Lithuanian Film premieres

Next Stop Paneriai

20 min. | Documentary | Pegi 13

A train pulls into snow-covered Paneriai, raising a cloud of snow in its wake. Eitvydas Doškus’s Next Stop Paneriai offers a distinctive continuation of the cinematic exploration of the city begun in Once Upon a Vilnius. This time, however, the railway becomes the axis of a story about multilayered time. Traces of the past are preserved by the Paneriai Memorial and an abandoned tunnel inhabited by bats, semi-feral cats and crumbling houses mark a vanishing present, while children playing at school turn our gaze towards the future. These layers of time overlap like images changing one after another through a train window, making it impossible to clearly distinguish what has already happened from what is yet to come. A meditative film distinguished by its evocative soundtrack, Next Stop Paneriai creates a sensory portrait of a part of Vilnius that is most often simply driven through.

Eitvydas Doškus

Eitvydas Doškus

Eitvydas Doškus (born 1987) is a Lithuanian cinematographer and film director, a member of the Lithuanian Association of Cinematographers (LAC) and the Lithuanian Filmmakers’ Union. He is best known for his collaborations with prominent Lithuanian directors and for his directorial debut, the documentary city symphony Once Upon a Vilnius (2022).

Original title
Kita stotelė Paneriai
Produced
2026: Lithuania

Film information

Director
Eitvydas Doškus
Producers
Jurga Kaey, „Darbininkai“
Screenplay
Eitvydas Doškus
Music
Vytautas Kisevičius, Paulius Kilbauskas
Cinematography
Eitvydas Doškus