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A collective portrait of people in 20th century Europe, capturing their hopes, desires, dramas, and tragedies.

The film consists of three chapters. The Manslayer takes place more than a hundred years ago. The leading character Maara is a young bride who is about to start her life in her new family. The Virgin, set in the spring of 1949, tells the story of a young woman called Elina, who has been deported from Ingria into Estonia during the previous war. The Shadow moves in the present, on the border of real life and fantasy. The main character, Luna Lee, has decided to flee from home. Is there anything besides emptiness somewhere? The film is led by the singularity of the leading character - Maara, Elina and Luna Lee are all played by the same actress.

One summer evening, twenty-five years ago: the town is deserted, the soccer World Cup final is in progress. A woman, Teresa, floats down the Tiber and lets the current carry her away.

In the spring of 2022, a forgotten photographic treasure was discovered in Lithuania - 840 negatives that had been hiding in the museum's archives for over 80 years. The documentary tells the story of the Museum's persistent researchers, whose patience and stubbornness resurrect the past, leading us through the labyrinth of the archives, where every answer gives rise to new questions.

"First-Class Citizen" is a Swedish-Lithuanian documentary about power and control from the micro (family) to the macro (country) level. This documentary is a wake-up call to all of us who care.

An Irish language poet travels to Lithuania to tell the story of the 19th century Book Smugglers, who risked their lives to protect Lithuanian against Russification, by smuggling books, newspapers, magazines into the country from Prussia and distributing them along clandestine networks. In doing so, the poet is bound to reflect on the decline of his own language, and the relationship between the language we speak and our national and personal identity.

The film explores the paradox of exemplary behaviour of murderers currently serving life sentences in Lukiskes Prison in Vilnius and hoping to return to society.

A documentary film about the forgotten genius Ladislas Starewitch.

This documentary follows a bustrip Tallinn to Kaliningrad. A route that was so common in the Soviet times now passes through 4 different countries and crosses 3 different borders.

A self-filmed road movie about quest for lost faith. Jokubas Vilius Turas is in desperation to find strength and courage in himself to overcome hardships, frustration and self-destruction. On the dangerous and physically exhausting walk from Lithuania to Spain, he captures what is happening around and inside him on video.

A documentary film about the most important nineteenth-century photographer of Vilnius - Juzefas Cechavicius.

As a young man, I came to Vilnius 10 years ago to work with Lithuanian master filmmaker Sharunas Bartas. I was rather naive and inexperienced, I still had to discover what ils the relation between the words "Author" and "Authority". I lived in a corner of his studio, an old wooden house in the middle of the forest, and bits by bits started to get inside his elusive creative process. But the full picture was missing. In order to put things together, I needed to come back.

A tiny caterpillar naps cosily with his kitty friends. A playful ball of wool wakes up the caterpillar. Teasing and tickling, the ball awakens the caterpillar's dream to fly. The caterpillar follows the ball to the garden and together with the kitties they amuse themselves and mess around. Finally, the ball of wool leads the way into a spooky place, full of spiders. Their friendship overcomes fear of darkness and turns into magic. Live your dreams and you will fly.

In Belarus , some battle for democracy, social justice and civil rights, while others struggle just to survive. Under the Hood brings us on a journey through a country where the secret police is still known as the KGB and gathering in public to do nothing is considered a crime. The film takes us from the protests and secret opposition meetings of the capital, Minsk, to the horse-drawn carts and hand-tilled fields of the countryside, following the lives of businessman Yuri, villager Lyudmila, youth opposition leader Franak and journalists Eduard and Viktor, among others. Their stories, of normality punctuated by bureaucracy and occasional brutality, remind us how close Belarus is to the rest of Europe... and how very far away.

Follows the expedition led by veteran mountaineer Algimantas Jucevicius to the Tian Shan mountains in Kyrgyzstan.

A tiny classroom is a meeting point and a shelter for those who have come to Spain driven by the "European dream" to start a new life. Brought together by fate, these immigrants share disillusionment, alienation and yearn for a return home. But they haven't counted on their extraordinary language teacher Maria Antonia. Hiding a sadness of her own, Maria is on the surface playful, engaged and determined, though she does not speak any other language except her mother tongue Spanish, to excite her students with whatever it takes to break through their own dark stories. 48 year-old Maria Antonia gets her inspiration from her dreams. She is devoted to her life dream of becoming an actress. It seems sometimes that the classroom transforms to the stage, with Antonia as a leading actress on it. Fiction and reality touch one another in her small, hermetically sealed classroom, a place where Maria is the star and her students the audience. Visually playful with distinctive animation and melodramatic theatre sequences, full of giant, quiet tragedies, Spanish for Adults leaves a poetic and lasting impression. That life will always throw adversity our way - it is not a case of trying to avoid it, but rather how we live our lives through it and after it.