Tbilisi Will Host a Lithuanian Film Week in May
From 3rd to 8th of May, two locations in Tbilisi – Cinema House “Kolga” and 33A Club in Vake Park – will host a first ever festival of contemporary Lithuanian cinema in Georgia. The program will include 16 feature films, documentaries and short films that had been produced in Lithuania during the past 20 years.
The most prominent names of the program are: Šarūnas Bartas, the cult film director of independent art-house cinema; Arūnas Matelis, who was awarded the Best Director award in Documentary Feature category during the Directors Guild of America Awards 2006 for “Before Flying Back to the Earth” to become only the second film from Eastern Europe, since Roman Polanski's “The Pianist” in 2003, to win an award in the ADG; as well Kristina Buožytė who was awarded Silver Crane Best Feature Film of the Year 2008 for “The Collectress.”
During the festival the Georgian public will have a possibility to not only watch Lithuanian movies but also meet with their directors Raimundas Banionis (who will personally present his cult film “Children from Hotel America”), Tomas Donela (film „Farewell“), Vytautas V. Landsbergis (“When I Was a Partisan”), Algimantas Maceina (“Tbilisi-89” and “Black Box”), Arvydas Liorančas (“Fixed Pictures”), and Arturas Jevdokimovas (“Up by the River”).
Full-length feature and documentary films will be followed up by the works of young Lithuanian filmmakers. Some of these works have already been successfully featured at international film festivals („Noroutine“ by Jūratė Samulionytė, „It Would Be Splendid, Yet...“ by Lina Lužytė).
On 8th of May, 2 pm, Cinema House “Kolga” will host a meeting with the former Lithuanian students of the Shota Rustaveli Theatre and
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In 2010, the festival visited
Full-length fiction movies and documentaries will be shown in Cinema House “Kolga” from May 3rd till May 8th.
Short Film Special and The Collectress by Kristina Buožytė will be screened in 33A Club in
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