OFFshorts – Young Baltic Cinema Block 1

Friday, April 24th | 2.30 – 4.30 p.m. | MAU Club | age recommendation: 12 years

 

Ne taip turėjo būti | Happily Never

Road Movie, Fantasy, Drama | 2026 | 14:41 min 

Once, not so far away and not so long ago, the young goddess Aušrinė is assigned to guide a mortal — a woman lost in love letters from a mysterious stranger. Hoping to bring her happiness, Aušrinė convinces the woman to travel to the city and meet her beloved unknown for the first time

  • Director: Kristina Savickaitė, 22, Vilnius (Lithuania)

  • D.o.p: Lukas Baranauskas

  • Editor: Rugilė Žėkaitė

Sjung min sång | Sing my song

Drama, Dystopian | 2026 | 10:11 min | Trigger

In the near future, Mariam and her family face a financial crisis. At the same time, the Swedish government launches an integration tool called Language Maximization, offering immigrants a generous grant in exchange for erasing all memory of their mother tongue.

  • Director: Julia Ammouri, 24, Stockholm (Sweden)

  • D.o.p: Viktor Envall

  • Editor: Adam Arbinge

På Grensa | Borderline

Comedy | 2026 | 11:39 min | Trigger

A Norwegian customs officer, a Finnish poacher, and a mysterious Swedish woman meet at the border between their homelands, becoming entangled in a conflict over laws, language, and prejudice.

  • Director: Johannes Vang, 24, Rotsund (Norway)

  • D.o.p: Adam Enochsson

  • Editor: Jonathan Vang

Niekas | Nothing

2D Digital Collage Animation, DADA Film  | 2025 | 03:30 min

Marcel Duchamp sets a urinal on fire. Mustaches bang their heads against the frames of standards until those frames laugh at seriousness. A bicycle wheel spins without direction, while reality crumbles like dust upon forgotten ideas. From the shadow of marble rises David. He kicks the urinal – not out of hatred, but because formless thoughts are denied recognition. The urinal flies into the Hemisphere of Rotation, where there is neither top nor bottom – only ideas that refuse to become objects.

  • Regie: Saulius Juknevičius, 25, Vilnius (Lithuania)

  • D.o.p: Saulius Juknevičius

  • Editor: Saulius Juknevičius

Håll andan | Holding Back

Drama | 2025 | 07:29 min

A day when you realise you want to be more than friends and must decide if you have the courage to act on it or if you have to hold back.

  • Director: Josefin Bromander, 19, Örebro (Sweden)

  • D.o.p: Sune Eskelinen

  • Editor: Josefin Bromander