Over the course of almost 20 years of operation, the academy has trained hundreds of young filmmakers. Every year, students create several dozen short films that reflect their worldview, creative pursuits, and growth. This year, we invite you to a retrospective of these works – screenings of thematically different programs that will allow you to look at the history of the academy through films created by students and discover ideas born in different years, see generational differences, and points of contact.
Film screenings will take place in the alternative culture space "Utopija". Every summer month, three free short film screenings will be held here. Each of them will be followed by a discussion with the creators of the films presented in the program. We invite everyone who is interested in cinema made by young people to the screenings! Films will be shown with Lithuanian and English subtitles.
The screening series will begin on June 15 at 8:30 PM with the program "𝐕𝐢𝐥𝐧𝐢𝐚𝐮𝐬 𝐩𝐨𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐭𝐚𝐢". The films for this program were selected by Laurynas Grikštas, cashier-administrator of the "Skalvija" cinema center and philosophy student. After the screening, he will also moderate a discussion with the filmmakers.
Laurynas introduces the program as follows: "The program is a combination of a single program and a single program, Students of the "Skalvis" Film Academy are invited to see the city in their own way: You / You, looking for yourself and others, experiencing the unity of the city, surrounded by people on the streets, isolated in not always harmonious, but living in the city "The world is full of people, and the„
𝐏𝐑𝐎𝐆𝐑𝐀𝐌𝐀:
👁️ City Symphony (dir. Meda Pilkauskaitė) 2.22 min. / 2022
👁️ Galley Across the River (dir. Elena Paldavičiūtė) 4.45 min. / 2025
👁️ Excerpts from "Dance Diaries" (dir. Julija Sotirovič) 9.07 min. / 2023
👁️ To hear, to listen (dir. Augustė Kavaliauskaitė) 6.20 min. / 2017
👁️ Waiting for the Muse (dir. Elzė Karanauskaitė) 5.35 min. / 2026
👁️ Theft (dir. Smiltė Tarabildaitė) 3.35 min. / 2025
👁️ Penetration (dir. Dmitrij Belchikov) 2.32 min. / 2026
👁️ Rotten Hole (dir. Minija Skuudaitė) 10.01 min. / 2024
👁️ Žolynas's website (dir. Emilija Skiauterytė) 2.54 min. / 2025
👁️ EXPLOSION BEFORE THUNDER (dir. Daumantas Kulikauskas) 12.23 min. / 2024
Other summer screening themes are „The Academy of Film“ (July 20) and „The Academy of Film“ (August 24). The program „Vilnius Creators“ will present the works of authors who have graduated from the Academy and are actively creating. Meanwhile, the „Student-Created Program“ will be prepared together with recent Academy students – they will be invited to select and present the most memorable Academy films.
The event cycle is financed by the Vilnius City Municipality.
„The Skalvija Film Academy project is funded by the Lithuanian Council for Culture.
The author of the visual is Soraja Bložytė.