Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre

A memory capsule of the Academy as it is to us - skipping lectures, partying and discovering deep connections with fellow students.

Two strangers accidentally meet on a train and immediately find it hard to communicate. Too Young to Drive is a story about the hardship of finding ways to each other. Every year over ten thousand divorces are registered in Lithuania. At times when various means of communication are available to us, we are struggling to find ways and time to talk to a person close to us. Two people. One train. Different directions.

Two girls are trying to get drugs in late-hour Vilnius while their adventures open up woeful city's nightlife, full of apathy and failed communication.

Max goes on a date with another guy, Tadas, whom he met online. Max feels uncomfortable and timid so Tadas decides to act on his own initiative. He tries to get to know Max as they embark on a night ride around the city but Max is evasive to talk about himself. Max feels torn between his feelings and Tadas' pressure. Eventually he breaks down and reveals his true identity.

Ieva is a teenager who’s facing the day of her grandmother‘s funeral. All Ieva wants is to say goodbye to her grandmother in her own way, but this goal is interfered with by the domestic problems of such processions and the growing distance between Ieva and her mother.

A talkative taxi driver roams the nightly streets. An apathetic girl enters his car. The two don't seem to connect, until she asks to make a stop with intent to cause harm upon someone. Does their shared trip even have a destination?

Two brothers work in the forest. By accident tree falls on one of them and when painful secret is revealed brotherly love starts hanging by a thread.

Divorced couple Bernardas and Silvia live together, avoiding interaction through a strict schedule. Unexpectedly, Lukas arrives with a cryptic message for Silvia. As they navigate this twist, Bernardas recalls how they met through a similar ad. Tensions rise, love rekindles, and desires resurface. Closer explores love's complexities, unexpected encounters, and self-discovery in a poignant and emotionally charged tale of second chances.

It is late at night in the city. A middle-aged woman hears garage doors opening. A young girl Saulė returns to her mother’s house frightened. The mother sees her daughter standing soaked from the rain, so she tries to find out why she suddenly came back. After a few unsuccessful mother’s attempts to start a conversation, the daughter admits that her ex-boyfriend is stalking her. Watching her being upset the mother gets the idea to take revenge on the boyfriend.

Left homeless after a fight with her sister Yana spends 24 hours desperately looking for a place to stay.

Middle-aged Arūnas is looking for a way to escape the pain of his wife's betrayal, while 17-year-old Ilona is looking for a substitute for the father she never had. Two strangers meet in the night to lean on each other's pain.

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.

If you had the chance to make a film, what would it be? "The Egg" is a documentary about people who have ideas for films - the kind of films they want to make. The characters themselves present their ideas, and some of the stories they tell are immediately brought to life on screen.

German artist Adolf Menzel's unfinished painting Kircheninneres comes to life in a vision of a post-apocalyptic world where modern society is left in ruins and the only way to survive is to dominate. The plot of the film focuses on two gangs of young men fighting over a church that has been transformed into a shelter. The protagonist, a member of one of the gangs, tries to navigate between the desire to survive and his humanity. He seeks to protect the one he loves, he does not want to betray his friends, and therefore he does not withdraw from the fight. When the gangs clash in a brutal battle, the wounded hero is rescued by his beloved at the risk of his own life. The hero's friends win the battle, but instead of joyful bells, the thunder of fighter jets rings out, blending in with the brushstrokes of the unfinished painting. The lovers fail to protect each other from their inevitable fate.

It's a sad comedy about twenty something's generation and the question 'if somewhere is better?'

Auksė and her father Saulius arrive at her late grandfather’s house, where Auksė learns that Saulius intends to sell the property. Saulius considers things left at home as junk that needs to be thrown away, while Auksė sees them as memories that shape her entirely different view of the past. Guided by her new-found perspective, Auksė tries to convince her father to reconsider the sale. But the cold relationship between them and the ongoing silent mourning lead to a confrontation where neither side is completely right.

It's the end of the 90s, a 16-year-old Inga living in a small village is prepared to drop everything and get out. The teenager is trying to escape her own youth as fast as possible, although her friends are trying to warn her of the dangers of her journey.

A mute guy struggles to fit in at a construction site. Tensions rise among the workers when a colleague gets badly injured.

Vaiva dreams of living in Spain with her Spanish boyfriend. Before leaving for the foreign country, she needs to save up some money for her new start and begins working as a nurse for a bedridden man in a remote village of Lithuania. Time passes by slowly here, and the Spanish lover doesn’t pick up the phone for days.

Milda is planning to spend a night with her friends, but the news of her grampa's death slowly sets in.