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Film by Šarūnas Bartas to be screened at Cannes Directors’ Fortnight
It was announced on Tuesday that Peace To Us in Our Dreams, a film by the acclaimed Lithuanian filmmaker Šarūnas Bartas, has been selected for the Directors’ Fortnight section at the Cannes Film Festival where it will have its world premiere. […]
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Fakin’ Zeitgeist: The Spectre of Postmodernism
The spectre of postmodernism is haunting literature. Here’s how to recognize it. […]
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Lithuanian culture minister: We must defend our identity, not only territory
Lithuanian Culture Minister Šarūnas Birutis has stressed that when it comes to the country’s security, attention should be paid not only to the territorial defence but also to strenghtening national identity and people’s trust in the state. […]
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Belt believed to belong to Grand Duke Vytautas on display in Vilnius
Segments of a belt, believed to be worn by Grand Duke of Lithuania Vytautas, go on display at the Grand Dukes Palace in Vilnius. […]
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Jewish organizations and Lithuanian government agree on sensitive renovation in central Vilnius
Members of the Committee for the Preservation of Jewish Cemeteries in Europe said after meeting with Lithuania’s prime minister that they had no critical remarks to the government in connection to the plans to renovate the former Sports Palace building built on an old Jewish cemetery. […]
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Orange bikes’ season begins in Vilnius
Vilnius city bike self-service system CycloCity Vilnius will start this season on 1 April. There are 37 self-service terminals installed in Vilnius. The stations are distributed in close proximity to each other in Vilnius city, Vilnius Tourist Information Centre reports. […]
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First Lithuanian national film funding competition comes to an end
The Lithuanian Film Centre (LKC) granted EUR 32,700 of state funding for the pre-production of two films. This concludes the first competition for state funding of 2015, the Centre said in a report. […]
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Meditation events to mark Inner Peace Day
In March and April, several Lithuanian cities and towns are joining the World Day of Inner Peace and organizing meditation events. […]
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Out-take of a diary. Interview with Jonas Mekas
Lithuania and the world lost one of the most talented film makers of our times. The New York Times wrote in its obituary: ‘It is rare to have consensus on the pre-eminence of any person in the arts. But few would argue that Mr. Mekas, who was often called the godfather or the guru of the New American Cinema — his name for the underground film movement of the 1950s and ’60s — was the leading champion of the kind of film that doesn’t show at the multiplex.’ Please, read an interview with Jonas Mekas done in his home in New York. Let’s remember one of the greatest Lithuanians of our times.
Here is a interview with Jonas Mekas in March 2015. Jonas speaks speaks about how the art scene changes and benefits from technological changes. He also answers some questions from prominent Lithuanians. […]
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Oscar-winning director Michel Hazanavicius to present film on Chechen war in Vilnius
Oscar-winning French director Michel Hazanavicius is coming to Vilnius this month to present his war drama, The Search, on 31 March at Vilnius International Film Festival. […]
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Lithuanian arts syndicate among co-founders of European street performers’ federation
Wide range arts syndicate Bad Rabbits was established in 2012 and immediately started to produce street theatre performances and theatre productions in non-traditional spaces and by doing that making Lithuania’s name a bit more known internationally. […]
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Kaunas interwar architecture awarded European Heritage Label
The European Union has awarded a European Heritage Label to the modern interwar architecture of Kaunas, Lithuania’s second-largest city. The decision was announced in the Official Journal of the European Union. […]
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American Songbirds to conclude European tour in Lithuania
“American Songbirds“ is a project of seven musicians which will finish European tour in Lithuania. […]
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Ethnic minority literature in Lithuania: between academic multiculturalism and public nationalism
Minority literature studies have a long and diverse history. Since its establishment nearly 25 years ago in the Western academia as well as in the public discourse in the West, it has been accompanied by the critique of the Western Canon in light of liberal pluralism. This critique has led to many revisions of the curriculum, which later provoked a conservative response (especially in the US) and, as some critics claim, minority literature has ended up in a kind of cultural “reservation area”. However, it has been developing as a field of research and, as we can see from the reemergence of conferences and projects on the subject, it is still a hot topic. […]
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Sundance-nominated film produced by Ryan Gosling to screen in Vilnius with English subtitles
Noaz Deshe’s powerful first feature film White Shadow comes to cinema Pasaka in March and will screen with English subtitles. […]
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BBC shooting War and Peace in Vilnius
A six-part television series based on Leo Tolstoy‘s novel War and Peace has begun filming in Vilnius. The series is being made by BBC Cymru Wales Drama, in partnership with The Weinstein Company and BBC Worldwide/Lookout Point. […]
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When geography is not enough – three Lithuanian paths to Europe
In her latest book, Three Lithuanian Europes: the Nation, Europe, and the EU in Modern Identity, philosopher Nerija Putinaitė‘s quest to flag the wellsprings of Lithuanians’ European identity guides readers from the real demise of an imaginary pre-historic golden age, to a barbarian king’s Latin baptism and festive 500th anniversary celebrations of Vytautas, Duke of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. […]