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
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Back to the Family
A magnetising and quietly devastating portrait of family life defined by regret and recrimination.
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Seven Invisible Men
No real talkers, Bartas’ characters. On the steppes of the Crimea, a group of dropouts, losers and criminals come together. These sombre and
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Freedom
Film like a beautiful landscape painting. On the boundary where the desert meets the sea, a virtually silent drama takes place. With the most beaut
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Few of Us
The originally nomadic people the Tofalars live in a remote corner of Siberia. Now housed in concrete homes, they struggle to keep up traditions an
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Arseny Tarkovsky Eternal Presence
Poetic documentary about the life of the Russian poet Arseny Tarkovsky, father of master film maker Andrei. Director Amirchanian documented Arseny
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Koridorius
Melancholy portraits of the inhabitants of a corridor in a derelict tenement. By film-maker with great visual talent.
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Few of Us
The originally nomadic people the Tofalars live in a remote corner of Siberia. Now housed in concrete homes, they struggle to keep up traditions an
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Pavasaris
Poetic short about an old man who lives in a flooded area of Lithuania.
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The House
Sharunas ‘Trys Dienos / Few of Us’ Bartas makes the purest possible cinema. His films without narrative do with pictures what a symphon