dagne@justamoment.lt Website www.justamoment.lt
DIRECTOR Andrius Lekavičius SCRIPT WRITER Andrius Lekavičius CINEMATOGRAPHERS Jaroslav Gavrin, Saulius Lukoševičius COMPOSER Justinas Chachlauskas EDITOR Ričardas Matačius PRODUCERS Aidas Avižinis, Linas Kunigėlis, Andrius Lekavičius, Titas Petrikis PRODUCTION ‘Audiovizualinio meno centras’ (Lithuania), ‘Kauno kino studija’ (Lithuania), Lithuanian Basketball Federation. CONTACTS
GAME OF THE NATION MES UŽ… LIETUVĄ! 2012 • 93 min • HD, DCP Colour
Aidas Avižinis Address Samanynės st. 20, Bendorių v., Vilnius d., Lithuania Phone +370 613 00 116 E-mail aidas@amcfilms.com Website www.amcfilms.com
Celebration in a country of basketball. Lithuania, probably the only country in the world where basketball is routinely described as a religion, hosts the most important basketball event of the year – the European basketball championship. The nation’s biggest pride, Lithuania‘s national basketball team has a long tradition of winning. All of Lithuania is waiting only for the gold. Viewers of this documentary will witness the intense preparations for EuroBasket 2011 with exclusive locker room-footage and follow all the challenges encountered by the players in sometimes dramatic and sometimes comical situations. COMPLETED
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DIRECTOR Andrius Seliuta SCRIPT WRITER Andrius Seliuta CINEMATOGRAPHER Andrius Seliuta SOUND RECORDIST Andrius Seliuta EDITORS Jonas Tertelis, Andrius Seliuta PRODUCER Teresa Rožanovska PRODUCTION ‘Ketvirta versija’ (Lithuania), ‘Friends Production’ (Lithuania). CONTACTS
GINTARAS VARNAS GINTARAS VARNAS 2013 • 60 min • HD Colour A documentary Gintaras Varnas states the artistic aspects belonging to one of the most talented artists of the middle-aged generation. Gintaras Varnas is known as a rebellious, unconventional drama creator. His performances range from the famous Puppet Theatre ideologies to the genre of the opera. Varnas’ creativity cannot be underestimated or go unnoticed. It is only in the perfomances of this theatre director that his creative identity traces can be identified, dealing with current public concerns, the occurrences of issues and their resolutions. IN PRODUCTION
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Teresa Rožanovska Address Revonių st. 8-2, LT-03154, Vilnius, Lithuania Phone +370 618 07 994 E-mail t.ziboliene@gmail.com Website www.ketvirtaversija.lt
DIRECTOR Lina Lužytė SCRIPT WRITER Lina Lužytė CINEMATOGRAPHERS Audrius Zelenius, Vilius Mačiulskis EDITORS Katharina Schmidt, Lina Lužytė PRODUCER Dagnė Vildžiūnaitė PRODUCTION ‘Just a moment’ (Lithuania). CONTACTS
IGRUSHKI IGRUŠKI 2012 • 59 min • DCP Colour Belarus. Town of Zhlobin. It’s been 21 years since the collapse of the Soviet Union. Most of the locals survive solely by making and selling soft toys. Their only customers are the people passing through on trains. However, approaching a train with a toy in one’s hands is illegal. The film tells the stories of ordinary people living in the town of Zhlobin. They all make toys, sell them, have chats, drink, go back to making toys, sing, fight and… make toys again.
Dagnė Vildžiūnaitė Address Bernardinų st. 10, LT-01124, Vilnius, Lithuania Phone +370 686 88 980 E-mail dagne@justamoment.lt Website www.justamoment.lt FESTIVALS 53rd Krakow Film Festival, 2013 (Poland); 13th goEast - Festival of Central and Eastern European Film, 2013 (Germany); American Documentary Film Festival, 2013 (United States); 18th Vilnius International Film Festival ‘Kino pavasaris’, 2013 (Lithuania); 10th European Film Forum ‘Scanorama’, 2012 (Lithuania).
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DIRECTOR Vytas Jankevičius SCRIPT WRITER Vytas Jankevičius CINEMATOGRAPHER Vytas Jankevičius COMPOSER Mindaugas Aleknavičius EDITOR Arvydas Raginis PRODUCER Algirdas Žvinakevičius PHOTO BY Vytas Jankevičius PRODUCTION ‘TV Europa’ (Lithuania). CONTACTS
IN THE REALM OF FALL HERALDS RUDENS ŠAUKLIŲ VALDOSE 2012 • 56 min • HD, DVD, Betacam SP, 16:9 Colour Nowadays it is believed that the first wild sublime deer breed appeared precisely in the forest of the Žagarė region and then later were seen in the North Lithuania and Latvia as well. The film director Vytas Jankevičius spent five years in Žagarė Regional park during the making of the film. There he became acquainted with local man Saulius Alejūnas who is not only a woodsman and monumentalist but a big nature lover, too. The documentary reflects the life of wild deers in Žagarė Regional park forests through the eyes of Saulius Alejūnas. COMPLETED
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Algirdas Žvinakevičius Address S. Konarskio st. 49-307, LT-03123, Vilnius, Lithuania Phone +370 698 72 303 E-mail info@tveuropa.lt Website www.tveuropa.lt
AWARDS ‘Petras Abukevičius‘ prize for the best film about Lithuania‘s nature, 2012 (Lithuania).
DIRECTOR Johanna Jackie Baier SCRIPT WRITER Johanna Jackie Baier CINEMATOGRAPHERS Dieter Vervuurt, Thorsten Schneider COMPOSERS Christopher Franke, Princessin Hans EDITORS Steffen Reck, Johanna Jackie Baier PRODUCERS Dagnė Vildžiūnaitė, Gamma Bak, Johanna Jackie Baier PHOTO BY Johanna Jackie Baier PRODUCTION ‘Just a moment’ (Lithuania), ‘Gamma Bak Filmproduktion’ (Germany), ‘J. Jackie Baier Filmproduktion’ (Germany).
JULIA JULIA 2013 • 89.30 min • DCP Colour Julia is a ‘long-term portrait’ of a present day 30-year old transsexual woman Julia K. from Klaipėda, Lithuania, who came to Berlin as an 18-year old, and has been working since then as a prostitute – the last eight years on the strip of the notorious Frobenstrasse. ‘I cannot say ‘I am a woman’, but neither am I a man,’ Julia says of herself. ‘I am something you don’t know from a dictionary. I am – something… a creation of God, but an odd creation. God didn’t take good care during my birth.’ Julia does not have any other authority than this God who has made a mistake. She has never signed the ‘contract social’.
CONTACTS Dagnė Vildžiūnaitė Address Bernardinų st. 10, LT-01124, Vilnius, Lithuania Phone +370 686 88 980 E-mail dagne@justamoment.lt Website www.justamoment.lt WORLD SALES ‘M-appeal’ Katja Lenarcic Phone +49 30 61 50 75 05 E-mail films@m-appeal.com Website www.m-appeal.com
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DIRECTOR Natalija Ju SCRIPT WRITER Natalija Ju CINEMATOGRAPHER Algimantas Mikutėnas ART DIRECTOR Jurij Grigorovič EDITOR Natalija Ju PRODUCERS Natalija Ju, Julia Leesku PHOTO BY Šarūnas Bartas PRODUCTION ‘Studija JU’ (Lithuania), ‘Red Fox’ (Estonia). CONTACTS
KATIA KATIA 2013 • 52 min • HDTV Colour It‘s not that important to be a good actor, it is more important to be able to establish a love story with the camera. During her short life Katerina Golubeva had a never-ending love story with the camera. The film is a story about a French star, a Lithuanian actress, and a Russian woman. PRE-PRODUCTION
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Natalija Ju Address Naugarduko st. 91-311, LT- 03202, Vilnius, Lithuania Phone +370 682 23 949 E-mail info@studijaju.com Website www.studijaju.com
DIRECTOR Julija Zubavičienė SCRIPT WRITER Julija Zubavičienė CINEMATOGRAPHER Irina Shatalova COMPOSER Julius Zubavičius SOUND RECORDIST Algimantas Apanavičius PRODUCER Oksana Černovskaja PRODUCTION ‘LitFilmas’ (Lithuania), Belarusian Video Centre (Belarus). CONTACTS
LIDA. VANDA. LIUSIA LIDA. VANDA. LIUSIA 2014 • 52 min Colour
Oksana Černovskaja, Julija Zubavičienė Address Rūko st. 14, LT-04126, Vilnius, Lithuania Phone +370 657 69 307, +447 402 92 0412, Fax +370 5 2305 023 E-mail cernovkskaja@gmail.com Website www.litfilmas.com
Three old ladies, Vanda, Lida and Liusia, put aside the lifelong enmity between them and unexpectedly decide to depart on a long journey to visit their beloved granddaughter. This is the story of three women – recognisable, touching, closely related by family ties. About my three grandmothers – the vanishing Soviet generation, part of which they are, about women’s destiny, about me. Integral parts of the main theme are identity, immigration, emigration, nostalgia. IN PRODUCTION
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DIRECTOR Giedrė Žickytė SCRIPT WRITER Giedrė Žickytė CINEMATOGRAPHER Audrius Kemežys SOUND RECORDIST Algimantas A. Apanavičius EDITORS Danielius Kokanauskis, Giedrė Žickytė PRODUCER Dagnė Vildžiūnaitė PHOTO From the archives of the photographer Vitas Luckus, 1696. Copyright Tatjana Luckienė-Aldag. PRODUCTION ‘Just a moment’ (Lithuania). CONTACTS
LUCKUS LUCKUS 2013 • ~90 min Colour Some called him a madman, others – a genius. His multifaceted talent had an impact on virtually every aspect of photography. He was the first to go beyond Lithuanian surroundings and document the spontaneous reality of Asia, Caucasus, Siberia, and other Soviet Republics. Lithuanian photographer, legend of the Soviet Sixties’ generation, Vitas Luckus tragically passed away in 1987. Yet the life and times of the talented rebel still impassion and lead us to a journey questioning why, at all times, we are wary of those who are really free. POST-PRODUCTION
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Dagnė Vildžiūnaitė Address Bernardinų st. 10, LT-01124, Vilnius, Lithuania Phone +370 686 88 980 E-mail dagne@justamoment.lt Website www.justamoment.lt
DIRECTOR Romas Lileikis SCRIPT WRITER Romas Lileikis CINEMATOGRAPHER Viktoras Radzevičius COMPOSER Kipras Mašanauskas ART DIRECTOR Vytenis Lingys EDITORS Romas Lileikis, Dominykas Kilčiauskas PRODUCERS Kęstutis Petrulis, Arūnas Stoškus PRODUCTION ‘Studija 2’ (Lithuania). CONTACTS
MAAT MAAT
Kęstutis Petrulis, Arūnas Stoškus Address S. Konarskio st. 49, LT-03123, Vilnius, Lithuania Phone +370 520 56 055, +370 698 08 876 E-mail studija2@zebra.lt
2013 • 61 min • DCP, Blu-ray B/W Essence – light like a feather. Routine – heavy, like a heart. A supportive hand – here, facing you. This is a personal film by Romas Lileikis which focuses on the process of understanding this world. COMPLETED
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DIRECTOR Dali Rust SCRIPT WRITER Dali Rust CINEMATOGRAPHERS Saulius Lukoševičius, Shandor Berkeshy, Aleksej Arsentjev, Viktor Jačmenev, Arsenij Troickij EDITORS Andrius Paškevičius, Kostas Radlinskas, Violetta Leonavichute, Ru Hasanov ART DIRECTOR Jurij Grigorovič PRODUCERS Julija Mishkinene, Dagnė Vildžiūnaitė PRODUCTION ‘Just a moment’ (Lithuania), ‘Vita Aktiva’ (Russia). WORLD SALES
MARINA’S HOUSE MARINOS NAMAI
Reflextion Films Phone +74996081433 E-mail reflexionfilms@gmail.com Website www.reflexionfilms.com
2012 • 53 min • DCP Colour
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The main characters of the film are Marina Tarkovskaya, a writer, the daughter of the poet Arseny Tarkovsky and the sister of the film director Andrey Tarkovsky, and her husband Aleksandr Gordon, a film director, screenwriter, actor and writer, Andrey Tarkovsky’s friend and brother-in-law. This is the story of a special, creative family, a family bound together by complicated relationships, accompanied by pain, misunderstanding, and sadness. But these people found consolation in the throes of creativity. That was the life of Arseny the poet and Andrey the director; this is the life of Marina and Aleksandr now. COMPLETED
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Dagnė Vildžiūnaitė Phone +370 686 88 980 E-mail dagne@justamoment.lt Website www.justamoment.lt FESTIVALS Andrey Tarkovsky International Film Festival ‘Zerkalo’, 2013 (Russia); National Film Festival of Debuts ‘Movement’, 2013 (Russia); 18th Vilnius International Film Festival ‘Kino pavasaris’, 2013 (Lithuania); 8th International Women Film Festival ‘Šeršėliafam’, 2013 (Lithuania); 12th Helsinki Documentary Film Festival ‘DocPoint’, 2013 (Finland); 8th European Film Festival in Kaliningrad, 2012 (Russia); 12th International Film Festival ‘Message To Man’, 2012 (Russia).
DIRECTOR Martina Jablonskytė SCRIPT WRITER Martina Jablonskytė CINEMATOGRAPHERS Audrius Kemežys, Martina Jablonskytė SOUND RECORDIST Martina Jablonskytė EDITOR Martina Jablonskytė PRODUCER Teresa Rožanovska PRODUCTION ‘Ketvirta versija’ (Lithuania), ‘Concept events & media’ (Lithuania). CONTACTS
PHENOMENON FENOMENAS
Teresa Rožanovska Address Revonių st. 8-2, LT-03154, Vilnius, Lithuania Phone +370 618 07 994 E-mail t.ziboliene@gmail.com Website www.ketvirtaversija.lt
2013 • 60 min • HD Colour I ran away from the country into the city. And then, I ran away even further, abroad. The neighbours were talking, and newspapers wrote – about the ‘better‘ life abroad. What do those neighbours know about a ‘better‘ life and what do newspapers have in common with life... Now I don‘t know anymore what I was looking for then, and what bird I was chasing... I feel it is time to return and start my story, which I will tell you my son, when you grow up. And now, ‘tshshshhhh‘... it is time to lay an egg... IN PRODUCTION
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DIRECTOR Ramunė Rakauskaitė SCRIPT WRITERS Renata Šerelytė, Romas Lileikis, Ramunė Rakauskaitė, Arūnas Matelis CINEMATOGRAPHER Eitvydas Doškus ART DIRECTOR Daiva Petrulytė PRODUCER Arūnas Matelis PRODUCTION Studio Nominum (Lithuania), ‘Vides Filmu Studija’ (Latvia). CONTACTS
RadvILIAD RadvILIADA. SAVASTIES PAIEŠKOS
Address A. Goštauto st. 2/15 LT-01104, Vilnius, Lithuania Phone +370 612 41 012 E-mail grupe1@nominum.lt Website www.nominum.lt
2013 • 90 min • DCP, 16:9 Colour A film about one of the most famous, sophisticated and influential European noblemen of the XV-XVIII centuries - the Radvila‘s (Radziwill) family and his members, who had been one of the wealthiest real estate owners in the Old Continent for several hundred years, defeated a 12 times bigger army of Ivan the Terrible by its own troops in a legendary battle, defended European protestants without being afraid of inquisitional fires and also published the first bestselling travel book about a trip to Jerusalem. It’s a family that has been always noted for its sacrificial manner to others, claiming that “the real fortune of a nobleman is in Heaven, not on Earth”. And now, after a couple of centuries, the offspring of this family can be found among world political elite all the way down from Europe to Kennedy’s family or Emmy winners, all sharing the same values. IN PRODUCTION 24
DIRECTOR Natalija Ju SCRIPT WRITERS Jevgenija Juchnevič, Natalija Ju CINEMATOGRAPHERS Algimantas Mikutėnas, Gintarė Zakarauskaitė, Vincas Kubilius COMPOSER Vidmantas Bartulis ART DIRECTOR Jurij Grigorovič EDITOR Natalija Ju PRODUCERS Natalija Ju, Jevgenija Juchnevič PHOTOGRAPH from the archives of Ivanovs‘ family PRODUCTION ‘Studija JU’ (Lithuania). CONTACTS
RUSSIAN FRENCH FAMILY OF IVANOVS PRANCŪZŲ IVANOVŲ ŠEIMA 2013 • 52 min • DVCAM Colour / B/W
Natalija Ju Address Naugarduko st. 91-311, LT-03160, Vilnius, Lithuania Phone +370 682 23 949 E-mail info@studijaju.com Website www.studijaju.com
This is a story about identity lost, identity chosen and identity found. The documentary Russian French Family of Ivanovs is a family chronicle. This is also a story of an ancient song’s origin, which helps the family understand their roots, to restore the breaking-off of family relations. IN PRODUCTION
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DIRECTORS Marta Dauliūtė, Elisabeth Marjanović Cronvall SCRIPT WRITERS Marta Dauliūtė, Elisabeth Marjanović Cronvall CINEMATOGRAPHER Elisabeth Marjanović Cronvall EDITOR Elisabeth Marjanović Cronvall PRODUCERS Marta Dauliūtė, Elisabeth Marjanović Cronvall PHOTO BY Elisabeth Marjanović Cronvall PRODUCTION ‘MDEMC‘ (Sweden). CONTACTS
SECOND CLASS ANTRA KLASĖ
Marta Dauliūtė Address Russinvägen 40 bv, 123 59, Farsta, Sweden Phone +467 035 48 189 E-mail marta@mdemc.se
2012 • 60 min • HD, DCP Colour
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‘Do you feel cheaper?’ We are filming Lithuanian migrant working men in Sweden. They do not want to be on camera, they do not want to participate in creating one more media image for guilt and pity. They film us; we empty a bottle of moonshine, we dance on their porch. They might let us film them tomorrow. Second Class is a time document about social class and respect, value of work and of human being. COMPLETED
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Swedish Alternative Film Prize ‘HETS’, 2013 (Sweden). FESTIVALS Canadian International Documentary Festival ‘Hot Docs‘, 2013 (Canada); Gothenburg International Film Festival, 2013 (Sweden); 10th European Film Forum ‘Scanorama’, 2012 (Lithuania).
SCRIPT WRITERS Arūnas Matelis, Arūnas Spraunius, Ramunė Rakauskaitė CINEMATOGRAPHER Eitvydas Doškus PRODUCER Algimantė Matelienė ILLUSTRATION BY Karolis Strautniekas PRODUCTION Studio Nominum (Lithuania). CONTACTS Address A. Goštauto st. 2/15, LT- 01104, Vilnius, Lithuania Phone +370 612 41 012 E-mail grupe1@nominum.lt Website www.nominum.lt
SECOND-HAND SECOND-HAND 2014 • 75 min • HD Colour Second-Hand is a portrait of people either from London or Lithuania who gather second-hand clothes. The film is a cross-section of their life: overwhelming, moving and shocking. It is a picture of their fate comprised of lightly ironic and lively, touching and yet very exceptional stories with a certain criminal undertone. Second-Hand – a tragicomedy of human desires based on so far little known facts both to Britons and Lithuanians. PRE-PRODUCTION
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DIRECTOR Gvidas Kovėra SCRIPT WRITER Gvidas Kovėra CINEMATOGRAPHERS Gvidas Kovėra, Andrius Seliuta COMPOSER Gvidas Kovėra EDITOR Gvidas Kovėra PRODUCERS Teresa Rožanovska, Gvidas Kovėra PRODUCTION ‘Ketvirta versija’ (Lithuania). CONTACTS
SHEEP IN THE SKY DEBESŲ AVELĖS 2013 • 60 min • HD Colour It is a film about people living close to the ground and about clouds that turned into sheep – a film about beauty of countrymen, about the joy of being yourself and a little bit about love... POST-PRODUCTION
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Teresa Rožanovska Address Revonių st. 8-2, LT-03154, Vilnius, Lithuania Phone +370 618 07 994 E-mail t.ziboliene@gmail.com Website www.ketvirtaversija.lt
DIRECTOR Juozas Javaitis SCRIPT WRITERS Juozas Javaitis, Pranas Morkus CINEMATOGRAPHER Donatas Buklys COMPOSER Ignas Juzokas SOUND RECORDIST Ramūnas Jasutis EDITOR Romuald Lavrynovič PRODUCER Teresa Rožanovska PHOTO BY Teresa Rožanovska PRODUCTION ‘Ketvirta versija’ (Lithuania), ‘Media Kontakt’ (Poland). CONTACTS
THE AGE OF CZESŁAW MIŁOSZ ČESLOVO MILOŠO AMŽIUS 2012 • 180 min • HD Colour
Teresa Rožanovska Address Revonių st. 8-2, LT-03154, Vilnius, Lithuania Phone +370 618 07 994 E-mail t.ziboliene@gmail.com Website www.ketvirtaversija.lt
The six parts of the film The Age of Czesław Miłosz are comprised of stories told by famous cultural figures who knew Czesław Miłosz and these are interlaced with little-known facts about the poet’s life. The Age of Czesław Miłosz is not merely a biographical narrative or an introduction to the work of a poet considered to be one of the 20th century’s best, but rather an extraordinary peek into the life of the man and his timeless work. At the beginning of a new millennium, his work allows us to focus not on the differences between people, but rather to endeavour to find a commonality for all. COMPLETED
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DIRECTOR Ramunė Rakauskaitė SCRIPT WRITER Ramunė Rakauskaitė CINEMATOGRAPHER Audrius Kemežys EDITOR Kostas Radlinskas PRODUCERS Algimantė Matelienė, Arūnas Matelis PHOTO BY Gintautas Beržinskas PRODUCTION Studio Nominum (Lithuania). CONTACTS
THE CITIES OF THE THREE HATS TRIJŲ SKRYBĖLIŲ MIESTAI 2013 • 52 min • HD Colour A documentary film about three unique artists who always wear a hat and their three cities, totally different from each other. POST-PRODUCTION
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Address A. Goštauto st. 2/15, LT- 01104, Vilnius, Lithuania Phone +370 612 41 012 E-mail grupe1@nominum.lt Website www.nominum.lt
DIRECTOR Jonas Ohmanas SCRIPT WRITERS Jonas Ohmanas, Jurga Jonutytė CINEMATOGRAPHERS Jonas Ohmanas, Eitvydas Doškus, Virgilijus Kubilius, Teresa Rožanovska SOUND RECORDIST Jonas Ohmanas EDITORS Jonas Ohmanas, Virgilijus Kubilius PRODUCERS Teresa Rožanovska, Jonas Ohmanas PRODUCTION ‘Ketvirta versija’ (Lithuania), ‘Language 16‘ (Sweden). CONTACTS
THE GREEN MUSKETEERS ŽALIEJI MUŠKIETININKAI 2013 • 60 min • HD Colour
Teresa Rožanovska Address Revonių st. 8-2, LT-03154, Vilnius, Lithuania Phone +370 618 07 994 E-mail t.ziboliene@gmail.com Website www.ketvirtaversija.lt
The epic tale about one of the leading ecology and ethnology organisations ‘Atgaja‘ in Lithuania in the 1980s. Consisting of a rather disparate group of mostly young people ‘Atgaja‘, performing radical and creative protests against the Soviet hegemony, formed one of the crucial foundations for the growing independence movement. ‘Atgaja‘ – the gripping story about the founder and undisputed leader of the organisation, Saulius Gricius, a fighter and an idealist with a character far beyond the ordinary. POST-PRODUCTION
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DIRECTOR Algirdas Tarvydas SCRIPT WRITER Algirdas Tarvydas CINEMATOGRAPHER Algirdas Tarvydas COMPOSER Algimantas Apanavičius SOUND RECORDIST Vaclovas Nevčesauskas EDITOR Vaclovas Nevčesauskas PRODUCER Algirdas Tarvydas PRODUCTION ‘Dokumentika’ (Lithuania), Lithuanian Radio and Television (LRT). CONTACTS
THE MYSTERY OF CREATION KŪRYBOS MĮSLĖ 2012 • 54 min • DVCAM 4:3 Colour A documentary about famous Lithuanian sculptor Dalia Matulaitė. The film dwells on what the artist finds most important in sculpture, what she aims to embody in cold stone, what sensations and visions she tried to convey in her work. While visiting her work displayed across Lithuania and in Poland she recalls her long-forgotten creative torment. The film conveys the artist’s silent concentration and her glowing spirit alongside the work of art as it is born in her studio. COMPLETED
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Algirdas Tarvydas Address Apkasų st. 35-29, LT-08226, Vilnius, Lithuania Phone +370 698 82 544 E-mail atarvydas@takas.lt
DIRECTOR Ričardas Marcinkus SCRIPT WRITER Ričardas Marcinkus CINEMATOGRAPHER Ričardas Marcinkus COMPOSER Dovilė Šeštavickienė EDITING CONSULTANTS Juozas Javaitis, Audrius Stonys, Gailė Garnelytė PRODUCER Rimantė Daugėlaitė PHOTO BY Ričardas Marcinkus PRODUCTION ‘Full Screen’ (Lithuania). CONTACTS
THE ULTIMATE GOAL GALUTINIS TIKSLAS
Rimantė Daugėlaitė Address A. Smetonos st. 7a-24, LT-01115, Vilnius, Lithuania Phone +370 673 16 548 E-mail info@filmshorts.lt
2013 • 70 min • HD, DCP Colour The documentary The Ultimate Goal tells the controversial life story of Povilas Marcinkus. The 55-years-old man arrives to a nursing home in Lioliu village after 28 years spent in jail. One-legged and drug-addicted Povilas becomes the unofficial ‘boss’ of the nursing home manipulating and violently abusing the villagers and the elderly people living with him in the same institution. The comfortable life of Povilas comes to an end when he harasses a store-keeper with a knife. He moves to Vilnius where he survives as a beggar. Unfortunately, he meets the love of his life – the drug addicted homeless Snezhana who encourages Povilas to get back to drugs. Powerless, Povilas has no more control over his life, as it turns around his daily drug dose. His only hope is to be treated in a rehabilitation center. Unfortunately, Povilas is still hesitating to take a decision. POST-PRODUCTION 33
DIRECTOR Šarūnas Mikulskis SCRIPT WRITER Šarūnas Mikulskis CINEMATOGRAPHERS Audrius Zelenius, Linas Dabriška PRODUCER Asta Valčiukaitė PRODUCTION ‘Kultūrinių projektų centras’, CUMA projects (Lithuania). CONTACTS
THERE’S NO FISH HERE ČIA ŽUVIES NĖRA 2014 • 70 min and 52 min • DCP Colour This is a documentary about vanishing fishermen in Neringa. The hard, archaic and penniless job of a fisherman is creating a gap between the old and the young generations. Fishermen are finding it hard to maintain and pass on their settled values in this modern fast-changing world. Who can do a job like this? Only a man crazy about fishing... IN PRODUCTION
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Asta Valčiukaitė Address V. Čarneckio st. 138-1, LT-11311, Vilnius, Lithuania Phone +370 676 37 996 E-mail asta@cuma.lt Website www.cuma.lt
DIRECTORS Vytautas V. Landsbergis, Agnė Marcinkevičiūtė SCRIPT WRITER Vytautas V. Landsbergis CINEMATOGRAPHERS Kristina Sereikaitė, Arvydas Liorančas, Gvidas Kovėra COMPOSERS Ieva Narkutė, Martynas Levickis EDITOR Tomas Rugys PRODUCER Vytautas V. Landsbergis PHOTO BY Gintautas Beržinskas PRODUCTION ‘A Propos studija’ (Lithuania). CONTACTS
TRICOLOUR TRISPALVIS
Paulius Juočeris Address Tylioji st. 3, Vilnius, LT-02233, Vilnius, Lithuania Phone +370 618 87 174 E-mail paulius@ironcat.lt
2013 • ~60 min • DV Colour The film Tricolour remembers the Lithuanian partisans. Three plot lines are like three colours of Lithuanian flag. Red: post-war partisans and messengers, stories about their life changing moments, feelings and memories. Green: the boys are building a bunker in the woods and playing partisans. Yellow: Ieva Narkutė’s concert of patriotic songs to yellow oak trees and partisan ghosts in Dūkštas oak forest. POST-PRODUCTION
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DIRECTORS Robert Dennis, Mark Byrne SCRIPT WRITERS Robert Dennis, Mark Byrne CINEMATOGRAPHER Mark Byrne COMPOSER Martynas Bialobžeskis GRAPHIC DESIGNER Ramūnas Gilys EDITORS Robert Dennis, Kostas Radlinskas PRODUCERS Jeremiah Cullinane, Rasa Miškinytė, Bartolomeo Dibbenedetto PRODUCTION ERA FILM (Lithuania), ‘Planet Korda Pictures’ (Ireland). CONTACTS
UNDER THE HOOD STEBIMI / ПОД КОЛПАКОМ 2013 • 75 min • DCP Colour In Belarus some battle for democracy while others struggle to survive. Under the Hood brings us on a journey through a country where the secret police is still known as the KGB and public gatherings are considered to be a crime. The film takes us from the protests and secret opposition meetings in the capital, Minsk, to the horse-drawn carts and hand-tilled fields of the countryside, following the lives of businessman Yuri, villager Lyudmila, youth opposition leader Franak and journalists Eduard and Viktor. Their stories remind us how close Belarus is to the rest of Europe – and yet how very far away. COMPLETED
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Rasa Miškinytė Address K. Ladygos st. 1-119, LT-08235, Vilnius, Lithuania Phone +370 682 96 128 E-mail rasa@erafilm.lt Website www.erafilm.lt
DIRECTOR Vytautas V. Landsbergis SCRIPT WRITER Vytautas V. Landsbergis CINEMATOGRAPHER Gvidas Kovėra COMPOSER Eglė Sirvydytė ART DIRECTOR Tomas Mitkus EDITORS Tomas Rugys, Mindaugas Galkus PRODUCER Laura Almantaitė PHOTO BY Gvidas Kovėra PRODUCTION ‘A Propos Studija’ (Lithuania). CONTACTS
VAINETA VAINETA
Laura Almantaitė Address Nemenčinės pl. 8-5, Vilnius, Lithuania Phone +370 698 27 519 E-mail laura@cmconsulting.lt
2014 • 60 min • HD Colour This documentary is an optimistic portrait of a young girl fighting her disability with admirable strength and positivity. The footage will be combined with animation and beautiful soundtrack composed by Eglė Sirvydytė. PRE-PRODUCTION
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DIRECTOR Rytis Zemkauskas SCRIPT WRITER Rytis Zemkauskas CINEMATOGRAPHER Rolandas Leonavičius COMPOSER Leonas Somovas PRODUCER Marija Fridinovaitė PHOTO BY Protingas Chamas PRODUCTION ‘Baltic productions’ (Lithuania). CONTACTS Marija Fridinovaitė Address Labdarių st. 6-1, LT-01120 Vilnius, Lithuania Phone +370 678 01 868 E-mail fridinovaite@gmail.com
VILNE VILNE 2015 • 80 min Colour Vilne tells about Vilnius, Jerusalem of Lithuania. The documentary includes dialogues and discussions with Jews who call themselves Litvaks and their descendants scattered all over the world. This movie will be constructed as an urban myth while telling the story as well as showing the influence of Jews upon Lithuanian history. PRE-PRODUCTION
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DIRECTOR Audrius Juzėnas SCRIPT WRITERS Audrius Juzėnas, Gintautas Dailyda, Alma Čepienė CINEMATOGRAPHER Gintautas Dailyda COMPOSER Vidmantas Bartulis EDITOR Vilma Bagdžiuvienės PRODUCER Gintautas Dailyda PRODUCTION ‘Seansas’ (Lithuania). CONTACTS
ZERO TIME ZONE NULINIO LAIKO ZONA
Gintautas Dailyda Address Varnių st. 45, LT-48413, Kaunas, Lithuania Phone +370 675 40 011 E-mail seansas@seansas.eu Website www.seansas.eu
2012 • 60 min • Video, Blu-ray Colour This film is about those who were sentenced to death but were left alive... What would they choose now if they were allowed: death penalty or life imprisonment? What is life like in the ‘zero time zone’ where time does not have any duration...? Does penance save one from the heaviest penalty and provide a remission? Does each of us conceal ‘a gene of the death penalty’? Truth and justice – incompatible ‘Siamese twins’? An offender and a victim – a game which we start to play in childhood and continue to play all our lives? COMPLETED
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DIRECTOR Giedrė Beinoriūtė SCRIPT WRITER Giedrė Beinoriūtė CINEMATOGRAPHER Audrius Kemežys EDITORS Giedrė Beinoriūtė, Danielius Kokanauskis, Paul Morris PRODUCERS Jurga Gluskinienė, Ilona Bičevska PRODUCTION ‘Monoklis’ (Lithuania), ‘Avantis Promo’ (Latvia), ‘Arte France’ (France), ‘Alegria Production’ (France). CONTACTS
AN EXPERT SPECIALISTĖ 2012 • 16 min • HD • 16:9 Colour ‘You need to work every day, every day, every day’, – Eglė hears an ant shouting from a speaker. Eglė is a sound design student and she is recording sounds for the radio adaptation of a tale by Sergey Kozlov. Eglė wants to become an expert. And she definitely will. Film is a part of documentary project 15 YOUNG BY YOUNG. COMPLETED
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Jurga Gluskinienė Address Naugarduko st. 34, LT-03228, Vilnius, Lithuania Phone +370 687 90 681 E-mail jurga@monoklis.lt Website www.monoklis.lt FESTIVALS 60th Belgrade International Documentary and Short Film Festival, 2013 (Serbia); 17th Vilnius International Film Festival ‘Kino pavasaris’, 2012 (Lithuania); Riga ‘Freedom‘ Film Festival, 2012 (Latvia).
DIRECTOR Valentas Aškinis SCRIPT WRITER Valentas Aškinis CINEMATOGRAPHER Valentas Aškinis COMPOSER Kipras Mašanauskas EDITOR Valentas Aškinis ART DIRECTOR Jūratė Leikaitė-Aškinienė PRODUCER Valentas Aškinis PHOTO BY Valentas Aškinis PRODUCTION ‘Vilanimos filmų studija’ (Lithuania). CONTACTS
ANIMATION MAGIC ANIMACIJOS MAGIJA
Valentas Aškinis Address Antakalnio st. 116-33, LT-10200, Kaunas, Lithuania Phone +370 610 47 151 E-mail tindirindis_festival@yahoo.com
2012 • 30 min • DVD, Betacam, Mini DV Colour The movie reveals the creation process and behind the scenes of the animation film Laima Determines the Destiny. The director of the animation Jūratė Leikaitė tells how the scenario of the animation was born, how she created a complex structure of the cartoon. The Animation Magic presents the uncoloured draft animated scenes, while for comparison the concluded scenes are shown, where the characters are combined with backgrounds, the colour image is enriched with special computer effects. COMPLETED
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DIRECTOR Inesa Kurklietytė SCRIPT WRITER Inesa Kurklietytė CINEMATOGRAPHERS Algimantas Mikutėnas, Adomas Jablonskis, Inesa Kurklietytė COMPOSER Ramūnas Jasutis EDITORS Ričardas Matačius, Adomas Jablonskis SOUND RECORDIST Ramūnas Jasutis PRODUCERS Ramūnas Abukevičius PHOTO BY Adomas Jablonskis PRODUCTION ‘Ramūno ateljė’ (Lithuania). CONTACTS
CUCKOOS’ CHILDREN GEGUČIŲ VAIKAI 2013 • 25 min • DCP Colour Twelve abandoned children live in a remote country house near the town of Šilutė. Their mother Ona was an orphan herself. Ona takes her foster children to meet their real mothers. She wants them to know their roots. Three colourful meetings after not seeing each other for several years. Do cuckoos recognise their children? COMPLETED
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Ramūnas Abukevičius Address Latako st. 1-1, Vilnius, LT-01125, Vilnius, Lithuania Phone +370 699 65 912 E-mail ramuno.atelje@gmail.com Website www.ramuno-atelje.lt FESTIVALS 18 th Vilnius International Film Festival ‘Kino pavasaris’, 2013 (Lithuania).
DIRECTOR Linas Mikuta SCRIPT WRITER Linas Mikuta CINEMATOGRAPHER Kristina Sereikaitė EDITORS Linas Mikuta, Kristina Sereikaitė PRODUCER Jurga Gluskinienė PRODUCTION ‘Monoklis’ (Lithuania), CONTACTS Jurga Gluskinienė Address Naugarduko st. 34, LT-03228, Vilnius, Lithuania Phone +370 687 90 681 E-mail jurga@monoklis.lt Website www.monoklis.lt
DINNER PIETŪS LIPOVKĖJE 2013 • 28 min • DCP, 16:9 Colour There is an old building standing in Vilnius, Liepkalnis Street. Every day between 1 p.m. and 4 p.m. people can see a diverse crowd standing by the entrance. Most of the crowd lives on the periphery of society, having no status or stable income. The search for a hot meal brings them all here, but it provides more than just food for their stomachs. The half hour of waiting in the queue is the time when these people can open up to each other without feeling ashamed. Rejected by respectable society, they are destined to be among the brothers and sisters who have lost their social skin and privacy barriers. POST-PRODUCTION
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DIRECTOR Petras Savickis SCRIPT WRITER Liudvika Pociūnienė CINEMATOGRAPHERS Audrius Kemežys, Vytas Plytnikas COMPOSER Vladimir Tarasov EDITOR Eimantas Belickas PRODUCERS Teresa Rožanovska PRODUCTION ‘Ketvirta versija’ (Lithuania). CONTACTS
DISSIDENTS DISIDENTAI 2013 • 42 min • HD Colour In the film we talk about eternal values, and the role of the dissident in the modern world, with the people belonging to the active minority, and whose perseverance led to the disintegration of the Soviet empire. In the hands of that active minority also lies the future of the slowly degrading Western civilization. We live in times of confusion and depreciation of values – such phenomenon accompanied each collapse of a great civilisation, but they were always replaced with other, more complex and more coherent systems of values. Who knows, we might actually stand on the brink of radical change? COMPLETED
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Teresa Rožanovska Address Revonių st. 8-2, LT-03154, Vilnius, Lithuania Phone +370 618 07 994 E-mail t.ziboliene@gmail.com Website www.ketvirtaversija.lt
DIRECTORS Mikas Žukauskas, Gintarė Valevičiūtė SCRIPT WRITERS Mikas Žukauskas, Gintarė Valevičiūtė CINEMATOGRAPHER Mikas Žukauskas EDITOR Mikas Žukauskas PRODUCERS Juozas Javaitis, Mikas Žukauskas PRODUCTION ROLLD (Lithuania), Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre. CONTACTS
GOD CREATED EVERYTHING BUT A CARPET DIEVAS SUKŪRĖ VISKĄ, IŠSKYRUS KILIMĄ 2012 • 25 min • HD, BLU-RAY Colour Li-Fraumeni Syndrome (LFS) is an extremely rare genetic disorder which greatly increases susceptibility to cancer of various localizations. This hereditary gene mutation is found only in one or two people in a million... This fatal circumstance marks everyday life of two young charismatic film heroines, Aida and Roberta. Behind their simple words and ordinary activities throughout ascetic frames of the film, ‘God created everything but a carpet’ hides the real struggle with challenging fate.
Mikas Žukauskas Address J.Basanavičiaus st. 30-37, Vilnius, Lithuania Phone +370 615 46 752 E-mail mikaszukauskas@gmail.com AWARDS Lithuanian Film and TV Industry Awards ‘Silver Crane 2012‘, prize for the best short documentary film. FESTIVALS 17th Vilnius International Film Festival ‘Kino pavasaris’, 2012 (Lithuania); 4th International film festival ‘Baltijos banga‘, 2012 (Lithuania).
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DIRECTOR Oksana Buraja SCRIPT WRITER Oksana Buraja CINEMATOGRAPHER Kristina Sereikaitė EDITOR Oksana Buraja PRODUCER Uljana Kim PRODUCTION Studio Uljana Kim (Lithuania), ‘Acuba Film’ (Estonia). CONTACTS Uljana Kim Address Antakalnio st. 94-25, LT-10202, Vilnius, Lithuania Phone +370 699 26 552 E-mail kim@lfc.lt
LISA, GO HOME! LIZA, NAMO! 2012 • 27 min • HD Colour The soul of the child does not want to reconcile with her surroundings. The filmmakers made an effort to record what reflects the generation gap between the little girl Lisa and the world of adults in her family. ‘Why are you always running away? What are you missing?’ The little girl hears these questions relentlessly. However, how is it possible to explain, what is only clear to her own soul – what is within the indescribably fragile existence of a child? COMPLETED
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AWARDS Festival International de Films de Femmes de Créteil, 2013 (France), Best European Short Film Award; 10th European Film Forum ‘Scanorama‘, 2012 (Lithuania), Best Lithuanian Short Film at the competition programme ‘New Baltic Cinema‘. FESTIVALS 18th Vilnius International Film Festival ‘Kino pavasaris’, 2013 (Lithuania); Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival, Lab competition, 2013 (France); 15th One World International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival, 2013 (Czech Republic); 12th International Film Festival of Altkirch, 2013 (France); 20th Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival, 2013 (Canada); 55th International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film, Short Documentary Competition , 2012 (Germany).
DIRECTOR Ramunė Rakauskaitė SCRIPT WRITER Ramunė Rakauskaitė CINEMATOGRAPHER Eitvydas Doškus COMPOSER Domas Strupinskas EDITORS Kostas Radlinskas, Valdas Misevičius PRODUCER Algimantė Matelienė, Rolandas Skaisgirys PRODUCTION Studio Nominum (Lithuania), Studija ‘Metrovideo’ (Lithuania). CONTACTS
LIVING AMONG GRASSES ŽALUMOSE 2012 • 29 min • HD Colour A story about women of incredible destiny and mission: to some people they are sorcerers or witches but to others – saviours who cure people suffering from dangerous illnesses using herbs and incantations. These three herbalists, today’s Avicennas, have suffered painful and tragic breakdowns in their own lives, and found salvation from the ups and downs of the body and soul, as well as solitude in herbs. They live in harmony with nature, with its many treasures and secrets similar to those in pharmaceutical laboratories.
Address A. Goštauto st. 2/15, LT-01104, Vilnius, Lithuania Phone +370 612 41 012 E-mail grupe1@nominum.lt Website www.nominum.lt AWARDS Special prize at the International Film Festival ‘Ekotopfilm’, (Slovakia). FESTIVALS 17 th Vilnius International Film Festival ‘Kino pavasaris’, 2012 (Lithuania); International film festival ‘Baltijos banga‘, 2012 (Lithuania).
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DIRECTOR Juozas Matonis SCRIPT WRITER Juozas Matonis CINEMATOGRAPHER Juozas Matonis COMPOSERS Antanas Kučinskas, Arnoldas Gurinavičius SOUND RECORDIST Viktoras Juzonis EDITOR Linas Grubys PRODUCER Juozas Matonis CONTACTS Juozas Matonis Address Ozo st. 19-21, Vilnius, Lithuania Phone +370 699 88 294 E-mail Juozasmato@gmail.com
ON THE WHITE ALLEY BALTAM SKERSKGATVY 2012 • 37 min • Digital Video PAL 4:3 Colour The White Alley is a place where unusual people meet daily. They philosophise and create, work and sing, feel sorrow and laugh. They are like others and yet different. They are never insincere. The film tells about their inner world, sensitive vibrations of their soul. These people are people with intellectual disabilities. COMPLETED
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DIRECTOR Tomas Smulkis SCRIPT WRITER Tomas Smulkis CINEMATOGRAPHER Mariana Kassess COMPOSER Lina Lapelytė EDITOR Martina Jablonskytė PRODUCERS Ieva Bužinskaitė, Jurga Gluskinienė PRODUCTION ‘Monoklis’ (Lithuania), Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre. CONTACTS
PARADISE ROAD ROJAUS BEIEŠKANT 2012 • 20 min • HD Colour Sometimes you wake up with an idea you had in a dream and cannot forget it – it grows into a vision you can never escape from. In this film we follow director Tomas Smulkis in his quest to meet the Swedish filmmaker Roy Andersson and to work with him. A quest, in which an increasingly vital role goes to the city of Stockholm. But can dreams actually come true?
Jurga Gluskinienė Address Naugarduko st. 34, LT-03228, Vilnius, Lithuania Phone +370 687 90 681 E-mail jurga@monoklis.lt Website www.monoklis.lt FESTIVALS 41st Huesca International Film Festival, 2013 (Spain); Vilnius Documentary Film Festival, 2012 (Lithuania).
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DIRECTOR Audrius Antanavičius SCRIPT WRITER Audrius Antanavičius CINEMATOGRAPHER Eitvydas Doškus SOUND RECORDIST Ignas Lungevičius PRODUCER Marija Razgutė PHOTO BY Eitvydas Doškus PRODUCTION ‘Čiobreliai’ (Lithuania). Marija Razgutė Address D.Gerbutavičiaus st. 10-91, LT-04317, Vilnius, Lithuania Phone +370 601 07 802 E-mail marija@ciobreliai.lt Website www.ciobreliai.lt
THE AMATEURS MĖGĖJAI 2013 • 15 min • RED, DCP Colour Vitolis Laumakys and Adolfas Morėnas accidentally met in the street when Adolfas was repairing his motorcycle. During a short chat they shared their admiration for cinema. Adolfas revealed he had an 8 mm film camera – so, they started filming. In 1962 film studio ‘The Amateur’ was established and it soon became the most successful and famous Lithuanian amateur film studio. IN PRODUCTION
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DIRECTOR Remigijus Sabulis SCRIPT WRITER Remigijus Sabulis, Sigitas Siudika CINEMATOGRAPHER Kęstutis Petrulis PRODUCTION ‘Studija 2’ (Lithuania). Kęstutis Petrulis, Arūnas Stoškus Address S. Konarskio st. 49, LT-03123, Vilnius, Lithuania Phone +370 520 56 055, +370 698 08 876 E-mail studija2@zebra.lt
THE MYSTERY OF LITUANICA LITUANIKOS PASLAPTIS 2013 • 30 min • Full HD Colour The film is not about the death of the two Americans of the Lithuanian origin – it is about their immortal flight over the Atlantic. The story takes us back to the beginning of the 20th century. Lithuanian emigrant military pilot S.Darius generated the idea of the first to-be-immortal Lithuanian flight over the Atlantic. The film is the legend of the tragic perishing of the two pilots. PRE-PRODUCTION
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DIRECTOR Janina Lapinskaitė SCRIPT WRITER Janina Lapinskaitė CINEMATOGRAPHER Tomas Eigertas SOUND BY Jonas Maksvytis EDITOR Janina Sabeckienė PRODUCER Uljana Kim PHOTO BY Tomas Eigertas PRODUCTION Studio Uljana Kim (Lithuania). CONTACTS Kristijonas Puipa Address Antakalnio st. 94-25, LT-10202, Vilnius, Lithuania Phone +370 655 63 375
YESTERDAY WILL BE TOMORROW VAKAR BUS RYTOJ 2013 • 27 min • HD, DCP Colour Camera in the hands of Tomas, a young employee at the care home, does not disturb residents’ daily routine. New technologies, on the contrary, arouse their curiosity. Short pauses in front of the camera, spreading wisdom, irony, love and hope design a picturesque but fragile mosaic of life. POST-PRODUCTION
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DIRECTOR Dali Rust SCRIPT WRITER Dali Rust CINEMATOGRAPHER Mantas Šatkus EDITOR Andrius Paškevičius PRODUCER Algimantė Matelienė, Rolandas Skaisgirys PRODUCTION Studio Nominum (Lithuania), Studija ‘Metrovideo’ (Lithuania). CONTACTS
ZONE ZONA 2012 • 23 min • HD Colour
Address A. Goštauto st. 2/15, LT-01104, Vilnius, Lithuania Phone +370 612 41 012 E-mail grupe1@nominum.lt Website www.nominum.lt AWARDS ‘El Món dels Viatges Festival‘, 2012 (Spain), Special prize.
There is a colony of cormorants in the Curonian Spit. While there were just a few birds, they were inscribed into the Lithuanian Red Book. However, the number of birds increased over 30 years and they became the number one enemy in the region. Man felt threatened, because the cormorants took part of the fishermen’s catch and they expanded their territory in the old woods. What is the precise number of birds that would ensure they are not dangerous to consumers? The cormorants’ colony is a splendid example of the relationship between people and their surroundings. COMPLETED
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FEATURE DOCUMENTARIES 1410. Known Unknown Žalgiris / 1410. Žinomas Nežinomas Žalgiris ...…................................................... 2 A Fall as a Part of the Flight / Kritimas kaip skrydžio dalis ................................................................................ 3 Alcofootball / Alkofutbolas .......................................................................................................................................... 4 Cenotaph / Kenotafas ...................................................................................................................................................... 5 Conversations on Serious Topics / Pokalbiai rimtomis temomis .................................................................... 6 Donaleitis / Donaleitis .................................................................................................................................................... 7 Dreaming the Path / Sapnuoju, kad einu ................................................................................................................ 8 Dzūkija’s Bull / Dzūkijos jautis ...................................................................................................................................... 9 Endless Corridor / Begalinis koridorius ...................................................................................................................... 10 Father / Tėvas .................................................................................................................................................................... 11 Five / Penki .......................................................................................................................................................................... 12 Game of the Nation / Mes už… Lietuvą! ................................................................................................................... 13 Gintaras Varnas / Gintaras Varnas ............................................................................................................................. 14 Igrushki / Igruški ................................................................................................................................................................ 15 In the Realm of Fall Heralds / Rudens šauklių valdose ........................................................................................ 16 Julia / Julia ........................................................................................................................................................................... 17 Katia / Katia ........................................................................................................................................................................ 18 Lida. Vanda. Liusia / Lida. Vanda. Liusia ................................................................................................................... 19 Luckus / Luckus ................................................................................................................................................................. 20 Maat / Maat ....................................................................................................................................................................... 21 Marina’s House / Marinos namai ............................................................................................................................... 22 Phenomenon / Fenomenas .......................................................................................................................................... 23 RadvILIAD / RadvILIADA. Savasties paieškos ......................................................................................................... 24 Russian French Family of Ivanovs / Prancūzų Ivanovų šeima .......................................................................... 25 Second Class / Antra klasė ............................................................................................................................................ 26 Second-Hand / Second-Hand ...................................................................................................................................... 27 Sheep in the Sky / Debesų avelės ............................................................................................................................... 28 The Age of Czesław Miłosz / Česlovo Milošo amžius ......................................................................................... 29 The Cities of the Three Hats / Trijų skrybėlių miestai ........................................................................................ 30 The Green Musketeers / Žalieji muškietininkai ..................................................................................................... 31 The Mystery of Creation / Kūrybos mįslė ............................................................................................................... 32 The Ultimate Goal / Galutinis tikslas ....................................................................................................................... 33 There’s No Fish Here / Čia žuvies nėra .................................................................................................................... 34 Tricolour / Trispalvis ....................................................................................................................................................... 35 Under the Hood / Stebimi / Под kолпаком ......................................................................................................... 36 Vaineta / Vaineta ............................................................................................................................................................ 37 Vilne / Vilne ....................................................................................................................................................................... 38 Zero Time Zone / Nulinio laiko zona ........................................................................................................................ 39
SHORT DOCUMENTARIES An Expert / Specialistė ...….............................................................................................................................................. 42 Animation Magic / Animacijos magija ...................................................................................................................... 43 Cuckoos’ Children / Gegučių vaikai ........................................................................................................................... 44 Dinner / Pietūs Lipovkėje ................................................................................................................................................ 45 Dissidents / Disidentai .................................................................................................................................................... 46 God Created Everything but a Carpet / Dievas sukūrė viską, išskyrus kilimą ............................................. 47 Lisa, Go Home! / Liza, namo! ........................................................................................................................................ 48 Living Among Grasses / Žalumose .............................................................................................................................. 49 On the White Alley / Baltam skerskgatvy ............................ ................................................................................... 50 Paradise Road / Rojaus beieškant ................................................................................................................................ 51 The Amateurs / Mėgėjai ................................................................................................................................................. 52 The Mystery of Lituanica / Lituanikos paslaptis ..................................................................................................... 53 Yesterday Will Be Tomorrow / Vakar bus rytoj ....................................................................................................... 54 Zone / Zona ........................................................................................................................................................................ 55
PRODUCTION COMPANIES
A Propos studija (Lithuania) ........................................................................................................................ 35, 37 Acuba Films (Estonia) …........................................................................................................................................ 48 Alegria Production (France) …............................................................................................................................. 42 Arte France (France) ….......................................................................................................................................... 42 Audiovizualinio meno centras (Lithuania) ...................................................................................................... 13 Avantis Promo (Latvia) …...................................................................................................................................... 42 Baltic Productions (Lithuania) ....................................................................................................................... 2, 38 Belarusian Video Centre (Belarus) .................................................................................................................... 19 Concept events & media (Lithuania) .......................................................................................................... 4, 23 Culture Bridge (Lithuania) ................................................................................................................................... 10 Čiobreliai (Lithuania) .........................................................................................................................................… 52 Dokumentika (Lithuania) ..................................................................................................................................... 32 ERA FILM (Lithuania) ........................................................................................................................................ 8, 36 Friends Production (Lithuania) ........................................................................................................................... 14 Full Screen (Lithuania) .......................................................................................................................................... 33 Gamma Bak Filmproduktion (Germany) ......................................................................................................... 17 Indastria Film (Italy) .............................................................................................................................................. 12 J. Jackie Baier Filmproduktion (Germany) ...................................................................................................... 17 Just a moment (Lithuania) .............................................................................................. 11, 12, 15, 17, 20, 22 Kauno kino studija (Lithuania) ........................................................................................................................... 13 Ketvirta versija (Lithuania) ......................................................................................... 4, 14, 23, 28, 29, 31, 46 Kultūrinių projektų centras, CUMA Projects (Lithuania) ............................................................................ 34 Language 16 (Sweden) ......................................................................................................................................... 31 Leitmotiv Production (France) ............................................................................................................................. 5 LitFilmas (Lithuania) .............................................................................................................................................. 19 Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre ........................................................................................ 9, 47, 51 Lithuanian Basketball Federation ....................................................................................................................... 13 Lithuanian Radio and Television ......................................................................................................................... 32 MDEMC (Sweden) .................................................................................................................................................. 26 Media Kontakt (Poland) ........................................................................................................................................ 29 Monoklis (Lithuania) …................................................................................................................... 6, 9, 42, 45, 51 Planet Korda Pictures (Ireland) ........................................................................................................................... 36 Ramūno ateljė (Lithuania) .............................................................................................................................. 7, 44 Red Fox (Estonia) ................................................................................................................................................... 18 ROLLD (Lithuania) ….............................................................................................................................................. 47 Seansas (Lithuania) ............................................................................................................................................… 39 Studija 2 (Lithuania) ....................................................................................................................................... 21, 53 Studija JU (Lithuania) ................................................................................................................................ 3, 18, 25 Studija Metrovideo (Lithuania) ................................................................................................................… 49, 55
Studio Nominum (Lithuania) ..................................................................................................... 24, 27, 30, 49, 55 Studio Uljana Kim (Lithuania) ..................................................................................................................... 5, 48, 54 TV Europa (Lithuania) ............................................................................................................................................... 16 Vides Filmu Studija (Latvia) .................................................................................................................................... 24 Vilanimos filmų studija (Lithuania) ...................................................................................................................‌ 43 Vita Aktiva (Russia) .................................................................................................................................................... 22
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