Somewhere in Eastern Europe, a middle-aged blue-collar worker rents a room in his flat to a young single mother and her son. The man searches for ways to get closer to her, but all his efforts are in vain. One night, he brings home a bottle of champagne and tries to surprise her, with the hope of developing an intimate relationship.

Migle’s grandfather has been living in an apartment that is too big for him. Two sibling families decided to move him out. In order to please Migle, Eimantas comes to grandfather’s home to help family move all the furniture. But not everyone in the family is happy about his presence.

A road movie, buddy picture and romance rolled into one, Low Lights pivots on a love triangle that evolves when two men and a woman take to ritual night driving. Transforming cold urban space into something charged with excitement, the drives provide the hope the trio so desperately needs.

This meticulously researched, tense and timely historical drama marks the outstanding acting debut of the previously unknown Donatas Želvys. The actor devoted an entire year for the challenging major leading role, living strictly in character, voluntarily starving himself and becoming a chain smoker. He was the only crew member who remained untouched by Covid. Two directors from different generations, Giedrius Tamoševičius (long-time assistant to Sergey Loznitsa on his fearture films) and Vytautas V. Landsbergis (co-writer of the IDFA winning “Mr. Landsbergis”), chose the same intimidating and suppressing post-war period as Šarūnas Bartas in “In the Dusk”. A newly appointed teacher, Kostas Skinkys, arrives at a remote village school. The famous journalist and distinguished poet was downgraded for illegal publications and forbidden anti-Soviet verses. Suspicious locals still prefer to test his loyalties, while children willingly recite his verses from “To My Soviet Motherland”, written under pressure to praise Uncle Lenin in order to save his parents from deportation. The introverted Kostas recognises a former schoolmate and librarian Julija. She doesn’t rush to trust her unforgotten darling, but eventually shows him a secret wintery path to the Dainava resistance platoon’s underground bunker. Partisan leader Tauras demands that the poet publish more hope-filled verses in support of the drained people. During those frightful years of doubts, instructions and requests, everyone was forced to make choices in one way or another – adapt, resist, obey, sell yourself out, collaborate, betray, accept opportunities, or give up. Your life depended on what you thought and what you said even when you weren’t aware that you were also lying to yourself. The majority of the events are based on true testimonies, published facts and precious memories, collected from helpful relatives and rescued notes. The protagonists are fictional, but created on the basis of the real biographies of several prototypes. Kostas Skinkys is created from the lives of two Lithuanian poets, Kostas Kubilinskas and Kazys Skinkys. What you will witness here may have happened in reality, so authentically and daringly recreated in the film.

The plot follows an ordinary woman whose family are becoming estranged. Her daughter is a compulsive liar, and her husband seeks escape by working as a stuntman in a B movie with a third-rate film company. The chances of him dying while filming are high, and everybody in the family knows it. Tormented by the thought that she is no longer needed and is unloved by her family, the woman will go to any extreme to prove the opposite, and to keep her family together for ever.

Shortly after the fall of the iron curtain, 12-year-old Kovas, travels to his mother, Viktorija’s homeland for the first time. It has been 20 years since Viktorija escaped the USSR and has now returned to reclaim her beloved family estate.

A rookie policeman is left alone in a private clinic to guard a comatose suspect of World War II crimes. His shift is long over, yet nobody comes to replace him. However, the youngster is determined not to leave his post until he gets permission from his authorities to do so. Lack of sleep, loneliness, hunger and the persistence to serve his duty turn the young man into a ticking time bomb at the very wrong time. He must decide how far he can go guarding this suspect who is hated to death by everyone.