Šarūnas Bartas

Šarūnas Bartas
Šarūnas Bartas at the Odesa International Film Festival 2015
Born	(1964-08-16) 16 August 1964 (age 60) Šiauliai, Lithuanian SSR, Soviet Union
Occupation	Film director
Years active	1986–present

Šarūnas Bartas (born 16 August 1964) is a Lithuanian film director.[1] He is one of the most prominent Lithuanian film directors internationally from the late 20th century. His 2015 film Peace to Us in Our Dreams was screened in the Directors' Fortnight section at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival.[2][3] His film In the Dusk was part of the official selection of the 2020 Cannes Film Festival.[4][5]

Filmography

• Tofolaria (1986, short film)
• In the Memory of a Day Gone By (Praėjusios dienos atminimui) (1990, documentary)
• Three Days (Trys dienos) (1991)
• The Corridor (Koridorius) (1995)
• Few of Us (Mūsų nedaug) (1996)
• The House (Namai) (1997)
• Freedom (Laisvė) (2000)
• "Children Lose Nothing" in Visions of Europe (2004)
• Seven Invisible Men (Septyni nematomi žmonės) (2005)
• Eastern Drift (Eurazijos aborigenas) (2010)
• Peace to Us in Our Dreams (Ramybė mūsų sapnuose) (2015)
• Frost (2017)
• In the Dusk (Sutemose) (2019)

Awards

• 1990 - Audience Award in International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam, for "Praėjusios dienos atminimui"
• 1992 - FIPRESCI Prize - Honorable Mention and Prize of the Ecumenical Jury - Special Mention in Berlin International Film Festival, for "Trys dienos"
• 1995 - FIPRESCI Prize in Viennale, for "Koridorius"

C.I.C.A.E. Award in Torino International Festival of Young Cinema, for "Koridorius"

• 2000 - CinemAvvenire Award – Best Film on the Relationship Man-Nature, in Venice Film Festival, for Laisvė

References

1. Peter Rollberg (2016). Historical Dictionary of Russian and Soviet Cinema. US: Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 87–88. ISBN 978-1442268425.
2. "The Directors' Fortnight 2015 selection!". Quinzaine des Réalisateurs. Archived from the original on 23 April 2015. Retrieved 21 April 2015.
3. Justin Chang (21 April 2015). "Cannes: Directors' Fortnight Unveils 2015 Lineup". Variety. Retrieved 21 April 2015.
4. "The films of the Official Selection 2020". Cannes Film Festival. 5 June 2020.
5. Keslassy, Elsa (2020-06-03). "Pixar's 'Soul,' Wes Anderson's 'French Dispatch,' Steve McQueen Movies Among Cannes 2020 Lineup". Variety. Retrieved 2020-06-11.

Further reading

• Šarūnas Bartas: The Philosopher of Lithuanian Cinema & Šarūnas Bartas' Films, Renata Šukaitytė, in: Lithuanian Cinema: Special Edition for Lithuanian Film Days in Poland 2015, Auksė Kancerevičiūtė [ed.]. Vilnius: Lithuanian Film Centre, 2015. ISBN 6099574409.

External links

• Šarūnas Bartas at IMDb