10th edition | 2024 | Programmes

The festival schedule and programmes of the 10th edition


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This year we have generally moved away from the conventional sections of the programmes. Instead of a fiction, animation, video art programme, we tried to play on the field of metacinema and create new narratives through the existing ones. For instance, “Unfiltered Distopias” programme has been maturing for many years. It so happened that our festival found itself at the crossroads of two distopias, two systems, different spectacles. In either of them we exist at the same time and simultaneously there is no place for us there. This programme of films is built as a transition from one supposedly absolute socio-political system to another. The finale is left open. In the words of either Fredric Jameson or Slavoj Žižek: “It is easier to imagine an end to the world than an end to capitalism…”

The camera and human gaze interact in a divine comedy of total voyeurism and control. The Schrodinger’s Cat includes some of the best fiction, experimental films and video art of this year. The programme is a kind of metafilm. Each of the five short films in the programme is a sequential piece through which a new narrative unfolds.

The widespread application of neural network capabilities in the field of visual imagery has generated heated social, ethical, and legal debates. Undoubtedly, artificial intelligence will influence the history of visual contemporary art and  independent cinema. It has already happened. We will illustrate it vividly in Art & Neuro-Dreams.

The next collection is perhaps one of the most philosophical (ontological) selections of films in this year’s festival. Shakespeare’s “to be” pervades every film in the meta-narrative Words, Silence, and Sand. The familiar world is destroyed. Words are lost. The silence of the universe becomes more eloquent than words. Montage operates on purpose and genuineness.

In addition, we have prepared a number of national collections, a section on gender issues, and the special programmes that you can expierence below.


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BERLIN

HELSINKI

ZK/U Center for Art and Urbanistics

Kitchen Lab Tarvo

March 21
March 22
April 7
Easy Love & Fun 7pm Art & Neuro-Dreams 7 pm Mars and Venus Tango 3 pm
Unfiltered Dystopias 8.25pm
Schrodinger’s cat 9.55pm

VILNIUS

CreateCulture Space

Skalvija Cinema Center

April 24
April 25
April 26
Lithuanian 6.30pm A Yellow Sparrow Sat on a Branch 7 pm Silent Spiral 7 pm
Belarusian 8 pm

FILM PROGRAMMES

A Head In The Clouds

The programme consists of documentaries about very different stories of characters that people may sometimes call "out of this world" ...
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A Yellow Sparrow Sat on a Branch …

19:00 April 25 | CreateCulture Space (Karmelitu g. 5, Vilnius). Free donation. Registration form. The title of the film compilation ...
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Art & Neuro-Dreams

The widespread application of neural network capabilities in the field of visual imagery has generated heated social, ethical, and legal ...
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Belarusian Films

The collection includes the best festival films of Belarusian authors for the years 2023-24. The total length is 91 min ...
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Easy Love & Fun …

Programme content is right there in the name. Except for postmodern and contemporary art, of course. The total length is ...
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Lithuanian Films

A section of the best films by Lithuanian directors of the festival. The total length is 52 minutes. 18:30 April ...
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Mars and Venus Tango

The gender section of the films deals with issues of the masculine and feminine in cinema. The total length is ...
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Puppets’ Apocalypse

This best short film collection is a metafilm-thriller whose drama unfolds between the fear of the alien and the desire ...
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Schrodinger’s Cat

The camera and human gaze interact in a divine comedy of total voyeurism and control. The programme includes some of ...
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Silent Spiral

People's impulse to avoid isolation and become part of something bigger through non-verbal social interaction fits well with the genre ...
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Unfiltered Distopias

The Distopia programme has been maturing for many years. It so happened that our festival found itself at the crossroads ...
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Words, Silence, And Sand

This is perhaps one of the most philosophical (ontological) selections of films in this year's festival. Shakespeare's "to be" pervades ...
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