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30 Jan – 9 Feb 2025

Sharunas Bartas

Šarūnas BARTAS (1964, Lithuania) is one of the most internationally prominent Lithuanian film directors from the late 20th century. He was educated in directing at the Moscow Film Institute VGIK, after which he made his debut with Three Days (1992), which brought him the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury at Cannes. He made several features that form a wayward oeuvre. Bartas has also made two documentaries. He has won two FIPRESCI Awards, for both Three Days and The Corridor (1995). He was present at multiple editions of the Cannes Film Festival, with his film Peace to Us in Our Dreams (2015) having been screened in Director’s Fortnight in 2015 and In the Dusk being part of the Official Selection at Cannes in 2020. Bartas’ films, both feature and short, have been screened at multiple editions of IFFR.

Filmography

Tofalaria (1985), Praėjusios dienos atminimui/In Memory of a Day Gone By (1990, doc), Trys Dienos/Three Days (1991), Koridorius/The Corridor (1995), Mūsų nedaug/Few of Us (1996), Namai/The House (1997), Laisvė/Freedom (2000), Visions of Europe (2004), Septyni nematomi zmones/Seven Invisible Men (2005), Indigène d’Eurasie/Eastern Drift (2010), Ramybė mūsų sapnuose/Peace to Us in Our Dreams (2015), Šerkšnas/Frost (2017), Sutemose/In the Dusk (2019), Back to the Family (2024)

More info: Wikipedia, Šarūnas Bartas

Sharunas Bartas at IFFR