a ballet in 2 acts, after the music of Édith Piaf, Gabriel Fauré, Maurice Ravel, etc.
Music performed on tape

Choreographer Mauro Bigonzetti (Italy)
Set and Lighting Designer Carlo Cerri (Italy)
Associate Lighting Designer Massimo Consoli (Italy)
Costume Designers Ugnė Tamuliūnaitė, Mauro Bigonzetti (Italy)
Assistant to the Choreographer Macha Daudel (France)

Premiere: 21 April, 2017
Running time: 2 hrs.

The song "Non, je ne regrette rien" took the world by storm, and "No, I don't regret anything" was the life motto of its performer legendary Édith Piaf. This petite, fragile woman possessed a powerful voice, with which she told stories of love, loss, passion and the Parisian life. The exceptionally emotional singer, the unrivalled legend of the chanson genre, was often called the sparrow of Paris, and to the French she remains as the national pride and treasure of their country.

“I’ve put my entire soul into La bohème. I fell in love with it immensely. There are no words to describe how strongly I’ve fallen in love with the characters that were created”, – wrote Giacomo Puccini in his letter after the premiere in 1896. The audiences couldn’t stay indifferent to this opera as well: after the performances in Italy the theatregoers wouldn’t allow the performers to walk off the stage up until midnight. Over three years La bohème triumphed not only in Europe, but also in Africa, North and South America, Turkey. Today it is one of the most popular and most often produced masterpieces.

2019, 77 min.

Prancūzija / France

Režisierius / Director(s): Quentin Dupieux

Scenarijaus autoriai / Screenwriter(s): Quentin Dupieux

Aktoriai / Actor(s) – Jean Dujardin, Adèle, Haenel, Albert Delpy Prodiuseriai / Producer(s) - Mathieu Verhaeghe, Thomas Verghaeghe

Operatorius / Cinematographer - Quentin Dupieux Montažas / Editor(s) - Quentin Dupieux

Kompozitoriai / Composer(s) – Janko Nilovic

Dialogai / Dialogues – Prancūzų / French Subtitrai / Subtitles – Lietuvių, Anglų / Lithuanian, English

"The new black comedy by the French film hooligan and musician Quentin Dupieux has made the entire Cannes audience laugh, and instantly became one of the most anticipated films in film festivals. The time has come for Lithuanians to test their sense of humor.” (Gediminas Kukta)

George has a deerskin fetish. In fact, his obsession is so strong that after divorce, the man spends all of his savings on a vintage deerskin jacket. It fits him perfectly, and those fringes! Now George is cool, like a different man. One evening at a roadside inn, the stylish George meets a bartender Denise and pretending to be a director, convinces her to support his non-existent film project. All for getting more deerskin clothes. All of them - if possible. George's madness reaches its peak.

The 25th Vilnius IFF invites viewers to celebrate its anniversary at the Lithuanian National Opera and Ballet Theatre with four special screenings on March 21–22.

1928, 78 min.

Jungtinės Valstijos / United States

Režisierius / Director(s) - Charlie Chaplin

Scenarijaus autoriai / Screenwriter(s) - Charlie Chaplin

Aktoriai / Actor(s) – Al Ernest Garcia, Merna Kennedy, Harry Crocker, George Davis, Henry Bergman, Charlie Chaplin
Prodiuseriai / Producer(s) - Charlie Chaplin

Operatorius / Cinematographer – Roland Totheroh
Montažas / Editor(s) - Charlie Chaplin

Kompozitoriai / Composer(s) - Charlie Chaplin

Dialogai / Dialogues – be dialogų
Subtitrai / Subtitles – lietuvių, anglų / Lithuanian, English

“This film is the world’s most famous comedian‘s tribute to acrobatics and pantomime for it having inspired the greatest roles of his career. To quote the film theorist Bél Balázs, the flat feet of Chaplin’s character seem to belong to a slick acrobat with a bittersweet smile that wins us over and genius wisdom behind humble naiveté.” (Gediminas Kukta)

Charlie Chaplin’s ‘The Tramp’ is accused of pickpocketing and hiding in a traveling circus to avoid the police. But as they say, when you flee from a wolf, you run into a bear. The poor man is exploited by the circus owner and, unknowingly, becomes an entertainer. And he dreams of the owner’s stepdaughter. The only obstacle – she falls in love with another. He must win the girl’s heart with a bold stunt. The last Chaplin’s film created in the end of the silent era, and the first to bring him an Oscar.

The 25th Vilnius IFF invites viewers to celebrate its anniversary at the Lithuanian National Opera and Ballet Theatre with four special screenings on March 21–22.

2019, 121 min., N-16

Prancūzija / France

Režisierius / Director(s) - Céline Sciamma

Scenarijaus autoriai / Screenwriter(s) - Céline Sciamma

Aktoriai / Actor(s) – Noémie Merlant, Adèle Haenel, Luàna Bajrami Prodiuseriai / Producer(s) – Rémi Burah, Véronique Cayla, Bénédicte Couvreur

Operatorius / Cinematographer – Claire Mathon Montažas / Editor(s) – Julien Lacheray

Kompozitoriai / Composer(s) – Arthur Simonini, Jean-Baptiste de Laubier

Dialogai / Dialogues – prancūzų / French

Subtitrai / Subtitles – lietuvių, anglų / Lithuanian, English

„Celine Sciamma masterfully directs the shades of passion and rebellion, and film’s DOP Claire Mathon lovingly captures the stunning Northern France landscapes as a background for the portrait of two women who find solace in each other”. (Aistė Račaitytė) 
 
On a remote island in Brittany at the end of the 18th century, young painter Marianne is commissioned to create the wedding portrait of Héloïse, a young lady who has just left the convent. Bride-to-be is clueless about the wedding her mother arranged therefore Marianne needs to paint in secret. Standing in for a walking companion, the painter is exploring young lady during the day and paints her while she is asleep. Forbidden feelings grow between the two as they share Héloïse’s first and last moments of freedom.

MEISTRAI, Retrospektyva: Bong Joon-ho / MASTERS, Retrospective: Bong Joon-ho

2019, 132 min., N-16

Pietų Korėja / South Korea

Režisierius / Director(s) - Bong Joon-ho

Scenarijaus autoriai / Screenwriter(s) - Bong Joon-ho, Jin Won Han

Aktoriai / Actor(s) – Kang-ho Song, Sun-kyun Lee, Yeo-jeong Jo Prodiuseriai / Producer(s) – Ok Kyung Bang, Joon-ho Bang, Min Heoi Heo

Operatorius / Cinematographer – Kyung-pyo Hong Montažas / Editor(s) – Jinmo Yang

Kompozitoriai / Composer(s) – Jaeil Jung

Dialogai / Dialogues – korėjiečių / Korean Subtitrai / Subtitles – lietuvių, anglų / Lithuanian, English

“Thanks to his masterful direction, Bong Joon-ho’s relevant political messages unwrap in thought provoking but also highly entertaining form. He calls it “a comedy without clowns and a tragedy without villains“. Class struggle becomes an accelerating power pushing the narrative towards the explosive pay off.” (Aistė Račaitytė)

Ki–Taek family may be strong as a fist, but they live in a cramped basement, surrounded by poverty and no future ahead of them. On the other end of the city, the family of powerful businessman Park leads a prosperous life in their luxurious villa. After an unexpected stroke of luck the eldest son of Ki-Taek takes on a role of a private tutor for Park’s teenage daughter. It gives birth to a selfish plan that should end family’s struggle. Wild chain of events will intertwine the lives of two families for ever.

Sergei Prokofiev created ballet Romeo and Juliet in 1935-1936 – at that time he regretted his return from West to Russia and tried to get back, however, the Iron Curtain prevented him from doing so. The new impressive ballet was shunned by Russian theatres and saw daylight only in 1938 in Brno, Czechoslovakia. In Lithuania its premiere was unveiled in 1977. The production created in 1993 by Vladimir Vasiliev turned into a staple of Lithuanian ballet. The new interpretation of the eternal love story was offered by LNOBT's artistic director of ballet Krzysztof Pastor.    

Along with Gounod’s Faust and Bizet’s Carmen, Jules Massenet’s Manon is one of the most famous and beloved French operas. At the LNOBT the premiere of Manon was presented on 18 September, 2015. The production immediately attracted everyone’s attention and was greeted with very positive reviews from both the audience and the critics. The main criterion for choosing creative team for Manon was its relation to the French operatic tradition. Thus, on the stage one can see the authentic chatter from the streets of Paris and the spellbinding charm of La Belle Époque.  

Never before have I felt such responsibility and been so uplifted while producing a theatre performance: after all, the love story of Barbora and Žygimantas Augustas is genuine, sorrowful and controversial. No one knows the exact turns within the story and different chronicles contain only bits and pieces, thus I was enjoying a certain freedom of creativity. The whole action is transposed into an abstract scenery, the characters are wearing stylized costumes of the epoch. I am creating live theatrical action through gentle idealization of the love story, slightly personalized interpretation of facts and my own feminine intuition. I’m not really interested in finding a modern form of the production – the main concern is the action itself, where fates of people are closely intertwined. (Choreographer Anželika Cholina)