Cinema

The Summer of Sangaile
Culture

Two Lithuanian films recommended for nomination in European Film Awards 2015

September 21, 2015 Lithuania Tribune 0

Organizers of the European Film Academy awards have announced the titles of the 52 films on this year’s selection list. Two Lithuanian titles made into the list – Peace to Us in Our Dreams directed by Šarūnas Bartas and The Summer of Sangaile directed by Alantė Kavaitė, the Lithuanian Film Centre reports. […]

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Gems of Lithuanian cinema to screen in Wrocław Film Festival

July 24, 2015 Lithuania Tribune 0

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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Culture

Two Lithuanian co-productions receive Eurimages funding

June 26, 2015 Lithuania Tribune 0

Eurimages, the Council of Europe‘s film support fund, extended a grant of EUR 50,000 to the film Deadweight directed by Ignas Miškinis. The film is produced by Tremora (Lithuania) and coproduced by Film Angels Productions (Latvia), reports the Lithuanian Film Centre. […]

Michel Hazanavicius
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Oscar-winning French director says he is happy with his Lithuanian name

April 2, 2015 BNS 0

Oscar-winning French film director Michel Hazanavicius, who has visited Vilnius, says he is grateful to his grandfather for not changing his name after moving to France. […]

Jonas Mekas in his loft Photo Ludo Segers
Culture

Out-take of a diary. Interview with Jonas Mekas

March 13, 2015 Ludo Segers 0

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. […]

Film's protagonist A.F. Bendoraitis was called 'Great white father'
Culture

Young Lithuanian filmmaker seeks to revive a forgotten jungle god legend

February 26, 2015 Lithuania Tribune 0

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. […]