Sharunas Bartas

Melancholy portraits of the inhabitants of a corridor in a derelict tenement. By film-maker with great visual talent.

The originally nomadic people the Tofalars live in a remote corner of Siberia. Now housed in concrete homes, they struggle to keep up traditions and human contact. The drama of a disappearing people in the harsh Siberian landscape, by Lithuanian master Sharunas Bartas.

Sharunas 'Trys Dienos / Few of Us' Bartas makes the purest possible cinema. His films without narrative do with pictures what a symphony does with notes. Chosen by Hans Kroon, Trouw

Poetic short about an old man who lives in a flooded area of Lithuania.

Film like a beautiful landscape painting. On the boundary where the desert meets the sea, a virtually silent drama takes place. With the most beautiful light.

Poetic documentary about the life of the Russian poet Arseny Tarkovsky, father of master film maker Andrei. Director Amirchanian documented Arseny Tarkovsky's last years as well as Russia in the 20th century.

No real talkers, Bartas' characters. On the steppes of the Crimea, a group of dropouts, losers and criminals come together. These sombre and drinking men and nervously smoking women, the derelict houses and impassable roads, blocked by apparently deserted cattle and poultry have been portrayed blindingly.

The originally nomadic people the Tofalars live in a remote corner of Siberia. Now housed in concrete homes, they struggle to keep up traditions and human contact. The drama of a disappearing people in the harsh Siberian landscape, by Lithuanian master Sharunas Bartas.