Lithuanian director Vytautas Katkus has made a name for himself internationally in recent years. Interpersonal relationships and the emotions they entail are recurring themes, which he masterfully represents in all their complexity. His signature style includes silence and meticulous image compositions, producing distinctive worlds that are simultaneously poetic and refreshing. This programme presents a comprehensive and chronological survey of Katkus’s work as a director.

Parketo Skutejai
Marija Kavtaradzė/Vytautas Katkus / Lithuania 2014 / 5'59" / colour / no dialogue / Exp
A short dance piece about three friends, two guys and one girl, who are moving in together. While scraping the floor, the guys find they have feelings for each other, but they are trying to hide them because of a fear of being misunderstood. Inspired by Gustave Caillebotte’s painting «The Floor Scrapers».

Igloo
Vytautas Katkus/Marija Kavtaradzė / Lithuania 2015 / 19'25" / colour / Lithuanian / Fic
A young woman, Greta, returns to Lithuania from abroad and finds out that her mother has turned her room into a hair salon. Unsure where to go, Greta sees a TV episode on igloos and decides to build one outside her mother‘s apartment building. Greta‘s igloo becomes the main issue of the neighborhood – not because it causes any inconvenience for the residents but simply because it annoys them.

Kolektyviniai sodai
Vytautas Katkus / Lithuania 2019 / 15' / DCP / colour / Lithuanian / Fic
Patriarchal masculinity seems to be in its final throes. A story about the cold relationship between a father and his son. Their bond, plagued by indifference, is on the verge of disintegrating completely.

Miegamasis rajonas
Vytautas Katkus / Lithuania 2020 / 11'53" / DCP / colour / Lithuanian / Fic
A story of two childhood friends who are spending their last days in the places where they've grown up. This is how they are trying to postpone their farewell from a district that is changing.

Uogos
Vytautas Katkus / Lithuania 2022 / 15' / DCP / colour / Lithuanian / Fic
A recently retired father invites his son to help him with the cherry picking in the garden. The father is in no hurry to finish the cherry job though, as he tries to catch up with his son. The cherries remain in the background.