Movies: Vytautas V. Landsbergis

For over 70 years, Jonas Mekas, internationally known as the "godfather" of avant-garde cinema, documented his life in what came to be known as his diary films. From his arrival in New York City as a displaced person in 1949 to his death in 2019, he ...

A newly appointed teacher arrives at a remote village school in 1947. The famous journalist and distinguished poet was downgraded for illegal publications and forbidden anti-Soviet verses. Suspicious locals still prefer to test his loyalties, while c...

A portrait movie of the Godfather of American avantgarde cinema. Through material filmed primarily in the 1990s by both the directors and Jonas Mekas himself, a new insight appears on the filmmaking Lithuanian New Yorker who doesn't consider himself ...

Antanas Sutkus. An in-depth look into the soul of a man who could capture attention and find a way to the hearts of people he photographed. Little did they know of the difficult experiences he kept in his heart....

The tapes in the program consist of some of Mekas’ earliest cassettes from the 1990s not long after he first began working with video as well as more recent mini-DV tapes from 2010s. The contents of the tapes have not been previously seen in their en...

Documentary film about Vytautas Landsbergis - Lithuanian politician, public figure and historian of art, music and culture, chairman of The Reform Movement of Lithuania (Sąjūdis) and chairman of the Supreme Council of the Republic of Lithuania, which...

The Hawk was one of the most well-known Lithuanian resistance fighters during a post war period. It’s a story about a man who was forced to fight soviets who invaded the country post World War II. The Hawk had to keep his family hidden for 11 years a...

Tells the tale of Lithuanian post-war history....

Portrait of the famous Lithuanian prose writer Grigorijus Kanovičius....

The author Jurga Ivanauskaitė (1961-2007) was considered a pioneer of contemporary Baltic literature well beyond the borders of Lithuania. Her work deals intensively with the tension between religion, sexuality and emancipation. Film documents and in...