Film

Special focus will be given to Lithuania at the biggest Swiss documentary film festival Visions du Réel on April 15–23.

A new War and Peace tourist trail will be launched in Vilnius today taking tourists on a tour of where the BBC's War and Peace series was filmed in Lithuania’s capital.

Filming for the new US TV film The Cobbler started in Vilnius this week. The film is based on a short story by Tolstoy and stars Hollywood legend John Rhys-Davies. “We all quickly started falling in love with Lithuania,” said producer and co-writer of The Cobbler, Russ Kendall.

A screening of The Midwife at the Embassy of Finland in Vilnius this past Friday saw members of the Finnish community in Lithuania come together. The film, that was mostly shot in Lithuania, is set in Finland during the Lapland war with the Nazi’s and was the first to receive a tax credit here.

Emmanuel Lubezki, the director of Lithuanian descent last night won a an Oscar for best cinematography for “The Revenant”.

Another Tolstoy classic, Martin the Cobbler, is being filmed on location in Lithuania following the success of the BBC’s epic production of War and Peace in Lithuania.

Lithuania has been named as one of the top five locations for filming of Hollywood blockbusters in Europe by the US film industry bible, the Hollywood Reporter.

Naujienų portalas Hollywoodreporter.com kviečia kino kūrėjus savo juostas filmuoti Lietuvoje. Lietuva paminėta tarp penkių Rytų Europos šalių, kuriose teikiamos lengvatos filmų kūrėjams. Prie to labai ženkliai prisidėjo BBC Vilniuje filmuotos „Karas ir taika“ serijos.

Emmanuel Lubezki, the director of Lithuanian descent who has already won consecutive Academy Awards for Best Cinematography for his work on the films Gravity and Birdman, last night won a BAFTA for best cinematography for The Revenant.

A Lithuanian documentary about a mysterious photographer was screened at Gothenburg International Film Festival in Sweden.

Valstybinė lietuvių kalbos komisija dažnai sulaukia skambučių ir žiūrovų skundų dėl blogai iš originalo kalbos išverstų arba žargoniškų filmų pavadinimų. Kartais pavadinimai išverčiami pažodžiui, kartais – sugalvojamas naujas pavadinimas, kuris kino mėgėjams neretai rėžia ausį. DELFI pasidomėjo, kai...

Tom Harper, director of the BBC's latest adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's epic War & Peace, returns to Vilnius, the backdrop of many of the series' scenes, for the first screening in Lithuania. David van Roon of the Lithuania Tribune speaks with Harper about Lithuania’s most beautiful film locations, loc...

Praėjusį savaitgalį televizijos filmo „Karas ir taika“ režisierius Tomas Harperis atvyko į Vilnių, kur vyko pirmoji peržiūra. Didžioji dalis naujosios BBC dramos filmavimų vyko būtent čia, Lietuvoje. Davidas van Roonas iš „The Lithuania Tribune“ pasikalbėjo su T. Harperiu apie gražiąsias serialo fil...

Director‘s Evgeny Afineevsky film about the conflict in Ukraine, Winter on Fire: Ukraine's Fight for Freedom, which includes much of DELFI photographer‘s Artūras Morozovas footage and photos, was nominated in the best documentary film category in the upcoming Academy Awards.

The filming of War and Peace is already generating huge interest in visitor trips to Lithuania, with leading newspapers in the UK running features on how tourists can come to experience some of the locations from the blockbuster series.

After sold-out premières in Vilnius, Lithuania, and New York, new documentary film “Land of Songs” will have its West Coast Première on the closing night of Stanford University's 2015 Baltic Film Series.

Antradienį Vilniuje pristatytas 9-asis tarptautinis moterų kino festivalis „Šeršėliafam“. Gruodžio 3 d. startuosiančio festivalio programoje - 10 kruopščiai atrinktų filmų, diskusijos, seminarai ir įkvepiančios moterų sėkmės istorijos.

For the thirteenth time, International Animated Film Festival Tindirindis, which will take place on November 26-29, invites viewers to the halls of Vilnius cinemas where the best non-commercial animated films from all over the world will be shown.

Penktadienio vakarą Stokholmo filmų festivalyje garsiai skambėjo lietuviška pavardė. Alantės Kavaitės juostos „Sangailės vasara“ žvaigždė Julija Steponaitytė išrinkta geriausia aktore.

The cast of the latest instalment of the James Bond franchise, 007 Spectre, includes a Lithuanian name.