As always at BLON, we are announcing a competition programme of Lithuanian animated films! From the most memorable works by students to virtuoso short films, the entries will be judged by a panel of international experts, and audiences will be able to discover for themselves the diversity of Lithuanian animation!
Director(s): Nathan Jurevičius
Year of release: 2015
Length: 7 min
Countries: Lithuania, Canada, Australia
Kalba: English with Lithuanian subtitles
For generations the Face Changers have made the clay tokens that alter the winds and faces of their kin. This month the youngest is tasked to take the ten thousand footsteps to the top of the east mountain and engulf the town in the winds of change.
Director(s): Katerina Lavrionova
Year of release: 2016
Length: 1:40 min
Countries: UK, Lithuania
Language: English with Lithuanian subtitles
Meet Hopscotch! The happy horse – she’s on the mission to cheer up the world!
Director(s): Reda Tomingas
Year of release: 2013
Length: 5:22 min
Country: Lithuania
Language: no dialogue
A fox wishes to cut herself off from the rest of the world. In the isolation, she’s tortured by a presence. In the end the fox must decide whether to lose herself to her solipsistic madness or accept the path to reconciliation.
Director(s): Antanas Skučas
Year of release: 2016
Length: 1:40 min
Country: Lithuania
Language: no dialogue
According to String Theory, the universe is a single conscious hologram – is everything in our life just an illusion?
Director(s): Urtė Oettinger, Johan Oettinger
Year of release: 2015
Length: 7 min
Country: Lithuania
Language: no dialogue
The storm is coming. The Eagle is captured by the spirit of the doom. A bullet is fired to the eagle’s fatal battle
Director(s): Tomas Mitkus
Year of release: 2015
Length: 10:21 min
Country: Lithuania
Language: Lithuanian with English subtitles
This steampunk short film is the adaptation of award winning historical fiction book „Hour of the Wolf“ by Andrius Tapinas.
Director(s): Katerina Lavrionova
Year of release: 2016
Length: 4:04 min
Countries: UK, Lithuania
Language: English with Lithuanian subtitles
Meet Hopscotch! The happy horse – she’s on the mission to cheer up the world!
Director(s): Giedrė Narušytė Boots
Year of release: 2016
Length: 4:38 min
Countries: Belgium, Lithuania
Language: no dialogue
Animation film “Cold Springs” is a nostalgic interpretation of “Lithuanian Stories” (Litauische Geschichten, 1917) by Hermann Sudermann.
Director(s): Martynas Aužbikavičius
Year of release: 2016
Length: 2 min
Country: Lithuania
Language: no dialogue
Here is the basket and here are the warm wellies, but where are all the mushrooms? What is the secret of this dark woods, invisible to the Mushroom Hunter?
Director(s): Rūta Juškauskaitė, Justina Deinytė
Year of release: 2016
Length: 3:59 min
Country: Lithuania
Language: Music video in English with no subtitles
A story about social networks and their impact on human lives. The protagonist of the story is hopelessly lost in social networks where he believes he could find his “soul mate”.