FREEDOM
2000, Drama, 35 mm, 94 min
Director: Sharunas Bartas
Screenwriter: Sharunas Bartas
DOP: Sharunas Bartas, Rimvydas Leipus
Set designer: Jurij Grigorovič
Editor: Mingailė Murmulaitienė
Sound designer: Vladimir Golovnitskij
Cast: Valentinas Masalskis, Fatima Ennaflaoui, Axel Neumann
Production companies: Studija Kinema, Gemini Films, Madragoa Filmes
Like everyove taking up the illegal business they didn't expect to get caught. Unfortunatelly, the coast patrol crew didn't distinguish between refugees, drug dealers or just passengers. All of them found themselves under the fire. Only few of them escaped. Searched by the police they remained on the coast without food and money. With a little chence to survive.
Sharunas Bartas received Lithuanian National Culture and Art Prize for "Few of Us", "House" and "Freedom", 2001
Lithuanian Cinematographers' Union Prize, 2000
Venice International Film Festival, competition, Italy, 2000 - Cinema Avvenire Prize
Award for Visual Film Solution - International TV and Film Forum TOGETHER, Yalta, 2001
Toronto International Film Festival, 2000
Sao Paolo International Film Festival, 2000
Stockholm International Film Festival, Sweden, 2000
London International Film Festival, Great Britain, 2000
Belgrade International Film Festival, Yugoslavia, 2000
International Film Forum "Arsenal", Riga, Latvia, 2000
Rotterdam International Film Festival, competition, The Netherlands, 2001
Trieste International Film Festival, Italy, 2001, etc.