Arūnas Matelis

6.8 MovieThey're called water carriers, domestics, 'gregarios', 'Sancho Panzas' of professional cycling. Always at the back of the group, with no right for a personal victory....

Wonderful Losers: A Different World

2017

7.7 MovieThe film features an incredibly low angel’s flight over the dunes of Nida, Trakai castle, the lakes of Aukstaitija (Highlands), the roofs of the Old Town of Vilnius...

Flight Over Lithuania or 510 Seconds of Silence

2000

7.2 MovieDocumentary about a hospital ward for children with leukemia in Lithuania.

Before Flying Back to Earth

2005

5.8 MovieAt the beginning of the 1960s, when the French pioneers of cinéma vérité set out to achieve a new realism, and when direct cinema in Québec began to vie for notice,...

Bridges of Time

2018

7.0 MovieEvery morning Krilli prepares the myriad ingredients required to make the lobster soup at the Bryggjan café, a tiny eatery in Iceland’s dullest town. His wife helps...

Lobster Soup

2020

9.0 MovieAlbertas, a lift-operator, sits all day waiting for someone to ring the elevator. His wait transcends his sense of community and symbolism, a sign that someone needs...

The Gospel According to Lift-Man Albertas

2003

8.0 MovieThe film is like an essay. During spring, the village is soaked in flood. It’s Easter Eve. The villagers are gathering for a strange old ritual in order to watch over...

From Unfinished Tales of Jerusalem

1996

6.0 MovieDomingo Domingo, a witty Valencian orange farmer, tries to stand up to the multinational companies that oppress the humble workers of the land.

Domingo Domingo

2023

7.0 MovieEver wondered where the clothes at your local second-hand shop came from? A tangled net of murky charity clothes business is spreading out across the entire UK. From...

Second Hand

2019

7.0 MovieAt the foot of Europe’s largest glacier, seven Icelandic siblings once lived in deliberate isolation, dedicating their lives to observing ice and nature long before...

La Pietà

2026

MovieA manifesto for the post-Soviet generation of Lithuanian filmmakers who rejected straightforward declarativity and immersed themselves into the silent observation of...

Ten Minutes Before the Flight of Icarus

1990

MovieLike everything rotates around: vodkas searching, vituperation, floating barge, wind gusts. It seems the people, and the nature feel approaching farewell, and...

The First Farewell to Paradise

1998

Movie“The Mammoth Hunt” is a story about a film reel that for many years has been thought to be lost. On the reel, under conspiracy conditions, an abolished anti-Soviet...

The Mammoth Hunt

2024

MovieThe first part of the film – Island of Crete – was created in 2007, as an independent work. The second part – “Confession" – is like an other half of the Island of...

The Confession

2009

MovieOn May 1, 2004, about half a dozen children were born in Lithuania. Their arrival in this world coincided with the accession of Lithuania to the European Union. At...

Generation.EU

2024

MovieTwo artists, whose work was constrained during the Soviet era, fled to New York. There, they met with their guru Jonas Mekas, the creator of avant-garde filmmaking....

Back from New York

2021

MovieA cinematic journey into one of the greatest European noble families, the Radziwiłłs. Even the King would stand up when Radziwiłł the Black entered the room. Members...

Radviliada

2014

MovieArūnas Matelis' graduation film tells the story of a Lithuanian village in Belarus – Pelesa and this village's luminary Marija Kruopienė.

Giants of Pelesa