- Occupation
Producer - Country
Lithuania
Vildžiunaite Dagne
Igrushki
Belarus. Town of Zhlobin. It’s been 21 years since the collapse of the Soviet Union.Most of the locals survive solely by making and selling soft toys. Their only customers are the people passing through on trains. However, approaching a train with a toy in one’s hands is illegal.The film tells the stories of ordinary people living in the town of Zhlobin. They all make toys, sell them, have chats, drink, go back to making toys, sing, fight and… make toys again.
Father
Vidas Zenonas Antonovas has been recorded in the book of the most interesting criminals of Soviet Union. He stole around a million rubles from the state’s institutions. Together with his accomplices, he hijacked a plane with passengers in order to split for Africa. He has been nicknamed “The Father of Mafia“. 20 years of his time he did in 15 different prisons. Now he is 71 and has a big family – 10 children, 2 grandchildren and a newborn son.It is a documentary about the values of an ex-con, about a man challenging time and destiny, about the drives of an insatiable lust for lifeabout. It is a love story of one family. There are neither romantic moments nor miracules changes. But there is a strong potential to change our understanding about what happy and loving family is or could be.
How We Played the Revolution
The story of the film begins in 1984, the very beginning of perestroika in USSR, when a group of architects decided to organize a one night music band as a New Year’s party joke in Kaunas, Lithuania. The joke proved to be so good that rumors about the new exciting rock band Antis spread from lips to lips. Imposing make-up and props, stylized show, and lyrics were creating pervasive caricature of the Soviet propaganda and perfectly discrediting the absurd of the Soviet reality. Soon their intellectual clownery grew into the Rock Marches - massive events involving thousands of people - that transformed into the big meetings for Lithuanian Independence later named the Singing Revolution.
Belarus. Town of Zhlobin. It’s been 21 years since the collapse of the Soviet Union.Most of the locals survive solely by making and selling soft toys. Their only customers are the people passing through on trains. However, approaching a train with a toy in one’s hands is illegal.The film tells the stories of ordinary people living in the town of Zhlobin. They all make toys, sell them, have chats, drink, go back to making toys, sing, fight and… make toys again.
Father
Vidas Zenonas Antonovas has been recorded in the book of the most interesting criminals of Soviet Union. He stole around a million rubles from the state’s institutions. Together with his accomplices, he hijacked a plane with passengers in order to split for Africa. He has been nicknamed “The Father of Mafia“. 20 years of his time he did in 15 different prisons. Now he is 71 and has a big family – 10 children, 2 grandchildren and a newborn son.It is a documentary about the values of an ex-con, about a man challenging time and destiny, about the drives of an insatiable lust for lifeabout. It is a love story of one family. There are neither romantic moments nor miracules changes. But there is a strong potential to change our understanding about what happy and loving family is or could be.
How We Played the Revolution
The story of the film begins in 1984, the very beginning of perestroika in USSR, when a group of architects decided to organize a one night music band as a New Year’s party joke in Kaunas, Lithuania. The joke proved to be so good that rumors about the new exciting rock band Antis spread from lips to lips. Imposing make-up and props, stylized show, and lyrics were creating pervasive caricature of the Soviet propaganda and perfectly discrediting the absurd of the Soviet reality. Soon their intellectual clownery grew into the Rock Marches - massive events involving thousands of people - that transformed into the big meetings for Lithuanian Independence later named the Singing Revolution.
Labyrinth
Labyrinth is a film about the practitioners of traditional Lithuanian medicine and magic – herbalists, enchanters, fortune-tellers and charmers, possessing exceptional skills and powers, based on age-old knowledge passed from generation onto generation. Traditional folk medicine and magic is still alive. We are searching for an answer to what makes this unique and valued old knowledge viable now, in the 21st century?
Labyrinth is a film about the practitioners of traditional Lithuanian medicine and magic – herbalists, enchanters, fortune-tellers and charmers, possessing exceptional skills and powers, based on age-old knowledge passed from generation onto generation. Traditional folk medicine and magic is still alive. We are searching for an answer to what makes this unique and valued old knowledge viable now, in the 21st century?
Producer DAGNE VILDZIUNAITE has strong experience in producing cultural and social projects, TV and film programs. She has bachelor degree both in Psychology and TV and Film Management.
In the year 2007 together with partner she has established Production Company “Just a moment” and is working with young Lithuanian documentary and fiction directors.
JULIA/ doc. dir. J.Jackie Baier, ’89, 2013, in co-prod. with Gamma Bak Filmproduktion (DE) and J.Jackie Baier Filmproduktion (DE)IGRUSHKI (Igruški) / doc., dir. Lina Lužytė, ’58, 2012MARINA’S HOUSE / doc., dir. Dali Rust,’54, 2012, in co-prod. with VITA AKTIVA (RU) HOW WE PLAYED THE REVOLUTION (Kaip mes žaidėme revoliuciją) / doc., dir. Giedrė Žickytė, ’52, 2012, in co-prod. with 13 PRODUCTIONS (FR) THE LAST DAY OF THE HONEYMOON (Paskutinė medaus mėnesio diena) / fiction, dir. Rokas Eltermanas, ’30, 2012, in co-prod. with Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre (LT) A STORY OF A DEPORTEE EXILED BY HER OWN FATHER (Tremtinės istorija, kurią ištrėmė pats tėvas) / doc., dir. Andrius Blaževičius,’14, 2012, in co-prod. with Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre (LT)I‘VE GOT CLINICAL DEPRESSION AND I HOOVER THE GRASS (Man klinikinė depresija ir aš siurbiu žolę) / doc., dir. Rokas Eltermanas, ’25, 2010, in co-prod. with Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre (LT)Festivals MAGPIE II (Šarka II ) / doc., dir. Mykolas Vildžiūnas, ’28, 2010BARAS / TV doc., dir. Giedrė Žickytė ’50, 2009, in co-prod. with LRT, Lithuania National TV Channel (LT)
Just a Moment
Bernardinu st. 10
LT-01124 Vilnius
Bernardinu st. 10
LT-01124 Vilnius