Valentin Novopolskij
2021Vortex
Gytis Lukšas
Giedrius Kiela, Jevgenija Verenica
The film is based on the novel by Romualdas Granauskas, winner of the Lithuanian National Cultural and Arts Award, and is the chronicle of a young man’s shifting relationships as he adjusts rather dramatically to the unfamiliarity of freedom. The film will be shown in Lithuanian with English subtitles. Duburys won the Silver Crane Award in Lithuania. It has been selected as Lithuania’s entry for this year’s Oscar nomination in the foreign language film category. Duburys was entered in the Montreal World Film Festival, Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival and has been invited to Cairo International Film Festival and the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
Vortex
Defiance
Edward Zwick
Daniel Craig, Liev Schreiber
Based on a true story, during World War II, four Jewish brothers escape their Nazi-occupied homeland of West Belarus in Poland and join the Soviet partisans to combat the Nazis. The brothers begin the rescue of roughly 1,200 Jews still trapped in the ghettos of Poland.
Defiance
Owl Mountain
Audrius Juzėnas
Paulina Taujanskaitė, Aidas Jurgaitis
Radio Free Europe, BBC, and Voice of America can only rarely get through the Iron Curtain and Soviet mufflers to Lithuania, a country torn by a war between the local resistance movement and the Soviet regime that is forced onto Lithuanian people by bayonets of the Russian army. Everybody who tries to resist the Soviet rule is either terrorized or executed or exiled to Siberia. He is one of the local high-school students who witness the local armed resistance to the Soviet occupation and ultimately decide to join it by taking a gun into their hands. He collects documents and all possible kinds of evidence that prove daunting crimes of the Kremlin. He soon becomes a legend among his peers. To girls, he is John Wayne the Hollywood Icon. Guys see him as an insurmountable obstacle and an invincible rival in matters of love.
Owl Mountain
Oleg
Juris Kursietis
Valentin Novopolskij, Dawid Ogrodnik
Oleg, a young Latvian butcher, arrives in Brussels in the hope of getting a better salary in a meat factory. His experience turns short after being betrayed by a colleague. Alone in a country where he doesn’t belong, he quickly falls under the yoke of Andrzej, a Polish criminal.
Oleg
Nesamasis laikas
Mykolas Vildžiūnas
Tadas Gryn, Valentin Novopolskij
A young man's confusion in present times. The protagonist is looking for answers to questions that are relevant to many of his peers, coming of age in between a nostalgic socialist childhood and ideas pushed by a young democracy, relentlessly rushing forward.
Non-Present Time
Еврей
Dmitry Fiks
Artur Smolyaninov, Aglaya Tarasova
Конец 1940-х. Михаил Красницкий ведет тихую жизнь под Ростовом вместе с любимой женой Ривой. Когда умирает первенец Михаила и Ривы, герой принимает это как знак свыше. Под предлогом командировок герой начинает разъезжать по городам СССР, где хладнокровно, по неясной причине совершает убийства. Следователю УгРо капитану Смолову удается связать между собой дела об убийствах, произошедших в разных концах страны.
Еврей
Winter Thaw
Adam Thomas Anderegg
John Rhys-Davies, Karl Johnson
In late nineteenth-century Russia, Martin Avdeitch is a humble shoemaker whose life has been characterized by grief. Martin must find the courage to look outside himself and trust in the goodness of God. This BYUtv original holiday special is based on Leo Tolstoy's short story, "Martin the Cobbler," and stars John Rhys-Davies.
Winter Thaw
MEŽS:ЛЕС
Liena Šmukste
Andris Keišs, Guna Zariņa
It’s November and “the planets realigned a week ago,” says a police inspector in complete astrological earnestness. A desperate woman has turned to the police asking for help to find her daughter, Anna. She is 21 years old, is getting good grades at the Krasnoyarsk State Pedagogical University and has been missing for three days. On the same day, a man arrives at the police station because he has found a phone in the forest while walking his dog. It turns out that the smartphone with the Instagram account “Muha_v_komnate” belongs to the missing girl. The stories that Anna’s family members, friends and those close to her tell clash, leading the chief investigator to question whether anyone ever really knew the girl.
Forest
