As announced by the Lithuanian Film Center, which organizes the event, four films by Lithuanian, Latvian and Estonian filmmakers from recent years will be shown in three days.
On Tuesday evening, the program will be opened by the Latvian and Lithuanian film “My Freedom”, directed by Ilze Kunga-Melgailė, inspired by the life story of Polish journalist Ita Kozakiewicz.
After the film screening, a meeting with actresses Velta Žygure and Dovile Šilkaityta is planned.
On Wednesday, the audience will be able to see the Latvian, Lithuanian and Czech documentary film “Homo Sovieticus”, directed by Ivo Briedis.
The tape interviews the participants of a show held in Moscow in 1991, who were asked whether they would like to live in their nation-states or in a united union, and tries to answer what path young people and their states took after the collapse of the Soviet Union.
On the same evening, Estonian director Anna Hints’ Bath Sisters, recognized as the best documentary film about women bathers, will be screened at the European Film Awards.
On Thursday, the program will be completed by the Estonian comedy “Unseen Struggle”, directed by Rainer Sarnet, about the science of Eastern martial arts in the Soviet Union, the focus of which is a local Orthodox monastery.
All screenings of “Baltic Cinema Days” will be free.
#Baltic #Cinema #Days #start #Vilnius #Culture
2024-08-28 10:23:11
