The Courtyard

Valdas Navasaitis (b. 1960) was born in Kaunas. In 1983–1986, he worked as a director, scriptwriter and cameraman at the “Banga” amateur film studio in Kaunas. In 1984, together with director Šarūnas Bartas, he went on an expedition to Siberia (in the eastern part of the Sayan Mountains) to shoot the film Tofalaria. In 1988–1993, he studied film directing at the Moscow State Cinematography Institute. In 1992–1997, he created films for the Kinema film studio. In 1999, Navasaitis founded and became the head of the Image and Sound Studio. He is a member of the Lithuanian Cinematographers’ Union and of the Association of Producers, and he sits on the Cinema Council at the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Lithuania. He is also a member of the European Documentary Network. —14th Vilnius International Film Festival