Woody Allen and the other films will be telling stories in Kaunas

Yesterday was the start of the Kaunas International Film Festival (KIFF), which would present Woody Allen's new film Vicki, Christina, Barcelona, with a star-studded cast, to the Lithuanian audience for the first time.

Steve Buscemi’s Interview, with Sienna Miller, and other notable films will also be shown in the ‘Storytelling’ section, which focuses on different narrative forms, scenery and montage films, and fresh story devices. In Vicki, Christina, Barcelona the characters played by Scarlett Johansson, Penelope Cruz and Javier Bardemo in summertime Barcelona experience romantic adventures. In Interview, Sienna Miller portrays herself as a star of the screen. The duet from her and Steve Buscemi involves in hot sexuality psychological game, toward in dark Manhattan loft.

“This year’s festival program intended for a wide audience. I am sure everybody will find films they like,” said KIFF program compiler Tomas Tengmark. The “Stories” program is for those with a closer, more in-depth knowledge of cinema. Flower in the pocket is a perfect example of Malaysian new-wave cinema, while Aslan Gazalov’s film The Swallows Have Returned seems to have been created in the Italian neo-realism style.”

The Storytelling section will presented the best Spanish film Loneliness (directed by Jamie Rosales), which analyzes the contrasts between life in the Spanish province and the shocking terrorist strikes in the megalopolis. Viewers will be cheered up by the feminist punk comedy Itty-Bitty Titty Committee, which was created by an American independent film company (as Interview was). The Turkish film Bliss analyzes complicated religious and social issues, while the German film Comrades in Dreams is about four people who are separated by oceans and thousands of kilometers, but join the belief in film magic.