A Casa is perhaps the most visually stunning film I've ever encountered. Time stands still in this mansion. Yet present is too fleeting: one can't be sure if it really exists. There is something deeper at work here. The shadows of USSR still lingering in those soulful faces who in habit the place. They speak thousand words w/ their stares. And no one captures Eastern European melancholy like Bartas. The film climaxes with the Christmas Supper scene & fireworks. #lithuaniancinema #SharunasBartas

A young woman is dropped off in the snowy remote village where Tofala prople live. She shares a smoke w/ an old reindeer herder. But the welcome is short lived. At the gathering of the villagers at night, she watches their drunkenness in silence from one corner of the room. After a knife fight w/a couple of drunken local men, she flees the village on foot. No one helps her. It's a cold, unforgiving world for outsiders. This wordless film is stunning. #lithuaniancinema #fewofus #KaterinaGolubeva