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Browse 103 movies from Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre
The Lost Land is a short documentary about an ancient forest that sank beneath the Baltic Sea 12,000 years ago. The film follows Professor Vladas Žulkus and his team as they explore the seabed and study the remains of the trees. Their discoveries help us understand the past and reveal how climate change could reshape our coastline in the future.
Oct 2026
One summer, a twelve-year-old girl works at her grandma's bistro, full of strange adults.
Mar 2026
The year is 2000. Aleksandra, a young prosecutor, is handling a human trafficking case. She must conduct two interrogation sessions in one day. First, Aleksandra faces Andrius – a high-school friend turned suspect, who provokes and undermines her strategy, not leaving her any breathing space. During the second interrogation, she talks with Viktorija, the victim who has personal reasons to distrust law enforcement.
Mar 2021
Julia, a promising twelfth-grade violinist who has suffered emotional abuse from her special education teacher for years, finally dares to fight back when the teacher keeps on her playing before a competition performance. The teacher quickly quells her resistance with threats and pushing, but as she is about to leave the classroom, Julia has an idea. When Julia goes to take the stage, the teacher pushes Julia to go for it.
Jan 2025
Martynas' peaceful morning is disrupted by the return of his roommate with a girlfriend. His curiosity soon becomes part of the couple's game.
Nov 2025
Sofija, longing for connection, meets Adomas during a night out in Vilnius. As they walk home together, both quietly lost in their own worlds, they search for closeness without saying too much. During the journey, the portrait of a young, carefree person unfolds.
Jan 2026
A mute guy struggles to fit in at a construction site. Tensions rise among the workers when a colleague gets badly injured.
Jan 2024
A thirteen-year-old boy Marius is an outcast who often feels invisible to the world around him. One day, he becomes intrigued by a mysterious incident at school, where his biology teacher is injured with a snowball thrown by an unknown classmate.
Divorced couple Bernardas and Silvia live together, avoiding interaction through a strict schedule. Unexpectedly, Lukas arrives with a cryptic message for Silvia. As they navigate this twist, Bernardas recalls how they met through a similar ad. Tensions rise, love rekindles, and desires resurface. Closer explores love's complexities, unexpected encounters, and self-discovery in a poignant and emotionally charged tale of second chances.
Nov 2024
Simas wakes up - hungover, as usual - only to find his ex-girlfriend at his doorstep. Later on his best friend Vacys comes over as well. The friends suddenly find themselves at the never-ending party of life, in the background of which their loves, ex-loves and present friendships take form and shine through. This is an excerpt from the lives of three young people, a story about indecision and attempts to understand all the rights and wrongs in life.
Nov 2015
How would you feel if you knew your exact date of death? A time comes when every person in the world can find it out. Beloglazovai family – Kolia, Lena, their daughter Sonia and teenage son Igor live in an old house in Vilnius. Today is the day when fourteen year old Igor must die.
Mar 2018
Left homeless after a fight with her sister Yana spends 24 hours desperately looking for a place to stay.
Nov 2017
Emilė always lives ten steps ahead: she knows how things should be. That doesn't help her on an awkward date - a poker party where everyone lives in the moment.
Mar 2025
Woman searches for her torn-off fingernail - the only thing that could prove that what her body remembers is not just a nightmare.
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Boxing coaches watch female teenage boxers participating at the competition and experience hardships, victory and defeat.
May 2025
Early in the morning, the air-raid siren goes off. Mother's darkest thoughts become true. She awakens her little son and hurries to pick up only the outfit that is at hand and runs out to protect their lives. In the boy's room, deathly silence reigns with no hope that the family will ever come back there again.
Mar 2020
It is late at night in the city. A middle-aged woman hears garage doors opening. A young girl Saulė returns to her mother’s house frightened. The mother sees her daughter standing soaked from the rain, so she tries to find out why she suddenly came back. After a few unsuccessful mother’s attempts to start a conversation, the daughter admits that her ex-boyfriend is stalking her. Watching her being upset the mother gets the idea to take revenge on the boyfriend.
Jan 2023
When the mother of four children goes on vacation for the first time, she does not encounter a wonderful natural landscape, but the inconvenience of being without family, household and children, in which she discovers the need to hear herself.
It's the end of the 90s, a 16-year-old Inga living in a small village is prepared to drop everything and get out. The teenager is trying to escape her own youth as fast as possible, although her friends are trying to warn her of the dangers of her journey.
Nov 2021
A talkative taxi driver roams the nightly streets. An apathetic girl enters his car. The two don't seem to connect, until she asks to make a stop with intent to cause harm upon someone. Does their shared trip even have a destination?
Nov 2022