From “Stranger Things” to “Concrete Music”: Vytautas Riabovas on Locations That Shape Cinema
Some professions permanently change the way you see a city. For a location manager, a building is never just a building, an abandoned factory is not necessarily a ruin, and a place whose owner says, “You won’t find anything interesting here,” may turn out to be exactly what a film crew has been searching for […]
A Story That Waited for Its Time: Director Ernestas Jankauskas on The Queen of England Stole My Parents, Where Imagination Becomes Stronger Than Reality
Some stories come to life quickly, while others patiently wait for the right moment. Director Ernestas Jankauskas’ family feature film The Queen of England Stole My Parents has been making its way to the big screen for more than a decade – from an award-winning short film that received the Lithuanian Silver Crane Award to […]
“Hold Me Closer” Is About More Than Love – It Is Also About Freedom: Screenwriter Birutė Kapustinskaitė on Codependency, Closeness and Relationships
What happens when the desire to be close to someone collides with the fear of losing yourself? Is it possible to preserve a relationship when, in the process, you begin to lose who you are? These are the questions explored in the feature film Hold Me Closer, currently in production, written by playwright and screenwriter […]
“Silver Crane” – A Celebration and a Mirror of the Industry: Laimonas Ubavičius and Darius Vaitiekūnas on the Significance of Lithuania’s National Film Awards
Every year, the Lithuanian National Film Awards “Silver Crane” bring together the country’s film community and become one of the most important cinematic events of the year.
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”).
“The best movie – without music?”: composers on silence, tension, and why music sometimes gets in the way
What do you hear when “nothing is happening” in a movie? Sometimes – that’s exactly when everything begins. Composers Paulius Kilbauskas and Vygintas Kisevičius have been creating music for films, commercials, and the stage for over 15 years, but they themselves point out a paradox: the best music in cinema is sometimes… its absence. While […]