The Spring

Pavasaris

Lithuania

1997

20 Min

Color

Lithuanian

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PROD Sharunas Bartas, Guy Séligmann

Spring arrives in the lands of the North. The snow melts and the rain comes. The water floods the fields and the streets. Men and animals go around in boats. The film is a portraiture of an old farmer at work doing his daily chores in an area that is completely flooded. The situation is catastrophic, but for the man it is only one of the many floods he has experienced in his life. —Festival dei Popoli

Director

Valdas Navasaitis

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