The Constitution of the Republic of Lithuania, Article 25, Part 1: “Everyone shall have the right to hold and express their convictions. The freedom to express convictions and disseminate information is incompatible with criminal actions – incitement to national, racial, religious, or social hatred, violence and discrimination, as well as slander and disinformation.”

This programme is a cross-section of utopian, dystopian, and completely wild worlds. Films full of controversial friendships and forbidden love – for artificial intelligence dolls, Botox, married women and men, or even hostile nations.

America. The land of dreams, where dreams do not come true for everyone. Wide streets filled with traffic jams. Merciless television programs that act as judges. School boards that ban classic literature. Children fighting against the mafia. Hotels full of families living in poverty. And other paradoxes of a divided society, which are becoming more apparent today than ever before.

What happens behind closed doors when journalists’ cameras are turned off? What is left among the cuts of montage? The films in this programme offer extraordinary access to influential world politicians and their dilemmas. Tense discussions, controversies, and the search for objectivity. The genealogy of the political world through a magnifying glass.

The world is infinitely big and full of feelings. Sometimes it’s love, light, and warmth. Other times – loneliness, darkness, and silent heartache. But how much do we shape the world, and how much does it shape us? The heroes of this programme are looking for their place under the sun. With an open heart, with inspiring ease and determination, they want to connect themselves with the world, commit to others, and to nurture a bond with their land and people.

Against the backdrop of wild landscapes, we see adventurers, entrepreneurs, farmers, shepherds, and travellers. Gradually, it becomes clear that their roles are not the main ones, and that the rivers, hills, mountains, and forests that surround them are not merely a background. In these films, the landscapes come to life and irreversibly permeate the characters’ existence.

We face an overwhelming number of problems in the world, and the responsibility for solutions often lies on the scientists’ shoulders. The films in this programme combine cinema, science, and society. These films will allow you to feel the exciting joy of discovery whatever it may be: new types of fungi, forms of life, or entire continents. At the same time, they might help you take a breath of relief by reminding you that there are people whose job is to take care of our planet. Even in times of all-encompassing disinformation, they choose to speak facts and seek the truth. Maybe it's time for us as a society to finally turn to science?

When the system doesn’t hear you – you have to shout louder. When your rights are taken away – you have to fight to reclaim them. This programme is about those who didn’t give in. About inspiring people who dare to change the world, even when it tries to silence them.

Unspoken words linger in the air, get stuck in the throat, seep into silence, hide in body language. This programme is about things we think but don’t say out loud. About the choice to simply be. About emotions searching for form, confessions turning into glances, attachments revealed by the slightest gesture. What remains unsaid often speaks the loudest.

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This programme includes documentaries from the last few years, to which Lithuanian filmmakers have made significant contributions: Lina Lužytė as co-director in a film about young women’s fight for freedom of their bodies, Arturas Jevdokimovas and Ringailė Leščinskienė as co-producers of a film about the everyday life in Ukraine during wartime, and the full Lithuanian film crew that worked on In Passing, the film where photographs by Artūras Morozovas connect the war in Ukraine to the social issues in Lithuania. It’s a programme made of special screenings at Inconvenient Films, dedicated to celebrating Lithuanian filmmakers and their contribution to the fight for human rights.

The programme for youth features witty, inspiring, world-changing stories. Sometimes inconvenient, but always real.

Extended reality programme NK-INTERACTIVE presents not only virtual reality films, but also new technology forms such as games, video installations and interactive experiences. The newest media innovations present bold scenarios for the future, leading viewers forwards, together. We explore the contemporary bond between human and reality, glancing through the prism of a virtual body. Themes of ecology and sustainablity unravel in the post-anthropocenic world. Gender and sexuality are discovered through a non-heteronormative, non-binary prism. | NK-INTERACTIVE will be open in the basement of the Museum of the Radvilas Palace from 18-28 October.