MURMURING HEARTS/ MURMANČIOS ŠIRDYS (2024)
Director

Documentary, 81 min., Lithuania, France, Norway 2024
At a desolate farm in the snowy countryside, a group of troubled men, including recovering addicts and former prisoners, find their last chance of redemption. Led by Žanas, a former addict who turned his life around through nature and Catholicism, the men struggle to overcome their past and avoid relapse. Unexpectedly, a 14-year-old boy named Matas joins the farm, seeking solace from his own childhood trauma.
FESTIVALS & AWARDS:
Tallinn Black Nights 2024 - Doc@PÖFF international competition, Best Cinematography award.
Fipadoc 2025 - Euroepan Stories competition, Young Europeans award 2025.
Vilnius Film Festival / Kino Pavasaris 2025 - National premiere.
PITCHINGS & TRAININGS
Last Stop Trieste, 2024, Italy.
Berlinale Talents, 2023, Germany.
Baltic Sea Docs 2022, Latvia.
Nipkow Programm 2022, Germany.
Visions du Reel 2022, Switzerland.
Esodoc (European Social Documentary) - 2021 edition.





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EL PADRE MEDICO (2019)
Director

Documentary, 102 min., Lithuania - Brazil.
A Lithuanian doctor, priest and a war refugee Alexander Ferdinand Bendoraitis (1919-1998) resettles to Amazonian jungle in 1960's and becomes a local hero: establishes first jungle radio, starts the pacification of local indigenous tribes and builds the most modern hospital in the Amazonia. However, as he gets involved in a brutal crime, countless fake narratives that he had created around himself begin to resurface.
FESTIVALS AND AWARDS:
Camden IFF 2019 - Cinematic Vision competition, World premiere, USA.
Inconvenient Films 2019 - National premiere, Lithuania.
Baltic Wave, 2020, Lithuania.
Lithuanian Documentary Film Festival in Chicago, 2020, USA.
Lithuanian National Film Awards ‘Silver Crane’ 2020 - nominated for best documentary, cinematography and editing.
REVIEWS:
ŽURNALAS KINAS
LRT
15MIN





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BEFORE THEY MEET / PASIENIO PAUKŠČIAI (2021)
Director

Documentary, 51 min., Belgium, Lithuania, Croatia, Norway.
On each side of the border between Lithuania and the Russian exclave Kaliningrad, there is an ornithologic station, researching the migration of millions of birds crossing this border region. Today both ornithologic stations make a first attempt to cross borders through a common bird research project. But will they be 2 birds of a feather?
FESTIVALS & AWARDS:
Fipadoc 2022 - Voices of Europe competition, International premiere, France.
Inconvenient Films 2021 - Main competition, National premiere, Lithuania.
Bergamo Film Meeting 2022 - close up competition, first special mention, Italy.
Pärnu Film Festival 2022, Estonia.
Docpoint 2023 Helsinki, Finland.
Filmkunstfest MV 2022, Schwerin, Germany.
BROADCASTED:
VRT Canvas (BE), LRT Plius (LT), Current Time, Al Jazeera (QA).
REVIEWS:
CINEUROPA





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A LETTER TO UKRAINE / LAIŠKAS UKRAINAI (2023)
Director / Producer

Collective documentary, 98 min., Lithuania.
Russian military invasion in February 2022 irreversibly changed lives of all Ukrainians and interrupted peace in Europe. Those who directly experience the war have a clear choice: to fight or to escape. The further from the front lines, the more questions emerge: to keep interest or to ignore, to welcome or to turn away, to donate or to go fight? Lithuanian film community got together for a voluntary project with the aim to document what was happening during this complicated time in their country.
FESTIVALS & AWARDS:
Vilnius International Film Festival / Kino Pavasaris 2023 - closing film, Lithuania.
REVIEWS:
For me, this is the best Lithuanian film of this year's festival - subtle, showing people's solidarity, avoiding primitive slogans or self-promotional media characters. Instead it is offers to see those who sincerely help others and contribute to Ukraine's victory.





TRAILER (LT):
SEARCHING FOR THE VILNA GAON / VILNIAUS GAONO BEIEŠKANT (2020)
Director
Documentary short 7 min., Lithuania.
A documentary short on facts, myths, and various identities of Elijah ben Solomon Zalman (1720-1792) - one of the most famous Talmudists of the modern times. What in fact are we searching for when we embark on the quest to find the genius of the Vilna Gaon?
Jerusalem Jewish Film Festival 2020, Israel
Miami Jewish Film Festival 2020, USA
Gershman Phildaelphia Jewish Film Festival, 2021, USA


