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In Soviet eighties, 11-year-old Rolanas and Emilija form friendship after parents' divorce. They communicate through walls, balconies, and sockets, but a tragic accident prevents Emilija from going on a date.

Once a year, a quiet and secluded village in the north-western part of Lithuania comes alive to celebrate Catholic Easter, doing its best to preserve the vanishing ancient tradition of the Guardians of the Cross. With gentle humor observing the preparations of the local community for the vigil and immersing the audience in Easter night, the filmmakers raise questions about the relationship between the sacred and profane in the modern world.

After a long time away from the homeland, father and son are destined to visit. However, such place doesn't exist and no one's even heard of it. Suddenly a strange bus appears, going to this place. Father and son are its only passengers. After a long trip, the bus arrives at a peculiar place with no houses, no people, no nature, and no land... only white mountains standing there like a blank, empty page.

Who was Antanas Moncys? A Lithuanian. A Samogitian. An emigrant. A Parisian. A son. Father. Husband. Brother. Sculptor. An artist who merged an archaic Lithuanian worldview with modern Western European art.

Waiting that makes you grow up. Saule (15) and Liucija (6) are two sisters living alone, waiting for their parents who have temporarily gone to London in search of work. The biggest responsibility falls on older Saule's shoulders - she must take care of Liucija, look after home while dealing with the usual issues of a teenager's life. With so much on her plate and the huge stress Saule is unable to fit in with her peers. The girls do their best to live on their own and struggle with reality but sometimes being a grown-up is just too hard.

The "Field of Magic" is a docu-poem about people living for over two decades in the Buda forest, near the closed down Kariotiskes dump in Lithuania. After four years of work, this film captures the perspective of the dump dwellers. It tells the story about the dissolving community, its uniqueness, daily routine, specific way of life, every-day joys and sorrows.

Young psychoanalyst Jurgis Hishas starts his Sunday with an anxious thought: his patient Franek will kill him. While fear and weakness reaches the top, suddenly Franek appears and brings him a nicely packed surprise - present. He appeals to the conscience of Hish, blames him being a bad doctor and provokes a crazy game of questions and answers. Finally, Hishy has to guess, what is inside of the package...

It is an another world. A world far away from city noise and so called "modern culture". A world that was created by God, not by human beings. Jonas, called by the villagers the "Bull", because of his unbelievable strength, lives in such a world. He walks through his life unrushed and certain, reminding a today's man of his fragility. He reveals a world where life and death, joy and sadness, power and weakness coexist together inseparably, a world which fills up with apocalyptic visions and the "end of the world" feeling.

Souther is a poetic cinematic fairytale about a man living in his own traps, unable and scared to enjoy life. Full of desire but lacking in decision. Mystic wind drives him into a bizarre town to encounter himself.

Dinner is a short documentary about people from the most vulnerable social layer. Every day they gather at the door of a charity canteen, waiting for a plate of hot food. Half-hour waiting makes for a dozen life stories revealing the fragile line between human hope and despair.