Coming Friday Russian OSCARS will be awarded in Moscow . Among short-listed candidates will be mentioned as well. This year the Lithuanian director Audrius Juzėnas with his film The Ghetto has been invited to participate in the NIKA awards ceremony held by the Russian Film Academy every hear

Lithuanian Film Festival-Competition AXX together with Guerilla Films, the founder of which David Wilkinson is a member and patron of the AXX jury, will release a full-length action film Zero directed by Emilis Vėlyvis especially prepared for the British market. The film will be released in June.

Two Lithuanian films have been selected to be included in programmes of the 36^th International Film Festival Rotterdam that started on Wednesday. The festival will continue from 24 January to 4 February.

Today FIPA, the International Festival of Audiovisual Programmes, started in Biarritz . Its main short film competition programme includes a film directed by Tomas Donela, The Boy and the Sea. This film will be screened tomorrow, 24 January, and on Saturday, 27 January.

The famous Sundance Film Festival will start on Thursday in Park City, Utah (), and will continue for ten days. A film Khadak shot by the Lithuanian cinematographer Rimvydas Leipus (LAC) has been included into its international competition feature film programme.

Yesterday, Lithuanian filmmakers were awarded by the Lithuanian Cinematographers Union for their works in 2005 – 2006.

On 2 December, the International Festival of Documentary and Short Film of Bilbao, Spain, awarded the main prize, a Gold Mikeldi for documentary films, to Ūkų ūkai directed by Audrius Stonys.

The International Film Festival Mannheim-Heidelberg () ended on Saturday, 25 November. A Lithuanian film is among the prize-winners: a short feature film The Boy and the Sea by Tomas Donela

Today Mannheim Meetings 2006 started at the 55^th International Film Festival Mannheim-Heidelberg. Producers, distributors, sales agents and representatives

The International Animated Film Festival Tindirindis, which took place on 19 – 22 October 2006 in Vilnius , awarded a film by Aurika and Algirdas Selenis, The Gipsy and the Dragon (2006),

A wide retrospective of Lithuanian documentary and animated films will be screened during the International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film, 30 October – 5 November.

The film You Am I directed by Kristijonas Vildžiūnas has started its autumn marathon. At the international Riga Film Forum Arsenals, which ended on 24 September, the film won three awards: the Best Baltic Feature Award, the diploma of The International Film

In 2006, for the first time in the history of its cinema, was invited and granted the right to present a Lithuanian film for the Academy Awards – the Oscars. At

Kinoshock, the 15^th Open Film Festival of CIS Countries and Baltic States , ended yesterday. It presents films created in this region during the year. Cinematographer Vladas Naudžius won The Prize for the Best Cinematographer

The International Film Festival Arsenals, which was held on 16 – 24 September, ended yesterday. Lithuanian directors are among the winners of the festival. You Am I directed by Kristijonas Vildžiūnas won the Best Full-Length Feature

The Boy and the Sea by Tomas Donela has started its journey around international festivals. The short film has been invited to several international festivals. The film has been included into the short film

Programmes of the 22^nd Warsaw International Film Festival, which will take place on 6 – 15 October, have been announced. The organisers have invited three films by Lithuanian directors

The legendary cinematographer Sven Nykvist died on 20 September; he was 82. The great master of image and light, also called the Rembrandt of cinema, started his career in film in the 1940s

Khadak (directed by Peter Brosens and Jessica Woodworth, Belgium, Germany, The Netherlands) filmed by Rimvydas Leipus was awarded the Lion of

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