Sofija Gedgaudaitė

It is highly probable that before their own death, everyone has to organise someone else’s funeral. This is by far not an easy task. In addition to the searing grief, dying also brings a number of tasks that are at once utterly alien and intensely time-critical. The main character of this film, Dovile, who unexpectedly has to bury her father, has to face the bedlam of exactly such a challenge. Overnight, the young girl has to become a skilful organiser of a family event, while also being a specialist on coffins, urns, wreaths and funeral feasts. Dovile’s journey towards organising a perfect funeral is inevitably full of hardship and mishaps, accompanied mainly by black humour and comical situations.

Alexei, after spending 15 years in prison, is released on probation. It is difficult for him to accept the new order. Ridden with guilt, he tries to come to terms with his daughter Maja, who has become a prostitute.

With gentle irony, “Cinephilia” unmasks the illusion of film. Characters migrate through the worlds of reality and fantasy, in circumstances that paradoxically have no questions or answers. The two moons of Lars von Trier shine in the night sky, entrancing the main heroes, Roland and Isabel. Roland rents himself a room where he winds up in situations reminiscent of the plots found in Franz Kafka’s “The Trial” or Roman Polański’s “The Tenant”. A guy visits Roland, claiming that they known each other, and offers him a lot of money to film his suicide. There begins a kaleidoscopic sequence of events and random acquaintances. They make the characters wander through the worlds of reality and fantasy, sometimes both at the same time. A dark comedy that tells nine related stories in which the fates of the characters intertwine.

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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 world's hardest - and weirdest - heavy metal band Impaled Rektum is serving their sentence in Norway's nicest prison. They receive word that guitarist Lotvonen's parents' reindeer herding farm is about to come under the hammer. It will take a big gig and big money to save the farm. A breakout ensues and a trip to the world's biggest heavy festival, Wacken in northern Germany begins. The higher the target, the bigger the obstacles. This is what the boys will experience on their epic journey to the main stage of Wacken - every metalhead's heaven.

After discovering a brutally beaten drag queen Klaudijus, in his apartment building, homophobe Rolandas reluctantly takes him to the hospital and becomes his first response. As the police investigate and Klaudijus’ life hangs in the balance, Rolandas is forced to rethink his beliefs.

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Dreaming of an escape from the bleakness of their hometown, two teens form a unique bond at a local modeling school, where the promise of a better life pushes girls to violate their bodies in increasingly extreme ways.

Jonas and his girlfriend, Nina, travel to a remote log house owned by a film director named Rokas, where they are supposed to shoot a film. As they spend time together, the boundaries between work and personal life melt; they cook, dance, go to the sauna, and prepare for the film simultaneously.

Two middle-agers – a dreamy fisherman and an emotionally guarded architect — are lured into five dates by their scheming adult children, only to discover through a series of awkward situations that it’s never too late to fall in love.

A young sex worker, Maria, sets out to reconnect with her estranged biological father, but their growing relationship takes an unexpected turn as she conceals her true identity, forcing her to confront the delicate line between deception and healing.

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