Anima Animus

An NKVD interrogator is about to meet and question a talented writer he himself never was able to succeed. For to be strong and convincible he prepares for an interrogation and rehearses.

Dreaming of an escape from the bleakness of their hometown, two teens form a unique bond at a local modeling school, where the promise of a better life pushes girls to violate their bodies in increasingly extreme ways.

Kaunas, Lithuania, 1941, Lithuanian activist Andrius Gluosnis kills a Jew Isaac in Lietukio garage massacre. Years after the incident Gluosnis is haunted by the guilt.

This film is about human alienation in a consumerist society. Nowadays man surrounded by modern industry tools founds himself solitary. He seeks his way out of the routine and enforced life norms but all he meets is a dead-end.

Champion fighter Osvald is banned from competing after injuring a girl in a street fight. Stranded in his bleak Lithuanian hometown, he takes refuge in a run-down Taiwanese restaurant owned by his only friend, Ju-Long. Court-ordered therapy leads him to Skaistė, a woman who offers a glimpse of a life he's never known. But as Osvald clings to this fragile hope, his violent past resurfaces, forcing him to choose between redemption and self-destruction.

Recently divorced mother Sylvia invites her new boyfriend to the Christmas Eve dinner to meet her two grown-up children.

Four people have lived for many years in a small apartment. Their hearts remain young, but their minds, clouded by time and a sad, perpetually drunken fate, no longer function clearly and cannot think straight.

Left homeless after a fight with her sister Yana spends 24 hours desperately looking for a place to stay.

Energy Island invites viewers for an immersive sensorial trip into the Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant in Lithuania, now undergoing a decommissioning process. The images of contaminated ruins transform in the fire, light and shadow; the destruction of the industrial space consistently reveals how Cold War energy structures impact recent geopolitical processes and leave planetary threats over long periods of time. The project takes a geological approach – it reads things that compose this flat landscape as a stack of stratigraphic layers. The man­made space is understood as a sedimentary process and the infrastructures, as well as the mineral resources, are assessed as the key parameters defining a development of the project.

A time when humanity as a whole refuses to common perception. The time when God is dead, and the man left to his own fate, dies hard, and looks for answers. The way man should go to his unique vision of the world is based on the testing method, how many of his explorations he can afford. If you go too far, you won’t come back. This is the price paid by an individual trying to investigate the limits of body and mind whims. Here comes the clash between the body and mind, between the individual and society, between morality and what is not compatible with it, after all, and between life and death.