Laguna

Šarūnas Bartas was born in Šiauliai, Lithuania, in 1964. After graduating from VGIK film school in Moscow, he founded Studija Kinema in 1989 – the first independent film studio in Lithuania. His very first films received critical acclaim. Three Days, The Corridor, and Few of Us established a distinctive, sensitive cinematic world that resonates in Peace to Us in Our Dreams and continues in his latest work, Laguna. Retrospectives of Bartas’s films have been held at the Centre Pompidou in Paris as well as in Poland, Spain, Brazil, Argentina, Mexico, Peru, Portugal, Belgium, and many other countries. In recent years, At Dusk premiered in Cannes (Directors’ Fortnight and Official Selection), Frost was also presented in Cannes, and his latest feature, Back to the Family, premiered in Rotterdam.