Šarūnas Bartas : 2020
Sutemose

Lithuania, 1948. The war is over, but the country is left in ruins. Untė is 19 years old and is a member of the Partisan movement resisting Soviet occupation. They do not fight on equal terms, but it is on this desperate struggle that the future of an entire people depends. At the age of discovery of life, Untė will also discover violence and treachery. The lines are blurred between the burning passion of his own youth and the cause for which he is fighting. He will invest himself wholeheartedly, even if it means losing his innocence and his life. Šarūnas Bartas's feature premiered in the Marché du Film event as part of the Official Selection at Festival de Cannes 2020.

Jurgis Matulevičius : 2019
Izaokas

The infamous Operation Barbarossa, the code-name for the Axis invasion of the Soviet Union, expanded to Kaunas in June of 1941. Between forty and sixty Jews were tortured and brutally killed in the incident known as the Lietūkis Garage Massacre. During the massacre a Lithuanian activist, Andrius Gluosnis, kills his Jewish neighbour, Isaac. Twenty-five years later in Soviet Lithuania, movie director Gediminas Gutauskas returns from the USA with a screenplay of a film that portrays, in details, the Lietūkis Garage Massacre and describes a particular situation where Isaac is killed. The screenplay is later brought to the attention and investigated by the KGB. Why does a director, who once relocated to the USA, return to Soviet Lithuania? Why is his scenario so unusually historically accurate to the massacre, as though he would have witnessed it himself? Perhaps he knows someone who attended the massacre themselves? The aftermath of the murder returns many years later to cripple life and love, triggering a chain of fateful coincidences. Jurgis Matulevičius's feature debut premiered in competition at Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival 2019.

Algimantas Puipa : 2019
Kita Tylos Pusė

The story of two brothers – Kasparas and Einaras. Their homesteads are located in the same village, on the same lake, by the same forest, but their mutual hatred is so strong that they cannot die out of fear of losing to each other. Both brothers, when still young, loved the same woman, Mina, who loved them back. She was the wife of one brother and the mistress of the other. Her son, Lars, was born of that love. When Lars was killed, both brothers were blamed for his death. This tragic event further deepened the rift between the two brothers and took away their beloved Mina. Algimantas Puipa's feature was winner of the Best Feature and Best Actor awards when it had its international premiere at Scandinavian International Film Festival 2019, and screened in competition at Riga International Film Festival 2019.

Šarūnas Bartas : 2017

The story of a young man who has never experienced war but has grown up in its shadow. He enters a journey of discovery and sacrifice, crossing borders between countries, between people. Rokas and Inga, a couple of young Lithuanians, volunteer to drive a cargo van of humanitarian aid from Vilnius to Ukraine. When plans change and they find themselves left to their own devices, they cross the vast snowy lands of the Donbass region in search of allies and shelter, drifting into the lives of those affected by the war. They approach the frontline in spite of the danger, all the while growing closer to each other as they begin to understand life during wartime. Šarūnas Bartas's feature premiered at the Quinzaine des Réalisateurs at Festival de Cannes 2017.

Daniela Féjerman : 2015
The Adoption

Daniel and Natalia are a Spanish couple that have invested not only their savings, but also boundless enthusiasm and hope, in their plan to become the parents of an adopted child. Providing the necessary support for one another, they embark on a voyage to a country to the east, where they have been promised a healthy child. However, things do not work out as they had expected. As soon as they arrive, they come up against theft, corruption and a lack of communication. Finding themselves powerless and faced with growing hostility, their own latent conflicts come to the fore. The dream they came with threatens to turn into a nightmare, bringing out the worst in each of them and shaking the foundations of what they had thought was a solid, cast-iron relationship. Daniela Féjerman's feature premiered in competition at Semana Internacional de Cine de Valladolid 2015.

Šarūnas Bartas : 2015

One summer day, a man, his new girlfriend and his daughter arrive at their countryside house to spend a weekend. After the death of her mother, the sixteen-year-old daughter lives with her father, whose attention she lacks and she feels lonely and estranged. He is tired of his daily routine at work and does not know how to find strength to carry on living. His girlfriend, a violinist, does not feel any joy of life, as she is confused in her priorities – music, love and career. Despite the fact they love each other, their relationship is tensed and is on the brink of collapse. The daughter meets up with a boy, a friend from childhood. They go for walks, swim in the lake, talk. One day, the boy steals an optical sight rifle from the local hunters. A big chase commences in the countryside and the troubles and the drama really begin. Šarūnas Bartas's feature premiered at the Quinzaine des Réalisateurs at Festival de Cannes 2015.

Alantė Kavaitė : 2015
Sangailės vasara

Seventeen-year-old Sangailė is fascinated by stunt planes. Afraid of heights, she has never dared to even enter in one of the cockpits. At a summer aeronautical show, near her parents' lakeside villa, she meets Austė, a local girl of her age, who unlike Sangailė, lives her life to the full with creativity and dare. As the two girls become lovers, Sangailė allows Austė to discover her most intimate secret, and finds in her teenage love the only person to truly encourage her in flying. A coming-of-age story about personal fulfilment, the act of choosing what you become and the impact it could have on people's lives. Alantė Kavaitė's second feature was winner of the Best Director Award when it premiered in competition at Sundance Film Festival 2015. Her film had its European premiere in the Panorama section at Berlin International Film Festival 2015.

Agnė Marcinkevičiūtė : 2013
Vardas tamsoje

A small town in Lithuania back in 1995. Life is quiet here. But one day, a mysterious incident changes the everyday routine, when a teenage girl is found murdered at a local hotel. The town is shocked by the incident, but the hardest work goes to the melancholic Investigator in the local police department. The suspect in the murder is her former music teacher, who was also her lover back in the school times. While the Investigator is working on this mysterious crime, her memories bring her back to the days of their dramatically finished relationship. Just when the case seems to be revealed, the chief of the department warns her: "Don't disclose a crime too early, you may never know what the answer is bringing to you". Based on the bestselling detective novel by Renata Serelytė, Agnė Marcinkevičiūtė's feature debut screened at Vilnius International Film Festival 2014.

Rick Ostermann : 2013
Wolf children

Today nine million children all over the world are on the run. They are the innocent victims of war and banishment. Many of these children lose their parents and their home. During the turmoil of the Second World War they have also become known as the so-called "wolf children" who desperately fought for survival in what was then East Prussia and in the Baltic region. Set in an East Prussian village under Russian occupation in the year 1947, the 14-year-old Hans and his 9-year-old brother Karl lose their mother who dies of starvation during a hard winter. On her death bed the mother asks Hans to look after his younger brother. Even though Hans seems less capable of coming to terms with the challenges to be faced than his young brother, he is given all the responsibility: they need to make their way through to Lithuania where some farmers are sympathetic to German children. On their way Hans loses Karl whilst crossing a large river under attack. This marks the beginning of an odyssey in which Hans, driven by the desire to find his brother, joins a group of children on a journey to a foreign land and a fight against hunger, adverse weather and illness. Together they seek refuge in the enchanted forests of Lithuania in order to escape the turmoil of post-war anarchy. Rick Ostermann's feature directorial debut premiered at La Biennale di Venezia 2013.

Audrius Juzėnas : 2013
The Excursionist

After World War II, when Europe was divided in two parts, the state of Lithuania found itself on the Eastern side of the iron curtain. There, the Stalin regime soon demolished the established way of life and cruelly suppressed any kind of resistance to that process. Hundreds of thousands of Lithuanians were deported to work in concentration camps in north and east Russia. Based on a true story from Lithuania's history, the film follows Marija, an 11-year-old girl who escapes from an exile train taking her and her family to Siberia, to start the 6,000 km long, dangerous journey back to her homeland in Lithuania. Whilst travelling she encounters a variety of people: some indifferent, others who turn her away but do not prevent her journey, only a few risking not only their freedom, but also their lives in order to help her. A film about hope and destiny, love and friendship, sacrifice and good nature, and an immeasurable love for one's homeland. Audrius Juzėnas's third feature screened at Vilnius International Film Festival 2014.

Kristijonas Vildžiūnas : 2010
Kai apkabinsiu tave

It's 1961. A father and his daughter are trying to meet in Berlin seventeen years after they were separated by fate during World War II. The father is from Soviet Lithuania and the daughter an émigré living in the United States. Despite the fact that there is a "thawing" period in the Soviet Union and the wall has not yet been erected in Berlin, the Cold War is approaching its culmination. As soon as the father arrives in Berlin, undercover employees of the KGB begin taking care of him. They try to entice the daughter to come to the East. However, the atmosphere of the city seeped with mistrust has affected her, and she is afraid to step across the boundary line of West Berlin. The few kilometres that now separate them have become an immeasurable distance. In order to help each other escape any potential KGB entrapments, both father and daughter are prepared to renounce the meeting they've been yearning for for so long. Winner of the Silver Crane at the Lithuanian Film Awards 2011.