Kim Uljana

Train Stops for Five Minutes
The film tells about a town N and its people. “It has been long since the sound of train carriages rolling on the rails beat the rhythm of their lives. A huge stone on the Railway Station Square reminds of the moments when the train used to stop here for longer in order to swallow thousands of people only to spit them out in the wide open spaces of Siberia. Now it stops only for five minutes. Yet this is enough time for farewell kisses and a promise to return. Town N is populated by those who have built homes and given birth to their children here for a purpose, because nothing happens just by chance. Thus, ordinary everyday life in a provincial town N hides people’s extraordinary dreams, memories, discoveries and losses” .

Lisa, Go Home!
One child's soul does not want to reconcile with her surroundings. A crew of film-makers made the effort to record what reflects the generation gap between the little girl Lisa and the world of adults in her family. Part of the continuing conflicts that were recorded occur because of Lisa keeps running away from home. “Why are you always running away? What are you missing?” the little girl hears persistently. However, how is it possible to explain what is compehensible to her own soul only - what is within the indescribably fragile existence of a child? This is a world surrounded by coarse and brutal realities... How long may the child resist this environment and safeguard her own dream?

The Man Who Lived in Three-Dimensional Time
The story of man who lived in 3D times. This is the story of the President of the Estonian Republic. He was a writer, filmmaker, traveler and diplomat who took revenge for his father’s lost generation.

Uljana Kim, producerBorn in 1969 in Osh, Kyrgyzstan Address: Antakalnio 94-25, LT10202 Vilnius, LithuaniaTel.: +370 699 26552E-mail: kim@lfc.ltLanguages: Russian, Lithuanian and EnglishEducation: VGIK (Institute of Cinematography in Moscow), cinema criticAttainments – Master of Arts, 1993

1997 – PAVASARIS / SPRING (short doc., dir. V. Navasaitis) with Sodaperaga production (France) the best short film prize – Cinema du reel 1997 Paris the best documentary prize – L’Alternativa ’97 Barcelona the main prize – Oberhauzen 19981999 – KIEMAS / THE COURTYARD (full feature, dir. V. Navasaitis) with Les Films de L’Observatoire (France) Festival de Cannes 1999, Quinzaine des Realisateurs Fipresci prize, Second prize Baltic films selection, Arsenals, Riga 2000 Best Director of Photography prize, “Kinoshock” Russia 20001999 – 9 VARTŲ MIESTAS / 9 GATES CITY (short doc., dir. K. Vildžiūnas) the Medienwerkstatt prize, DokumentArt Neubrandenburg, 20002002 – NUOMOS SUTARTIS / THE LEASE (full feature, dir. K. Vildžiūnas) 59 Mostra Internazionale d’Arte Cinematografica, Controcorrente – competition, Venice 2002 Best Baltic Feature film – Arsenals, Riga 2002 2006 – YOU AM I (full feature, dir. K. Vildžiūnas) with “Pandora Film Produktion” (Germany) 59 Festival de Cannes, official selection “Un Certain Regard”Best Baltic Feature film; Fipresci jury diploma – Arsenals, Riga 2006 Best Director of Photography prize, “Kinoshock” Russia 2006 Special Jury Prize, Tallinn Black Nights FF 20062007 – NUODĖMĖS UŽKALBĖJIMAS / WHISPER OF SIN (full feature, dir. A. Puipa) The Main prize for the Best Full-length feature ("The Golden Vine") & The Prize for the Best Producer,“Kinoshock” Russia 20072008 - PERPETUUM MOBILE (full feature, dir. V. Navasaitis) 38th International Film Festival Rotterdam, official selection „Bright Future“ 2009 - THE TRAIN STOPS FOR FIVE MINUTES (full doc., dir. J. Lapinskaite) – - BACK TO YOUR ARMS (full feature, dir. K. Vildziunas) – in post-production - MIEGANČIŲ DRUGELIŲ TVIRTOVĖ / FORTRESS OF SLEEPING BUTTERFLIES (full feature dir.A Puipa) – in production Other activities:From 2007 the substitute of Lithuanian representative on the Board of Council of Europe EURIMAGES From 2004 the head of the project LITHUANIAN FILM PROMOTION AND INFORMATION AGENCY 1.In 2004 for the first time in Lithuania was organized Lithuanian Film Festival “Trispalvis kinas”/ “Three Colors Cinema”, which offered a panorama of Lithuanian cinema of 1990 - 2004, with 13 feature,10 documentary, three short and one animation film programs included. 2.In 2004 also for the first time in Lithuanian film historywas launched a new website WWW.LFC.LTThe principal goals of LFC are to collect information about Lithuanian film-makers and provide the latest news about Lithuanian cinema.3.In 2004-05 together with Lithuanian Media Desk were organized two workshops for Lithuanian film professionals:“Film marketing and promotion” (tutors: Claudia Landsberger “Holland Film”/European Film Promotion; Phyllis Molet; John Durie /”Strategic Film Marketing”.“Art of Pitching” (tutor: Amilia Burrage)4.In 2005 together with “Baltic Films” and EDN (European Documentary Network) was hold “Baltic Sea Documentary Forum”, which included in its program workshop, screenings, pitching session for 18 editors from European broadcasters and funds. Around 50 participants with the selected projects from Baltic countries, Belarus, Russia, Poland and the Ukraine took part in this forum.5.One of the Agency’s activity is the collaboration with different filmfestivals/film institutions/organisations from Europe, Russia and Baltic countries. The last one was with International Film Festival Rotterdam’2006 organizing the new programme of it: “HotSpots: Vilnius”. 2001-2003 general manager of Studio “Kinema Group”: during the production of SEVEN INVISIBLE MEN (full feature, dir. Sh. Bartas)