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The Embassy of Lithuania together with Donelaitis Society are happy to invite you and your friends to the annual Lithuanian films screenings, which this year will take place at Kino K-13 in Katakanokka (Kanavakatu 12, Helsinki).  Make sure you mark your calendar for November 6, 18.00 and November 8, 18.00. First evening Mindaugas Survila, the director of the film SENGIRĖ , will be present and we will have an opportunity to discuss with him about the creative process and four years he spent in the magic woods. Screenings are in Lithuanian language with English subtitles. Free Entrance

More about films:

NOVEMBER 6, 18.00

• SENGIRĖ │ The Ancient Woods

2017 │ 86 min. │ Documentary │Director: Mindaugas Survila

A poetic and atypical nature film takes its viewers on the endless journey – from the forestthickets to the wolves’ caves and up to black stork’s nest, and then deep into the water to the underwater forest, returning after to the human beings inhabiting the edge of the woodland. There is no commentary, only rich, almost palpable sounds of the forest and the magical situations captured by the camera. Filmed in one of the last remaining patches of old growth forest in Lithuania, "The Ancient Woods" is a place where the boundaries of time melt and everything that exists does not wither or age but “grows into” eternity.

Discussion with the director Mindaugas Survila after the screening.

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NOVEMBER 8, 18.00

• JAU PUIKU, TIK DAR ŠIEK TIEK │ It Would Be Splendid, Yet

2009 │ 28 min │ Short │ Director: Lina Lužytė

The year 1992. Lithuania is already independent. One day at her workplace, a factory worker Danguole wins the SPECIAL prize. This means she will be entitled to welcome an American press-photographer who is coming to Lithuania in three days. She and her family are to represent the New Lithuania to the world in a photo reportage to be issued. This way the factory worker Danguole becomes a kind of a Lithuanian ambassador. Obviously, everything she owns is dated, soviet-tinged and cannot represent anything. The New Lithuania should be newly fashioned. The problem is... what exactly does the 'newly fashioned' mean?

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NOVEMBER 8, 18.30

• HOLIVUDAS PASIŪLĖ PER MAŽAI │Too Good for Hollywood

2017 │ 26 min │ Short │ Director: Rimantas Oičenka

Valdemaras Isoda got hooked on cinema since five. This addiction never went away. He is not a film director, he is not a screenwriter, nor a critic. He is a man who had been too good for Hollywood.

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NOVEMBER 8, 19.00

• STEBUKLAS │ Miracle

2017 │ 91 min │ Tragicomedy │ Director: Eglė Vertelytė

It is 1992 and Lithuania has shifted from communism to capitalism, leaving the small collective pig farm managed by Irena, in dire straits. Irena struggles to keep the farm and her workers afloat when a handsome American, Bernardas, arrives pledging to save the struggling enterprise and turns Irena‘s family life and routine of the village upside-down. As Irena begins to fall for his charms, she realizes that his intentions may not be entirely innocent…