Directing
Valdemaras Isoda got hooked on cinema since five. This addiction never went away. He is not a film director, he is not a screenwriter, nor a critic. He is a man who had been too good for Hollywood.
Soviet Lithuania, 1975. Fishermen kiss their wives goodbye. They are going off to sea to catch fish on the faraway Atlantic coasts of Africa. The boat is going to be their home for the next five months.
In the spring of 1989, the planting of the oak tree grove of Lithuanian national revival was started in the birthplace of Jonas Basanavičius in the village of Ožkabaliai. Thousands of people from all over Lithuania came to the planting, carrying seedlings and Lithuania's tricolours.
