Overview of articles
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Concrete Kids
Magical-realist musical about a lonely Lithuanian teenager trying to survive in a violent neighbourhood.Published on: -
Two Prosecutors
A stark but absorbing drama of a young prosecutor’s struggle for justice in Stalinist Russia.Published on: -
Lotus
A fantasy about Latvia’s first female director. Filmmaking as visual witchcraft – 24 spells per second.Published on: -
Back to the Family
A magnetising and quietly devastating portrait of family life defined by regret and recrimination.Published on: -
Hoofs on skates
In a winter wonderland, two friends are having a blast ice-skating on a frozen lake.Published on: -
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The Living Heroes
Four stories about childhood and youth. A poetic manifesto film of Soviet Lithuanian cinema in a splendidly restored version.Published on: -
The Year Before the War
Europe in 1913, seen through the prisms of ideological extremism, dangerous sex, existential doubt and psychoanalysis.Published on: -
Twittering Soul
At the dawn of the twentieth century, a small village in Lithuania prepares for doomsday.Published on: -
Revisiting Solaris
In this short film, Donatas Banionis returns after more than 40 years as Chris Kelvin, the protagonist from Tarkovsky’s film Solaris. The story is basPublished on:
