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- DirectorKarolis KaupinisStarsAleksas KazanaviciusVaidotas MartinaitisValentinas MasalskisIt's late 1930's. Foreseeing the upcoming war in Europe, Lithuanian geographer Feliksas Gruodis comes up with an idea to save his country by establishing a Lithuanian colony overseas. The plan is a massive exodus to the so called "Reserve Lithuania" in case of occupation. Feliksas tries to sell his idea to one of the most important persons of the state - a grey cardinal of the president, the prime minister Jonas Servus. Dismissing the idea at first, soon the prime minister experiences a heart stroke as the country gets the first signs of war at it's borders. As the president uses his illness to turn him into a scapegoat, the already ex-prime minister gets back to Feliksas, persuades him to reveal his plan and offers his help. The hope to implement the plan doesn't bring much light to Feliksas' personal life. Him and his wife, a childless couple, live in a stiff and cold relationship. As Feliksas finds a fulfilment in his utopia, his wife Veronika finds no way to diminish her loneliness. As Feliksas' political dream comes to realisation, his marriage approaches a collapse. As the country loses the first piece of it's territory, ex-prime minister decides that the only way to implement the plan is to overthrow the president with the help of the military. He invites Feliksas to spend the last night at his home, together with his family. The ideal picture of it makes Feliksas to drop his plan at the last minute and try to save his personal life instead of saving the country.
- DirectorSergey LoznitsaStarsAlgirdas BrazauskasMikhail GorbachevVytautas LandsbergisDocumentary about Lithuania in the years 1989 to 1991, when the Baltic country broke away from the Soviet Union. Because of the peaceful protests with much singing, this period was later also called the 'singing revolution'. As one of the founders of the independence movement, Vytautas Landsbergis was at the heart of the historical upheaval. His incisive reflections are complemented by extensive archive footage of demonstrations, party congresses and the Soviet military intervention.
- DirectorAlgirdas DausaAlmantas GrikeviciusStarsRegimantas AdomaitisJuozas BudraitisRegina PaliukaityteThe Second World War is ending. Widower Kasparas moves in with his brother Andrius, who lives on the other side of the bay where the German occupation has already ended. Andrius' wife Egne is still in love with Kasparas. Her relatives and a group of Lithuanian nationalists are planning on fleeing to Sweden. Egne persuades her husband that they should all go together, hoping to once again regain Kasparas' affection after crossing the sea. But Kasparas opts to return home and border guards detain Andrius. Nine long years pass before the brothers see each other again.
- DirectorArunas MatelisStarsDaniele ColliSvein TuftPaolo TiralongoThey're called water carriers, domestics, 'gregarios', 'Sancho Panzas' of professional cycling. Always at the back of the group, with no right for a personal victory. These wonderful losers are the true warriors of professional cycling.
- CreatorCraig MazinStarsJessie BuckleyJared HarrisStellan SkarsgårdIn April 1986, the city of Chernobyl in the Soviet Union suffers one of the worst nuclear disasters in the history of mankind. Consequently, many heroes put their lives on the line in the following days, weeks and months.
- DirectorDonatas UlvydasStarsMantas JankaviciusAgnia DitkovskyteTatyana LyutaevaA romance blooms between a noblewoman and a common man amid a peasant revolt against the brutal Russian army
- StarsHelen MirrenJason ClarkeGina McKeeThe life and times of the woman who reformed the Russian empire.
- DirectorArunas MatelisA short documentary about a hospital ward for children with leukemia in Lithuania.
- DirectorAndrzej WajdaStarsBoguslaw LindaDaniel OlbrychskiGrazyna SzapolowskaIn the early 1810s, Poles, part of Russia's client state of Lithuania, think independence will come if they join forces with Napoleon when he invades Russia. This unity of purpose, in one district, is undermined by two families, feuding since the head of one shot the head of the other twenty years before. There are hopes of a reconciliation through a marriage of Pan Tadeusz, a Soplica, whose father, the murderer, is in hiding somewhere, and Zosia, a teen-aged girl, a Horeszko who lives in the household of Pan's uncle. Other cross-currents - of love, family, politics, village traditions, land reform, and what it means to be Polish - give the film texture. It's an exile's story.
- DirectorEmilis VelyvisStarsVinnie JonesScot WilliamsGil DarnellThree friends try to make money and invite another friend in on a plot.
- DirectorEdward ZwickStarsDaniel CraigLiev SchreiberJamie BellJewish brothers in German-occupied Eastern Europe escape into a Belorussian forest, where they join Russian resistance fighters, and endeavor to build a village, in order to protect themselves and about one thousand Jewish non-combatants.
- DirectorLauris AbeleRaitis AbeleStarsKaspars AninsKristaps BedritisLauma BalodeThese are religious rituals, magical and true, the Battle of Saule, the Crusaders battles, our ancestors fiery battles for the free land. Who were the last pagans of Europe and who did they believe?
- StarsPaul DanoJames NortonLily JamesAs the Russian conflict with Napoleon reaches its peak, five aristocratic families face the possibility of their lives being changed forever.
- DirectorYakov ProtazanovStarsIvan MozzhukhinNathalie LissenkoPolycarpe PavloffPastor Talnox furiously urges the flock to fight temptations, but he himself becomes a victim of temptation. In his house appears Satan, pushing the hero to theft and spiritual fall.
- DirectorAndrei ApsolonAdolf BergunkerAleksandr FaintsimmerStarsJuozas SiparisAlgimantas VoscikasJuozas LauciusOn the strengthening of the Lithuanian collective farm in the post-war years and on the struggle against the remnants of the past in the minds of people.
- DirectorAleksandrs LeimanisStarsLolita CaukaHaralds RitenbergsEduards PavulsThree young men fight to prevent surrender of the city of Riga city to Swedish and Polish enemies.
- DirectorJanis StreicsStarsLilita BerzinaOlga DregeUldis DumpisThe struggle of two related families for the eighty-year-old aunt's inheritance through comic and romantic events.
- DirectorJuris PodnieksPortrayal of rebellious teenagers growing up under Communist rule in Latvia.
- DirectorJanis StreicsStarsRomualds AncansMartins DancausksSigne DundureA story about Pavulans family life in Latgale, traditions and values that are passed down from generation to generation. Little Bonuks from an early age learns to build relationships with family members and others, with God and nature.
- DirectorDace PuceStarsDamir OnackisDace EversaAgata BuzekAfter a neighbor's daughter throws some contemptuous remarks about his dead father, ten years old boy teaches the girl a cruel lesson thereby condemning himself in the eyes of the surrounding folk.
- DirectorViesturs KairissStarsSabine TimoteoEdvins MekssIvars KrastsBased on the true story of Melanija Vanaga, this film is a brutally realistic and terrifying account of the mass deportation of residents of Soviet-occupied Latvia that took place in June 1941.
- DirectorAigars GraubaStarsJanis ReinisElita KlavinaGirts KruminsThe First World War is over. Martins, after many years spent in war abroad, returns to his bride Elza in Latvia. He does not realize that the decisive battle for the heart of Elza and for the newly founded Latvian state is yet to come.
- DirectorLaila PakalninaStarsAntons GraudsVilis DaudzinsWiktor ZborowskiPropaganda story about a 'Young Pioneer' Pavel Morozov, who denounced his father to Stalin's secret police and was in turn killed by his own family.
- DirectorSigne BaumaneStarsSigne BaumaneSigne Baumane and five women in her family battle with depression and madness.
- DirectorMaris MartinsonsStarsKaori MomoiAndrius MamontovasDan LauOne week in one of the most exotic and picturesque cities of the world. The day of changes comes when Amaya meets a charming Englishman, Paul and it dramatically changes Amaya's perception of her cultural and personal identity.
- DirectorMaris MartinsonsStarsValda BickuteKostas SmoriginasDalia MicheleviciuteMentally ill young woman Valda convinces herself that a boy growing up in an orphanage is her child. Following the footsteps of a thousands Lithuanians, she immigrates to Ireland to earn money to save him. "Loss" portrays beauty and tragedy in the human heart.
- DirectorSharunas BartasStarsMantas JanciauskasLyja MaknaviciuteAndrzej ChyraRokas and Inga, a couple of young Lithuanians, volunteer to drive a cargo van of humanitarian aid to Ukraine. When plans change and they find themselves left to their own devices, they cross the vast snowy lands of the Donbass region.
- DirectorKristine BriedeAudrius StonysStarsHerz FrankUldis BraunsIvars SeleckisKristine Briede and Audrius Stonys's meditative documentary essay portrays the less-remembered generation of cinema poets of the Baltic New Wave. With finesse, they push beyond the barriers of the common historiographic investigation in order to achieve a consummate poetic treatment of the ontology of documentary creation.
- DirectorRyszard OrdynskiStarsWojciech BrydzinskiStanislaw Knake-ZawadzkiJan SzymanskiAn emigrant in Paris recalls the idyllic past in his homeland - full of hope, love, happiness, colourful characters and magnificent landscapes.
- DirectorAigars GraubaStarsEdvin EndreJames BloorDainis GrubeOn his deathbed, the reigning king bestows power to an unexpected heir who must find strength within himself to unite his people against the violent crusades which threaten their freedom.
- DirectorDzintars DreibergsStarsOto BrantevicsGreta TrusinaMartins VilsonsAfter losing his mother and his home, Arturs finds some consolation in joining the army. However, war is nothing like he imagined.
- DirectorAlante KavaiteStarsJulija SteponaityteAiste DirziuteJurate Sodyte17 years old Sangaile is fascinated by stunt planes. She meets a girl her age at a summer aeronautical show. Sangaile allows Auste to discover her most intimate secret and in the process finds the only person that truly encourages her to fly.