Šarūnas Bartas

Šarūnas Bartas (born 16 August 1964) is a Lithuanian film director. 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. His film In the Dusk was part of the official selection of the 2020 Cannes Film Festival.

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 (MÅ«sų 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 mÅ«sų sapnuose) (2015)
• Frost (2017)
• In the Dusk (Sutemose) (2019)
• Back to the Family (2025), It competed in the Big Screen Competition section of the 54th International Film Festival Rotterdam to be screened in February 2025.

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"

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

References

Further reading

• Å arÅ«nas Bartas: The Philosopher of Lithuanian Cinema & Å arÅ«nas Bartas' Films, Renata Å ukaitytė, in: Lithuanian Cinema: Special Edition for Lithuanian Film Days in Poland 2015, Auksė KancerevičiÅ«tė [ed.]. Vilnius: Lithuanian Film Centre, 2015. .

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