Welcome, Kaunas is confused and complicated today… Cities are just like people. Some reach for the future, some dwell on the past. Some are desperate climbers, and some are stubborn nonconformists.

Some are plain extroverts marked by megalomania - they were lucky to ride the crest of the wave, to be in the right place at the right time. Now they are trailing the burden of the past, flaunting their castles and boulevards, and monuments of heroes. They have fallen hostage to their own image and are devoured by pesky tourists coming in swarms like locusts...

Convincing stories of films and filmmakers on the last weekend of the festival in Kaunas This weekend, Kaunas city will take the last breath of independent film. Kaunas International Film Festival, which has been organised for three years now, has prepared a bouquet of deep and convincing stories for its last weekend in Kaunas. Famous filmmakers and artists will meet the audience on Saturday as well as on Sunday.

Stasys Eidrigevičius to meet Kaunas Film Festival audience “Wake up, Stasys! Bouzkachi is about to start!“ this is how Bouzkachi: The Chant of Steppes, the film of Kaunas International Film Festival starring the world famous Lithuanian painter Stasys Eidrigevičius, begins. In a few days, cineastes and fans of the Lithuanian artist residing in Poland will have an opportunity to address him directly, because he and the filmmaker Jacques Debs will in person introduce their film Bouzkachi: The Chant of Steppes in Kaunas and Vilnius on October 10-12.

Organisers of Kaunas International Film Festival say: zebra is white Zebra is white; the glass is half full; the egg came first; to be - these are the answers provided by the third Kaunas International Film Festival to the questions that everybody asks sooner or later. The festival's slogan this year is: “Film that answers questions“.

The festival which takes place in Kaunas until October 11 and in Vilnius, October 12-18, encourages the viewers to accept film as the form of art which makes people think, ask questions and look for answers to those questions.

Today, the oldest film theatre in Lithuania opens its door once again Today, October 1, the third Kaunas International Film Festival will revive “Romuva“ - the oldest film theatre in Lithuania, which has recently been opening its door to cineastes only on exceptional occasions.