Lithuanian cultural events - 'Place of Action: Lithuania'
Published: 13 January 2012
A series of Lithuanian cultural events and a joint academic-practitioner Round Table forum for discussion on the Kaliningrad Region after EU enlargement. 22 - 24 October 2007
In October 2007 the University of Glasgow will host a series of Lithuanian cultural events and a joint academic-practitioner Round Table forum for discussion on the Kaliningrad Region after EU enlargement.
Events include:
• Film Series: 22, 23 and 24 October, Gilmorehill Cinema, University of Glasgow, from 18.15;
• Introduction by Film Director, Arunas Matelis: 23 October, Gilmorehill Cinema, University of Glasgow, from 17.00;
• Round Table: 23 October, Randolph Hall, University of Glasgow, from 10.30-15.30;
Event: 'Place of Action: Lithuania'
In October 2007 CRCEES will host at the University of Glasgow a series of Lithuanian cultural events and a joint academic-practitioner Round Table on the Kaliningrad Region after EU enlargement.
Events to take place include a series of films, a public lecture and a round table discussion. A priliminary calendar of events follows (please check regularly for updates).
Date Time Activity
Mon 22 Oct 18.15hrs Film: You am I (2006)
Tue 23 Oct 11.00-15.00hrs Round table discussion
17.00hrs Introduction by Film Director, Arunas Matelis
18.15hrs Film: Before Flying back to Earth (2005)
19.00hrs Film: Grandpa and Grandma (2007)
Wed 24 Oct 18.15hrs Film: The Eternal Light (1987)
Monday 22 October:
Lithuanian Film:
You am I (2006)
Source: www.lfc.lt
Film: You am I (Kristijonas Vildziunas 2006, 90 min)
Venue: Gilmorehill G12 | Tickets Free
A contemporary tale about an architect-dreamer building a futuristic house in a tree, within a gloomy forest. His determination to create a new model of life has to go through various trials. Courage, sincerity and simplicity 'half the kingdom and the princess's heart' like in fairytales; in other words: maturity and love. Happiness is not lost while the dream about it is alive.
English/Lithuanian
Officially selected by the Directors programme of the Cannes Festival. For more information, visit the Lithuanian film center.
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Tuesday 23 October:
Round table discussion:
The joint academic-practitioner Round Table forum for discussion on the Kaliningrad Region after EU enlargement, will take between 10.30-15.30.
Visit for more information including details of the venue and programme.
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Lithuanian Film double-bill:
Before Flying back to Earth (2005) Source: www.lfc.lt
Film: Before Flying back to Earth (Arunas Matelis 2005, 52 min)
Venue: Gilmorehill G12 | Tickets Free
This film has won numerous awards worldwide, including the "Golden Dove" for best long documentary at the 48th Leipzig Documentary Festival and the Directors Guild of America Award for Best Documentary 2006.
The most famous Lithuanian documentary film, Before Flying Back to Earth was recently ranked first in the list of the top 50 documentaries of all time, as published on Internet website List of the Best, beating Bob Dylan - No Direction Home by Martin Scorcese into second place. In Lithuanian with English Subtitles.
Director Arunas Matelis will give a talk prior to the screening, starting at 17.00 in Room 408, Gilmorehill Centre, University of Glasgow.
For more information, visit the Lithuanian film center.
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Film: Grandpa and grandma (Giedre Beinoriute 2007, 28 min)
Grandpa and grandma (2007) Source: www.lfc.lt
Venue: Gilmorehill G12 | Tickets Free
Based on the true life story of the director's grandparents, who were exiled to Siberia by the Soviets in 1948.
The visual basics of the film consists if extant family photographs together with national archive material and animation inserts. It's an intimate archetypical fairtale-like film about the strength if human mind.
For more information, visit the Lithuanian film center.
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Wednesday 24 October:
Lithuanian Film:
Film: The Eternal Light (Algimantas Puipa 1987, 89 min)
Venue: Gilmorehill G12 | Tickets Free
In one of the best examples of Lithuanian poetic cinema, we find ourselves drawn again into rural Lithuania during the 1940s. Even though the film only briefly refers to the war, all the burden of this historical past remains and weighs heavily on the shoulders of the characters and defines the bitterness of the film's atmosphere.
Four country people are experiencing the dramas of their lives that subtly reveal the destiny of an entire post war country.
Almost all of the Eternal Light is stylized as old, maybe even amateur photographs, that usually evoke nostalgic sorrow. But the director's gaze on the landscape, faces and destinies is that of a silent love.
22-24 October, 2007
Gilmorehill Centre and Randolph Hall, University of Glasgow.
First published: 13 January 2012