Argentinean filmmakers visit Lithuania On the 4th of October Kaunas International Film Festival premiered the Argentinian film “Las Acacias“ from the Cannes International Film Festival earlier this year. During the screenings of the film in Kaunas and Vilnius the festival audience had the opportunity to meet both the director Pablo Giorgelli and the editor Maria Astrauskas.

Kaunas International Film Festival presents the school project “Learning from Films“ This year the repertoire of the Kaunas International Film Festival included several films as the part of the new education project “Learning from Films“. During the festival viewers had the possibility the famous film “A Separation“ by Asghar Farhadi from Iran and Swedish directors' Babak Najafi piece about adolescence, isolation and poverty “Sebbe“. As well groups of pupils were offered special sessions of thematically relevant films such as “Hands Up“, “Against All Odds“, “The Graveyard Keeper's Daughter“ and “Dresses, Mothers and Daughters“.

Guests from US, Poland and Luxemburg visited Kaunas This year Kaunas International Film Festival invited the audience to good cinematic screenings of high artistic value including to meetings with film makers from US, Poland and Luxemburg.

In Kaunas, the Polish director Leszek Dawid, presented his film “My name is Ki“. This film reveals a portrait of modern woman and brings society's disfavor to a lonely mother up-to-date.

A flash of New York in Kaunas International Film Festival The audience of Kaunas International Film Festival enjoyed an experimental cinema programme, curated by Jonas Mekas. It was an avant-garde female film programme, specially composed for a festival, a particular program - “Tribute to Adolfas Mekas“ and the latest films of Jonas Mekas were demonstrated in special screenings.

30 September the audience had an opportunity to set eyes on Jonas Mekas film “Was There a War?“ and in the evening -the Lithuanian premiere of Mekas latest film “My Paris Movie“. The filmmaker had filmed footage from visits in Paris over a nineteen years period of time. The playful film shows Jonas Mekas love for Paris.

Kaunas International Film Festival invites to discover the Slovak new wave films Kaunas International Film Festival 5th edition invites the audience to discover one of the most interesting phases of cinematic history and invited to Slovak cinematic retrospective “New Wave“. Festival opening of the retrospective took place on 29 September 7 p.m. in “Zalgiris arena“.

The creative Slovak cinematic golden age came to broader light only at the end of the eighties, when Czechoslovakia struggled free from a socialistic regime. By then, films, made in the sixties, were hid away from viewers and film makers were ignored for a long time. Today, Slovak new wave films are appreciated for aesthetics and ideas and, together with works of Czech filmmakers are considered as “Czechoslovak cinematic wonder“.