Ketvirta versija

The portrait of poet, essayist, translator, dissident and professor of literature at Yale University - Tomas Venclova.

“Code of Tumas ” is an effort to show the well-known events and processes of history through the eyes of a direct person with a subjective and emotional look. Letters, publicism, all creations of Juozas Tumas Vaižgantas, also memories of his contemporaries make this reconstruction possible.

June 2022 marked the 50th anniversary of the death of historian and public figure Jerzy Orda, one of the most prominent personalities of 20th-century Vilnius. Orda's life, full of dramatic twists and turns, gives filmmakers an opportunity to reflect on the limits of human freedom under totalitarianism.

February 24, 2022 — the invasion begins. Ukrainian museums vanish from Google Maps, and art goes underground. As cultural centres in cities like Kharkiv and Kyiv come under threat, volunteers rise to protect Ukraine’s heritage from annihilation.

Director Jonas Vaitkus speaks boldly, openly and politely in front of the cameras. This is how he talks about his long career. It dares to expose itself, without missing the creator's suffering, nor the endless doubts, nor the indescribable joy of success. Fights with actors and Shakespeare remained side by side in the memory of the 70-year-old Maestro. This is his story. From the first premiere to the last performance.

Biographer Alexander Vasin embarks on a long and winding archival journey, examining the child of the Great Pohulianka, the fearless war pilot, an exceptionally talented writer Roman Kacew, who wrote under the pseudonym Romain Gary.

The film presents Justinas Vienožinskis, the patriarch of Lithuanian painters and founder of the National Academy of Arts, through a dramatic story about a temperamental and independent man.

Three photographers: Antanas Sutkus, Algimantas Kunčius and Romualdas Rakauskas talk about art and their work.

The film examines the development of public narrative, assessment and perception of the artist in different eras. After the death of MK Čiurlionis, an image of a lone genius, the embodiment of the spirit of the nation, is formed.

In the film, we discuss eternal values and the role of dissidents in the modern world with people who belong to this active minority, whose persistence led to the collapse of the Soviet empire.

A story about a Lithuanian ecological and ethnological youth movement "Atgaja". With its radical and creative protests against the Soviet regime, this movement made a significant contribution to regaining the country's independence.