Gintautė Rusteikaitė

A series of vignettes situated in an apartment in Vilnius conceive of the complexities of desire and love as seen through the fleeting experiences of five Airbnb guests, each in differing states of romantic entanglement and crisis.

A thirteen-year-old boy Marius is an outcast who often feels invisible to the world around him. One day, he becomes intrigued by a mysterious incident at school, where his biology teacher is injured with a snowball thrown by an unknown classmate.

Watchmaker stumbles into a mysterious cinema and is enraptured by the sight of movie star Lisa sleeping on the screen. His life changes. A girl he meets in the cinema begins leading him through the strange world of cinematic dreams.

With gentle irony, “Cinephilia” unmasks the illusion of film. Characters migrate through the worlds of reality and fantasy, in circumstances that paradoxically have no questions or answers. The two moons of Lars von Trier shine in the night sky, entrancing the main heroes, Roland and Isabel. Roland rents himself a room where he winds up in situations reminiscent of the plots found in Franz Kafka’s “The Trial” or Roman Polański’s “The Tenant”. A guy visits Roland, claiming that they known each other, and offers him a lot of money to film his suicide. There begins a kaleidoscopic sequence of events and random acquaintances. They make the characters wander through the worlds of reality and fantasy, sometimes both at the same time. A dark comedy that tells nine related stories in which the fates of the characters intertwine.

Woman searches for her torn-off fingernail - the only thing that could prove that what her body remembers is not just a nightmare.

Sofija returns to her childhood home where she seeks comfort in a heartfelt teenage memory as Mykolas prepares to leave. In Night Vilnius, amidst unexpected twists, she discovers the courage to say goodbye and move forward, fueled by cherished memories and enduring friendship.

Composed and direct, three young people talk about the tumult of voices that frequently floods their heads: about the times when the inner whispers drove them to lose control—and the inexplicable moments when the voices actually saved their lives.

An upper-middle class girl dreams of living like those “common people”, until her romantic fantasy soon turns into a real-life heist with a local gang of bike thieves.

Sofija, longing for connection, meets Adomas during a night out in Vilnius. As they walk home together, both quietly lost in their own worlds, they search for closeness without saying too much. During the journey, the portrait of a young, carefree person unfolds.