Sharunas Bartas
Date of Birth: 16 Aug 1964
Country: Lithuania
Biography: Šarūnas Bartas (born 16 August 1964) is a Lithuanian film director. One of the most prominent Lithuanian film directors internationally from the late 20th century. His 2015 film Peace to Us in Our Dreams was screened in the Directors' Fortnight section at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival. His film In the Dusk was part of the official selection of the 2020 Cannes Film Festival.
Total Credits at Criticker: 5 (Actor), 12 (Director), 10 (Writer)
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In Kaliningrad two Lithuanian boys meet two Russian girls. They have difficulties in finding places where they can sleep together. But this is the only problem they do solve. All four justly feel miserable because their lives are meaningless. (IMDB)
The Corridor has no narrative structure or dialog. Instead Bartas uses stark black/white pictures - often long close-ups of silent faces - to capture Lithuania after the end of the Soviet Union.
In Memory of the Day Passed By (1990) - Short Film
A semi-documentary portrait of war-ravaged Vilnius.
Gena is an international drug dealer. His enemies are numerous but not easy to recognize. Although there is only a small chance that Gena will be able to trade in his nomadic existence between Asia and Europe for a "normal life", he takes the plunge anyway. A frantic chase across Europe thus ensues. Heading west, presumably towards the sun. (Berlinale)
After a failed drug trafficking operation two men and a girl are stranded on a coast beside a desert.
A contemplative ode to the home. The home as a centre of everyday routine and relationships. The home with all it's comings and goings. The home as a centre of unions and separations.The home as a centre of life that shelters its inhabitants from a wedding, a funeral, fireworks... Each character who lives, passes, enters or leaves the home, each room plays it's own role. (festival-cannes.com)
Takes place in the Crimea, the southern part of the former Soviet Union. The characters are all people hostile to society; they've got their own reasons for being so, their own lack of understanding. This hostility obliges them to flee, to run from the law, from themselves. During this voyage from which there is no return, feelings follow their own path, oscillating from joy to despair, from hate to love. (en.unifrance.org)
"Humans always doubt," says a father to his daughter. "Just imagine if suddenly everything (were) clear. What would you do?" What indeed? Such questions serve as a substitute for drama in Sharunas Bartas' "Peace to Us in Our Dreams," an old-school broodfest in which a man, his daughter and his violinist companion openly ponder Big Themes during a country getaway. (imdb)
The young Lithuanian Rokas, with his girlfriend Inga, drives a humanitarian aid truck to Donbass region of Ukraine where, amid the violence and death of the War in Donbass, they meet different war reporters. (wikipedia)
Lithuania, 1948. War is over, but the country is left in ruins. 19-year-old Untė is a member of the Partisan movement resisting Soviet occupation. They do not fight on equal terms, but this desperate struggle will determine the future of the whole population. At the age of discovery of life, Untė discovers violence and treachery.
Upon hearing her beloved grandmother is dying, a young woman returns to rural Lithuania, where she must confront a past she's tried to forget.