Festival Coordinator in Kaunas

2000 Meters to Andriivka (dir. Mstyslav Chernov)

COMPETITION
A difficult yet must-watch film.
A painful successor to 20 Days in Mariupol. Mstyslav Chernov, alongside members of Ukraine’s 3rd Assault Brigade, captures the counter-offensive without heroism and distance. Grenades, drones, bodies, the faces of young soldiers, and the foreknowledge that many of them will soon perish. This is a war happening nearby us that we cannot forget for a single day.

Barrio Triste (Dir. Stillz)

LOST, LOST, LOST
A fusion of two incredibly interesting artists.
Stillz, a well-known new wave photographer and music video director who worked with Bad Bunny for a long time, becomes a filmmaker.
Arca, one of the most relevant and influential contemporary sound artists in the world.
The action takes us to Medellín, Colombia, in the 1980s . A group of impulsive youngsters steal a video camera from a local TV reporter and begin documenting their complex daily lives – this camera becomes the central axis of the film’s aesthetic.

It Was Just an Accident (Dir. Jafar Panahi)

MASTERS
A journey of a moral trap. A political-historical comedy drama.
A random traffic accident turns into a confrontation with a potential torturer, where yearning for revenge meets the boundaries of justice. Devoid of easy answers, fueled by dark humor and painful human truth – a film that stays with you long after the screening.

Sounds of the Desert (Dir. Emilija Škarnulytė)

LITHUANIAN PREMIERES, FILMS ABOUT MUSIC
A musical-visual journey where sound becomes a form of thought and image becomes a layer of time and ideas. Local creator Emilija Škarnulytė returns to one of the most radical artists of the 20th century – Sun Ra, the pioneer of Afrofuturism, whose music has always been more than just music to me personally.

Resurrection (Dir. Bi Gan)

MASTERS
Humanity has lost the ability to dream – Resurrection merges different eras and genres from silent cinema and film noir to Buddhist allegory, neorealism, and a vampire romance. Visually hypnotizing, formally daring, and open to interpretation, the film consciously chooses style over a clear narrative, reminding us what cinema can be when it is allowed to think in images.