Podnieks On Podnieks. A Witness To History / 2024

A film about the outstanding Latvian film director Juris Podnieks, who during his lifetime gained the fame of a fighter for justice and an "eye-opener". Podnieks has created testimonies about the most important events of the twentieth century in the post-Soviet territory. He always saw a bigger picture, it was not just Latvia what interested him. His ability to cover such a wide spectrum of themes - wars, lost freedom of his own country, the Soviet regime and its collapse, young people, artists. But most importantly, he was always focusing on the human soul. Juris creates an emotional bond between the author and his characters, the characters and the viewer - he was talking to each individual. Perhaps this is why his films made such an effect on the viewer. Juris Podnieks has clearly been able to influence millions of viewers with his films. Juris himself died in the summer of 1992 in a diving accident. Did he manage to fulfill his mission in this life?

Bridges of Time / 2018

At the beginning of the 1960s, when the French pioneers of cinéma vérité set out to achieve a new realism, and when direct cinema in Québec began to vie for notice, the Baltics wit-nessed the birth of a generation of documentarists who favored a more romantic view of the world around them. This meditative documentary essay – from a Latvian writer and Lithuanian director whose composed touch has long dovetailed with the stylistically diverse works of the Baltic New Wave – pushes adroitly past the limits of the common his-toriographic investigation to create a portrait of less-clearly remembered filmmakers. The result is a consummate poetic treatment of the ontology of documentary creation. Also a cinematic poem about cinema poets.

Lightning Trap: Leina & Laika / 1990

In present day Tokyo, traveling has never been more comfortable than aboard the Lightning L808, Japan's new luxury passenger plane. One day, on what seemed to be a routine flight, Haruka Leina and the plane's passengers were unaware of the mysterious and top secret cargo brought aboard, which attracted the attention of international terrorists set on obtaining it. Now, with a dangerous hostage situation at hand, only special agent Laika Strange and brave Leina may be able to save the passengers, and keep the deadly cargo from falling into the wrong hands...

A Renaissance Man / 2021

When you first meet Kaspars Putriņš, you get the impression that this person lives outside of time. Friends call him a Renaissance man. Kaspars builds medieval musical instruments which are very rare in Europe, works as a sound director, forms part of the alternative music group “Amoral Psychosis”, and studies developments in nature and space. Not only Kaspars’s professional activity, but also his very way of life raises the question – does the age create a man, or does a man create his age?

The Weather in August / 1983

A coming-of-age drama about a thirteen-year old boy Ilmārs, who suddenly gets entangled in his parents' relationship crisis as well as experiences his own first romantic feelings, too.

Laika, Tito e o Universo / 2022

Laikapark (Épisode 0 et Épisode 2) / 2003

On the Edge of Time / 2017

The inhabitants of the Benedictine Monastery in Lithuania have preserved the ancient traditional lifestyle of monks that requires a life of poverty, chastity and obedience. Their daily life filled with silence and rituals are captured in this short film.

Time Will Come / 2022

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?

Laika & Nemo / 2022

In his costal village, Nemo is an outsider. With his diving suit and the huge helmet he looks different than everybody else and won't fit in. But his life is about to change when he meets Laika, an astronaut.

Time Walks Through the City / 1966

The main hero of this film is the city of Vilnius. Vilnius is also a metaphor for the historicity of Lithuania. However, this film is unique not only for its cinematographic historical reflections on the statehood of Lithuania; it also reveals the history of cinema, encompassing both Soviet montage techniques and the first traces of cinéma-vérité in Lithuanian cinema.

LAIKA! & Lonesome Cowboy /

A short experimental double feature. 'LAIKA!' LAIKA! Envisions the final moments of the first creature sent into space, the Soviet dog, Laika. In dramatic black and white, the helpless animal's terminal moments are orchestrated by Mozart. 'Lonesome Cowboy' Lonesome Cowboy is a single shot improvised monologue performed by Sam Osborne. It follows an alcoholic cowboy arguing with his mirror image, about expectations, habits and the future.

Mushrooms. I have no time / 2014

The film is a tragic story of a rural woman who, until the first frost in the woods, is trying to pick all the remaining mushrooms. She is running out of time and obsession with the inability to manage it gradually destroys the woman. Imperceptible from beginning, but over time already visible, just like mushrooms, the inability grows and takes over the main character.

Non-Present Time / 2014

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.

Bonds of Time / 2022

The director writes: “We are not meant to live without sadness. Sadness for humans not knowing how to be human. It is 1922. What was he thinking? What are they thinking now? He comes home to ask for water and his mother doesn’t recognise him anymore. What difference does it make? A century has passed, and nothing has changed”. A dadaistic cinematic essay like a river of time, that shows respect to Buñuel. Filmed in analogue and dispersed through images of body parts, a couple close together, leisurely observations, animal skulls, and changing nature – a nova terra, or new world, seems to be thus revealed. The director’s voice sounds out from behind the camera, capturing us, making us want to join in and ask questions.

Laika / 2017

Laika, a Japanese woman studying in Moscow, moves in with Yulia, an aspiring actress, and they develop an intimate relationship.

In Time / 20116.5648 voti

Will Salas ha venticinque anni da tre anni e la volontà di resistere in un mondo in cui il tempo che resta da vivere è denaro. Nel futuro di Will, uomini e donne sono geneticamente programmati per raggiungere i venticinque anni, età dopo la quale avranno diritto a un anno extra e a una vita affannata e consumata a guardare il proprio orologio biologico. Un timer digitale che segna ogni minuto, ora, giorno, mese, anno guadagnato lavorando o rubando. Figlio premuroso di una madre mai invecchiata, Will salva la vita a un uomo ricco di tempo che intuisce la sua nobiltà e lo ricambia con un secolo di vita. Un secolo che Will è deciso a investire, raggiungendo la Time Zone, dove i ricchi vivono blindati e a spese dei più miserabili, e sfidando l'ordine costituito. Lo aiuterà imprevedibilmente nell'impresa una ricca ereditiera dai grandi occhi e il grande cuore, pronta a ipotecare l'immortalità e a 'spendere' finalmente la propria vita.