Cannes Film Festival Between Politics and the Magic of Cinema: Film Critic Dmitrij Gluščevskij on This Year’s Cannes

The Cannes Film Festival has remained one of the most important platforms in the global film industry for decades. It is where the year’s biggest premieres are born, cinematic trends begin to take shape, and the festival’s competition lineup often becomes a kind of roadmap for the film year ahead. Yet today, Cannes is not […]
Two Films, two different worlds, one Cannes: costume designer Rūta Lečaitė on working on “Ulya” and “Spring”

This year at the Cannes Film Festival, the work of costume designer Rūta Lečaitė will be seen in two films – Latvian director Viesturs Kairišs’ “Ulya” and the Lithuanian-Ukrainian-French co-production “Vesna” (“Spring”).
Arnas Balčiūnas’ Short Film Class Photo to Compete at Cannes

As the prestigious Cannes Film Festival announced the program for the Critics’ Week, it was revealed that Arnas Balčiūnas’ short film Class Photo has been selected for the short film competition. The Lithuanian director’s film will compete alongside nine other short films from around the world, selected from a pool of 2,400 submissions. Class Photo […]