At Grand OFF, a gala, world independent film awards ceremony in Warsaw , M. Ivaškevičius received the award for Best Screenplay for his film Tėve mūsų ‘Our Father’.

The Lithuanian Filmmakers Union presented its 2011 awards at the Lithuanian Theatre, Music and Cinema Museum .

Stebuklų laukas ‘The Field of Magic’, the debut film of Mindaugas Survila, has been selected for inclusion in two international movie festivals.

Taip Laima Lėmė ‘Laima Determines the Destiny’, an animation film by famed director and artist Jūratė Leikaitė–Aškinienė was shown at Animaevka, the XIV International Animation Film Festival during September 2011. The Festival’s jury awarded the special, Crystal Pencil prize and certificate for the Best Visual Decision to this film. The prize and certificate is delivered by diplomatic mail from Mogilev .

The 36^th Polish Film Festival held in Gdynis was one of the most important events for national cinema in .

Artūras Zuokas, the mayor of Vilnius, met with Rasa Miškinyte, Chairwoman of the Independent Producers Association (IPA) and IPA and cinema cluster representatives to discuss opportunities for implementing promotional means in Vilnius that would allow the city to become a cinema capital. Currently Vilnius has been losing its position on the map of the film-making industry.

A prize was awarded in Antwerp for the full-length documentary film Antwerpen Centraal (on the central railroad station in Antwerp ), directed by the well-known Belgian documentary film director Peter Krüger. (The documentary film festival in Vilnius had presented a retrospective of his films.) This movie was filmed by Lithuanian cameraman Rimvydas Leipus (LAC). 

La Fémis, the prestigious film school in Paris , aired the movie Sharunas Bartas: An Army of One by Director Guillaume Coudray in its movie theater on April 27, 2011.

The shooting for the "Vanishing Waves" is taking place in Vilnius, its surroundings and on the Lithuanian coast. The shooting is planed to end in early December 2010. The film is produced by Ieva Norviliene (Tremor, Lithuania) in co-production with Pascal Judelewicz (Acajou Films, France). The main character – Lukas is played by one of most popular Lithuanian young actors Marius Jampolskis, and Aurora is played by Lithuanian artist Jurga Jutaitė.

DocAllianceFilms offers from 22nd to 28th November a selection of Lithuanian documentaries including films by Arunas Matelis, Audrius Stonys and others. Films like "Man-Horse" and "Flight over Lithuania or 510 Seconds of Silence" are available from 22nd to 28th November for FREE streaming at http://docalliancefilms.com/event/26/

The 7^th International Film Festival Dokumenta Madrid 10 ended yesterday. A documentary film by Julija and Rimantas Gruodis, The River (Upė), won the first prize in the competition of short documentary films.

The full-length feature debut My Joy (Schastye moe) directed by Sergei Loznitsa was screened as part of the Official Selection of the Cannes International Film Festival on May 13 – 23. Several Lithuanian filmmakers have contributed to this film: film editor Danielius Kokanauskis, sound engineer Sigitas Motoras and sound director Vladimir Golovnitski who often works in .

A film by Kristijonas Vildžiūnas, You Am I (2006) was screened yesterday, during the Eastern European Film Festival in Sheffield, , that takes place from April 14 to May 19.

The EuroCine festival will present 27 films from 27 European Union Member States in five European capitals on May 9. European films will be screened in Brussels, Luxemburg, Rome, Madrid, Strasbourg, Lyons and Paris that day.