Rytis Saladžius

The Wedding

A corrupt politician tries to get some decency points by marrying his beloved daughter to a simple farm guy.

Owl Mountain

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.

Crucifixion

A secretive man’s inner thoughts confronts against the reality.

It's Alright

Two middle-aged people are going on a date in a secret place by the river.

Free Finga: Pasikeist

The concert "Pasikeist" at the Compensa Concert Hall in Vilnius drew you into the visual and mystical world of music from the very first sound. In the ruins of a future house, as the red clock strikes an ever later hour, reality and dreams begin to mix, guests appear and everything is not as it seems.

In the Dusk

Lithuania, 1948. War is over, but the country is left in ruins. 19-year-old Untė is a member of the Partisan movement resisting Soviet occupation. They do not fight on equal terms, but this desperate struggle will determine the future of the whole population. At the age of discovery of life, Untė discovers violence and treachery. The lines are blurred between the burning passion of his youth and the cause for which he is fighting. He will invest himself wholeheartedly, even if it means losing his innocence…

A Wake

A daughter tries to organise her deceased mother’s funeral during the pandemic. Despite her efforts to stick to the tradition as much as possible in order to avoid malicious gossip from the relatives, the wake spirals into chaos.

Time Will Come

While having lunch on a distant roadside, Dovydas sees an extravagantly dressed girl Aiste, wandering in the horizon. He agrees to give her a ride to the nearest café, where Aiste rushes to see a video report about herself on TV. Step by step, Dovydas starts to suspect that Aiste has created a fictional version of herself, and tension between them raises a question: are they really just strangers to one another?