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. […]
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. […]
Ambitious new-generation film director Vytautas Puidokas (26, Lithuania) has discovered a mysterious and forgotten story about a Lithuanian emigrant in the Amazon jungle in the 1980s and is keen to turn it into a movie. […]
UNESCO experts have ended discussions on the issue of constructing a bridge between mainland Lithuania and the Curonian Spit. The delegation inspected the site in response to Russia‘s complaints, the Lietuvos Žinios daily reports. […]
Klaipėda, Lithuania’s third city on the Baltic coast, plans to rebuild St John’s Church that was demolished after World War Two. The new church will feature a tower of the original height of 75 meters, Klaipėda Municipality said on Wednesday. […]
The Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis Foundation and the Embassy of France will hold the 2015 M. K. Čiurlionis Cup Rex award ceremony and will honour the laureates for their merits. […]
Artists of Šiauliai, northern Lithuania, hope that the room lined with Lithuanian cent coins in a local library will be listed in the Guinness Book of Records. […]
Vaidas Baumila and Monika Linkytė are to represent Lithuania in the 2015 Eurovision Song Contest in Vienna in May after winning the national selection competition on Saturday. […]
A film alumnus from the University for the Creative Arts (UCA) in Farnham, UK, has been given a welcome boost after the Lithuanian government agreed to invest €45,000 in his latest production. […]
The international Vilnius Book Fair has become a special cultural phenomenon both in Lithuania and the Baltic region, said Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė, opening the book fair on Thursday in Vilnius. […]
Lithuanian Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius said on Wednesday that a proposal to hold a referendum for Vilnius residents to decide on the fate of the Soviet Green Bridge statues was a “good idea”. […]
Students of Vilnius Gediminas Technical University (VGTU) in Lithuania have built a miniature replica of the Eiffel Tower. […]
By 2018, when Lithuania will mark the 100-year anniversary of establishing an independent state, there must be monuments put up for Jonas Basanavičius, one of the most important independence activists, and Antanas Smetona, the first president of Lithuania, believes Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė. […]
Member of Parliament Kęstutis Masiulis has approached Minister of Culture Šarūnas Birutis requesting to change the principles of how the Immovable Cultural Heritage Assessment Council (NTPVT) and other expert groups are formed. […]
Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius says that a decision to lift legal protection of the Soviet statues on the Green Bridge should be made only by specialists. He added, however, that a discussion on the issue is needed. […]
Lithuanian Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius said that Vilnius Concerts and Sports Palace, a currently abandoned modernist structure in central Vilnius, will become a modern congress centre by 2017. […]
Lithuanian young actress Aistė Diržiūtė is among a small group of recognized up-and-coming European performers who were honoured this year at the prestigious Berlinale Palast with the European Shooting Stars Award, the Lithuanian Film Centre informs. […]
In an effort to get the title of the European Capital of Culture, Lithuania’s second-largest city Kaunas should include the city’s residents, think about the city’s identity and the wanted changes, consultants said after meeting with representatives of Kaunas cultural institutions on Tuesday. […]
The Soviet statues on the Green Bridge in central Vilnius will not be removed from the Register of Cultural Monuments, a special panel at the Department of Cultural Heritage, which evaluates immovable cultural heritage objects, decided on Tuesday. […]
Lithuania continues to hold the leading position in the region in terms of the market share held by domestic films, which grew from 16.49% in 2013 to 23% in 2014. […]
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