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Gems of Lithuanian cinema to screen in Wrocław Film Festival

The 15th T-Mobile New Horizons film festival opens in Wrocław on July 23. Among other films it will feature the most distinct Lithuanian films created from 1959 to 2015. The special film programme Focus on Lithuania includes a record number of 30 features tracing the complex history and culture of the country during the Soviet period, the path to independence, and the decades of sovereignty. […]

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Vilnius to celebrate US non-recognition policy of Baltic occupation

Lithuania will commemorate the 75th anniversary of the Welles Declaration on 23 July in Washington Square in Vilnius at the event Together We Believe in Freedom. The declaration marked the beginning of the United States‘ non-recognition policy of the occupation and annexation of the Baltic states by the Soviet Union. […]

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Chicago choir to give anniversary concerts in Lithuania

One of the most sensational choirs of Chicago will throw a concert in Lithuania to celebrate its anniversary. […]

Antanas Sutkus
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Lithuanian photographer who took picture of Sartre to be awarded French government prize

One of Lithuania’s most renowned photography artists, Antanas Sutkus, will receive an award of the French minister of culture. […]

Collector coin dedicated to literature. Photo T. Lukšys, BFL
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Bank of Lithuania issues collector’s coin dedicated to literature

The Bank of Lithuania has issued into circulation a 5 euro collector’s coin, dedicated to literature (from the series Lithuanian Culture); it was presented at the Writer’s Club in Vilnius to a group of writers and lovers of literature, the central bank said. […]