Long-awaited Lithuanian historical drama “Owl Mountain” has already been able to stir up the audience’s curiosity and debate about the film and the painful topic of Soviet occupation which is examined in this film.

“Miracle”, the tragicomedy by Eglė Vertelytė was received with packed cinema halls at the International Toronto Film Festival, where the world premiere of the film took place. “The Miracle” is the second Lithuanian film, that, after 17 years, has been selected for screening at the most important in North America and one of the most prestigious film events in the world. This festival is only the beginning of international travels of the film.    

But this is a film-deception. They are promising a dialogue – but the conversation is not developing, questions do not get answers. They are promising communication with Josef – but we get to interact with images, and they are not so much Josef's, but more of what he sees from his balcony. They are promising documentary – just images we get. Seen by Josef, and painted by Josef.

While contemplating about the film "I’m Not From Here", for me, the most interesting were the distances. Here – Giedrė Žickytė had to travel several hundred kilometres to Denmark, to meet the Chilean director Maite Alberdi there, in the special film workshop. Later, she had to cover a few thousand kilometres to the Chilean capital Santiago, to make there finally a film about a woman with Alzheimer's disease, who forgets what she did yesterday, but does not forget what happened in her youth days in her native Basque country, separated from Chile by the vastness of the continent, and the Atlantic Ocean.