Lithuanian cinematography

Many of us like film watching, but a few knows about our country cinematography. The history of Lithuanian cinema falls into two distinct periods – soviet and post-soviet. Before Lithuania broke off from the Soviet Union in 1990, filmmaking in Lithuania was financed from Soviey Union. Until 1990, Lithuania produced seven feature films, 40 documentaries and two animation films. After 1990 in Lithuania has started cinema revoliution. In private companies there were made 18 full-length features, 24 short features and 137 documentary films. In LFS (Lithuanian Film Studio) 9 full-length features, 3 short features and 65 documentaries films were produced. Diana and Kornelijus Matuzevičiai, Rimantas Gruodis, Henrikas Šablebvičius are artistic direktors, who resound our country in film festivals. National cinema is very important to all countries, because it is a cultural property, which is protected by all European countries.