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International theater festival Sirenos kicks off in Vilnius
Sirenos (Sirens), an international theater festival, is kicking off in Vilnius on Thursday with a showcase of Lithuanian productions. […]
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Lithuania’s Venice Biennale pavilion will turn into singing beach
Lithuania’s pavilion at the 58th Venice Biennale next year will become a singing beach for a few months. […]
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Lithuanian cultural workers to stage protest to demand higher salaries
Creative and cultural workers will next week stage a protest outside the government building in Vilnius to press their demands for a larger increase in salaries. […]
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Lithuanian Film Summer Survivors by Marija Kavtaradzė to World Premiere at Toronto Film Festival
For the second year in a row Lithuania has been included in the Toronto International Film Festival – one of the key events of the industry across the globe. The 43rd edition of the film festival will run for eleven days and include the world premiere of Marija Kavtaradzė’s debut feature Summer Survivors (orig. “Išgyventi vasarą”), which is taking place today, September 7. Authors of the film will hold a meeting with the audience after the screening. The national film industry will be represented at the EUROPE! Umbrella of the TIFF Industry Centre by the Lithuanian Film Centre as the official member of the European Film Promotion (EFP), a press release from the Lithuanian Film Centre states. […]
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New Torah scroll to be written at Vilnius’ Choral Synagogue
A ceremony of starting the writing of a new Torah scroll will be held at the Choral Synagogue of Vilnius on Tuesday. […]
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Lithuania picks Matelis’ ‘Wonderful Losers. A Different World’ for Oscar entry
Lithuania has selected “Wonderful Losers. A Different World”, a documentary directed by Arūnas Matelis, as its entry for an Academy Awards nomination in the best foreign-language film category. […]
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Lithuanian Film and talent at this year’s Locarno IFF
The 71st Locarno International Film Festival, which kicks off today, is exceptionally rich in Lithuanian accents. Three Lithuanian films or co-productions have been selected to participate in the festival’s programmes and will have their world premieres in Locarno, to be presented by their filmmakers. In addition to film screenings, three promising Lithuanian producers will represent their country at the festival’s industry days. […]
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Vilnius, Riga and Tallinn to host Baltic Film Days
The three Baltic capitals will host the Baltic Film Days this week, organized for a second time. […]
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Telia will launch exclusive HBO® content in Lithuania on August 21
From August 21 all subscribers of Telia Smart TV will be able to watch over a hundred prominent, award-winning and critically acclaimed films and series from the American premium pay TV network HBO. New content will automatically be added to the service when it premieres, a press release from Telia states. […]
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Premises on Great Synagogue grounds in Vilnius let to 10 tenants
The City of Vilnius has rented special premises at the site of the complex of the Great Synagogue on the Vokiečių Street to host creative tenants, who will, in their turn, organise various artistic workshops, exhibitions, educational, innovative and artistic projects, teach crafts, there will be educational theatre and visual arts activities. All this will be happening in a 1000 square meters building which used to operate as a primary school and it is atop the former treasured heritage – the Great Synagogue – the Jewish Cultural and Education Centre (13A, Vokiečių Street). […]
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Lithuanian cinema and documentary thrive in first half of 2018
Over the first six months of this year, national cinema in Lithuania has seen a significant rise in attendance, as evidenced by box office returns: ticket sales of Lithuanian films have almost reached 60% of last year’s total (€2.6 million, compared to €4.5 million in 2017), attracting 500,000 viewers (compared to 860,000 for the whole 2017). National cinema has also increased its share in theatre programming to unprecedented 28% of the market, a significant rise from 22% last year, a press release from the Lithuanian Film Centre states. […]
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Lithuania introduces ‘cultural passport’ for schoolchildren
Lithuania is set to launch on September 1 a state-funded program for schoolchildren aimed at improving their access to cultural and educational projects and events. […]
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Baltics set up joint cultural foundation
The culture ministers of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia on Sunday signed in Riga an agreement on the establishment of a Baltic cultural foundation. […]
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Dutch musical touch to a Lithuanian National Holiday
Right upon the heels of the visit by the Dutch King to Lithuania last month, a much larger contingent is making a musical call on Vilnius. The 52 members of the Netherlands Royal Military Orchestra ‘Johan Willem Friso’ are playing a number of concerts in the Capital. They are also a reminder that there is also a large Dutch presence in Rukla as part of the NATO presence in Lithuania. […]
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Lithuania mulls de Beauvoir commemoration near Sartre sculpture in Nida
The Lithuanian coastal resort of Neringa’s recent decision to unveil a sculpture in Nida to commemorate French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre’s visit to the Curonian Spit resort in 1965 has sparked controversy as critics say his feminist companion Simone de Beauvoir was left out. […]
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A retrospective of Baltic documentaries and premieres of latest Lithuanian productions at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival
The name of Lithuania will be reiterated louder than ever at this year’s Karlovy Vary International Film Festival which opens today. After a 15-year hiatus the audiences will have an opportunity to see a retrospective of classics from the Baltic countries titled “Reflections of Time: Baltic Poetic Documentary”. World premieres of two renowned Lithuanian filmmakers will take place at the festival with both films participating in the competition programmes. Lithuanians will also actively take part in industry events, a press release from the Lithuanian Film Centre states. […]
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Lithuanian Song Festival starts in Vilnius
The Lithuanian Song Festival started in Vilnius on Sunday, dedicated to the 100th anniversary of Lithuania’s independence. […]
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Two exhibitions, opera to mark completion of Lithuania’s Palace of Grand Dukes
Lithuania’s national museum, the Palace of the Grand Dukes of Lithuania, is inviting guests to mark the completion of its construction on Jul. 6, with two exceptional exhibitions and an opera planned. […]
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Song festival: thousand of songs and participant elder than independent Lithuania
A thousand of songs will be performed during the Lithuanian Song Festival, starting this week, and some of them will be performed by a Lithuanian-Australian who is elder than an independent Lithuania. […]
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Sculpture to French philosopher Sartre to be unveiled in Lithuanian resort of Nida
A sculpture will be unveiled in Nida on Thursday to commemorated French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre’s visit to the Lithuanian Curonian Spit resort in 1965. […]