Arturas Pravilionis

Facts is a dramatization of a massacre in a Lithuanian village during World War II when Nazis rounded up over 100 men, women, and children accused of partisan activity and then torched the houses in which they were held. Using Russian interrogations of a few survivors, the testimony of villagers, and some of the Germans responsible for the killing, the film gradually reconstructs the event and its context.

A story about a teenagers confrontation with the adult world, in poetic and slightly melancholic mood. Benas is not an adult yet but not a child any more while his town is visited by new interesting people who change his life: events make him grown up.