Capsule 2023
A memory capsule of the Academy as it is to us - skipping lectures, partying and discovering deep connections with fellow students.
A memory capsule of the Academy as it is to us - skipping lectures, partying and discovering deep connections with fellow students.
Two strangers accidentally meet on a train and immediately find it hard to communicate. Too Young to Drive is a story about the hardship of finding ways to each other. Every year over ten thousand divorces are registered in Lithuania. At times when various means of communication are available to us, we are struggling to find ways and time to talk to a person close to us. Two people. One train. Different directions.
A talkative taxi driver roams the nightly streets. An apathetic girl enters his car. The two don't seem to connect, until she asks to make a stop with intent to cause harm upon someone. Does their shared trip even have a destination?
Max goes on a date with another guy, Tadas, whom he met online. Max feels uncomfortable and timid so Tadas decides to act on his own initiative. He tries to get to know Max as they embark on a night ride around the city but Max is evasive to talk about himself. Max feels torn between his feelings and Tadas' pressure. Eventually he breaks down and reveals his true identity.
Two girls are trying to get drugs in late-hour Vilnius while their adventures open up woeful city's nightlife, full of apathy and failed communication.
Divorced couple Bernardas and Silvia live together, avoiding interaction through a strict schedule. Unexpectedly, Lukas arrives with a cryptic message for Silvia. As they navigate this twist, Bernardas recalls how they met through a similar ad. Tensions rise, love rekindles, and desires resurface. Closer explores love's complexities, unexpected encounters, and self-discovery in a poignant and emotionally charged tale of second chances.
Left homeless after a fight with her sister Yana spends 24 hours desperately looking for a place to stay.
Vaiva dreams of living in Spain with her Spanish boyfriend. Before leaving for the foreign country, she needs to save up some money for her new start and begins working as a nurse for a bedridden man in a remote village of Lithuania. Time passes by slowly here, and the Spanish lover doesn’t pick up the phone for days.
It is late at night in the city. A middle-aged woman hears garage doors opening. A young girl Saulė returns to her mother’s house frightened. The mother sees her daughter standing soaked from the rain, so she tries to find out why she suddenly came back. After a few unsuccessful mother’s attempts to start a conversation, the daughter admits that her ex-boyfriend is stalking her. Watching her being upset the mother gets the idea to take revenge on the boyfriend.
Milda is planning to spend a night with her friends, but the news of her grampa's death slowly sets in.
Domas is a kleptomaniac. He works in a sport club through an integration program which helps people with mental disorders to return to society. One day he does not manage to resist and steals a bag from a young doctor Simona, who is living through an existential crisis. She asks his help to find her things. Domas feels ashamed, but he cannot confess. He offers her a ride home. Together they go on a journey through the night in Vilnius, their painful experiences reveal as well as a fragile, but at the same time impossible connection between them sets up.
Two brothers work in the forest. By accident tree falls on one of them and when painful secret is revealed brotherly love starts hanging by a thread.
A mute guy struggles to fit in at a construction site. Tensions rise among the workers when a colleague gets badly injured.
A recently broken up couple spends their last evening together: for one of the girls this is the last chance to revive their relationship, for the other – to show the true meaning of it and why it should have ended.
Ieva is a teenager who’s facing the day of her grandmother‘s funeral. All Ieva wants is to say goodbye to her grandmother in her own way, but this goal is interfered with by the domestic problems of such processions and the growing distance between Ieva and her mother.
A documentary to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Faculty of Film and Television.
A secretive man’s inner thoughts confronts against the reality.
Film school students try to tackle the problem of the missing additional crosswalk to the Sluškai Palace.
Tadas, his pregnant girlfriend Grete and friend Robis live in an abandoned house. The couple decides to start a course of addiction treatment, but before they do, they are tempted to use heroin for the last time.
The year is 2000. Aleksandra, a young prosecutor, is handling a human trafficking case. She must conduct two interrogation sessions in one day. First, Aleksandra faces Andrius – a high-school friend turned suspect, who provokes and undermines her strategy, not leaving her any breathing space. During the second interrogation, she talks with Viktorija, the victim who has personal reasons to distrust law enforcement.