The projects included six fiction films and six documentaries. Three of the films are coproductions, and one was crowd-funded.
The following Lithuanian projects were presented:
Name in the Dark (Lithuania, in progress, Fiction), directed by Agne Marcinkevičiūtė, based on Renata Serelyte’s novel on the same title. The feature detective drama with “taste of author’s ironic humor” takes place in a small Lithuanian town in 1995, a time when the country is trying to break free from Soviet ideology.
Production contact: VSI “Fraiita Films”, producer: Živilė Gallego (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.). Project supported by Lithuanian Culture and Support Fund.
Emigrants / Emigrantai (Lithuania, Fiction, 2013); Directed and produced by Justinas Krisiūnas. Project based in 100% on private funding. Recently finished, going into theatrical release from 5 April 2013.
Production contact: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Redirected (UK, Lithuania, Fiction, in progress); Lithuanian – UK coproduction with international cast - Hollywood star Vinnie Jones and Russian actor Artur Smolyaninov, directed by Emilis Velyvis. Premiere is estimated for January 2014.
Production contact: Asta Liukaitytė, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Project was supported by Lithuanian Film Centre.
Game of the Nation (Lithuania, 2012, Documentary), directed by Andrius Lekavičius. An official documentary film of the EuroBasket 2011. Lithuania’s national basketball team has a big winning tradition. After months of preparation, tension, and enormous pressure, the fate of 3 million are now in the hands of twelve... But fate has brought a twist. And the team will need to rise again to become heroes of their nation.
Production contact: Andrius Lekavičius, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Under The Hood, (Lithuania, Ireland, 2013, Documentary), directed by Mark Byrne and Rob Dennis. Recently finished, will be presented during MIPTV in Cannes. The documentary film shows the contemporary situation in Belarus from the different perspectives of five different characters. Producer Rasa Miškinytė said that now they are mostly looking for festival interest.
Production Contact: Era Film - Rasa Miškinytė, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Dreaming the Path / Spanuoju, kad einu (Lithuania, 2012, Documentary), Director: Jokūbas Vilius Tūras. A documentary about a former alcoholic man walking from Vilnius to Santiago de Compostella
Production Contact: Era Film - Rasa Miškinytė, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Santa (Lithuania, Finland, Feature, In progress) director Marius Ivaškevičius. A Lithuanian woman Inga and her seven year old son Vincas arrive to Rovaniemi, a small Finnish town in the north, to visit a park of Santa Claus. Later that day Jussi, an actor who works as Santa in the park, meets Inga in the bar. Little by little a relationship starts between the two.
Production contact: ArtBox, Asta Valčiukaitė, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Project supported by the Lithuanian National Film Centre.
Luckus, (Lithuania, 2013, Documentary, 90min), director G.Žickytė. A documentary film about Lithuanian photographer Vitas Luckus (1943 – 1987), the artist who refused to adapt to conventions, to so-called “normal” life. He refused to seek success within the rules of the Soviet system.
Premiere is estimated for Autumn 2013
Production contact: Just a Moment, Dagnė Vildžiūnaitė, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Nesamasis laikas / Non present time, (Lithuania, Fiction, 80min, 2013) M.Vildžiūnas. A film about young man’s confusion in present times. The protagonist Tadas (30) is looking for answers to questions that are relevant to many of his peers, coming of age in between nostalgic socialist childhood dreams and the ideals pushed by a young democracy, relentlessly rushing forward.
Production contact: Just a Moment, Dagnė Vildžiūnaitė, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Tėvas /Father, (Lithuania, 2012, Documentary, 60min) directed by Marat Sargsyan.
Vidas Zenonas Antonovas, nicknamed “The Father of the Mafia,” has been recorded in the book of the most interesting criminals of Soviet Union. He stole around a million rubles from the state’s institutions. Together with his accomplices, he hijacked a plane with passengers in order to split for Africa, eventually spending 20 years in 15 different prisons. Now he is 71 and has a big family – 10 children, 2 grandchildren and a newborn son.
Production contact: Just a Moment, Dagnė Vildžiūnaitė, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Igruški / Igrushki, (Lithuania, 2012, Documentary, 60min), Lina Lužytė.
In the town of Zhlobin in Belarus, it’s been 21 years since the collapse of the Soviet Union and most of the locals survive solely by making and selling soft toys. Their only customers are the people passing through on trains. However, approaching a train with a toy in one’s hands is illegal. Igrushki will have its Lithuanian premiere in Autumn 2013.
Production: Just a Moment, Dagnė Vildžiūnaitė, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
We Will Riot/ Streikas (Lithuania, In Progress, Fiction, 74min), crowd funded project directed and produced by Romas Zabarauskas (also known for its short Porno Melodrama presented at Berlinale in 2011)
John Cameron Mitchell - U.S director and one of the film sponsor said: “We Will Riot portrays the very unique predicament of today's youth generation in an insightful and clever way”.
Romas Zabarauskas told FNE that We Will Riot has scheduled its Lithuanian premiere for September 2013.
Production contact: Romas Zabarauskas, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
