The festival opens in Vilnius on ThursdayCinema spring", his repertoire includes more than 100 films and more than 50 events in various locations of major cities.
"The film festival is not only showing films, it is also various meetings, discussions, exhibitions, events, special places where you can visit after the screening to share your impressions", says Konradas Kazlauskas, executive director of the festival.
According to him, events and various activities will complement this year's extensive film repertoire.
"Kino pavasaris" will invite you not only to watch Oscar-nominated and awarded films, evaluated at the world's most important festivals, but also to participate in special festival events.
On Saturday, the festival organizers are inviting parents and their children for the first time to a special celebration for them - the opening of "Kino pavasaris" for children, which will take place on the same day in Vilnius. Beautiful ir Klaipėda. The participants of the opening will be greeted by animators and the characters they create. Two cartoon films, creative tasks, dances, games and feasts await the children.
This year, the organizers will offer special sessions for mothers and fathers raising babies and young children.
The festival also features a duo of artists from Italy, Cecilia Valagussa and Marta del Grandi, and their performance, which tells stories inspired by world landscapes and endangered animal species. On Friday, the artists will perform a live sound and visual storytelling performance "Underground". With it, the artists offer a new look at agricultural progress and climate change and encourage us to think about the role of each of us in creating a sustainable world.
During the weekend, the duo will invite the little visitors of the festival to free creativity activities at the MO Museum.
Within the framework of the festival, it is planned to pay attention to fashion, a short lecture by fashion journalist Deimantė Bulbenkaitė will take place, inviting you to get to know the fundamental intersections of fashion and cinema.
As announced, during the festival it will be possible to admire the paintings painted by Lithuanians, painted in the film "Peasants". In Vilnius, the exhibition will take place on the 3rd floor of the "Forum Cinemas Vingis" movie theater, in Kaunas - in the "Romuva" movie house. 70 artists from Poland, Ukraine, Serbia and Lithuania painted more than tens of thousands of film frames in an extremely complex realistic manner. This process lasted more than two years, and the artists spent more than 200 thousand on the project. hours.
This year, another novelty is planned for the festival - a secret film. The name of the film will be revealed only after the lights go down in the cinema hall. According to the organizers, this is a unique opportunity for the first to see the film, as it will not reach cinemas all over Lithuania until autumn.
Five hours of short films are scheduled for March 23 in Vilnius and Kaunas.
