In Memory of a Day Gone By
1990, documentary, 35 mm, 40"
Director: Sharunas Bartas
Screenwriter: Sharunas Bartas
DOP: Vladas Naudžius, Artūras Leita
Editors: Ariadna Gruodienė, Nina Romanovskaja
Sound designer: Romas Fedaravičius
Production company: Studija Kinema
Sharunas Bartas’s documentary In Memory of a Day Gone By is one of the first works by the “break generation” of Lithuanian filmmakers who debuted in the 1990s. Marginalized members of society and people with disabilities, unseen in earlier documentaries, came to be principle characters in the new generation’s works, while settings shifted from romanticized countrysides to soiled cities. The shift in aesthetics corresponded to deep changes in the country and represented an attempt by young filmmakers to come to grips with the new reality and find their place within it.
Grand Prize - MOLODIST International Film Festival, Kiev, Ukraine, 1990
Special Jury Prize, Audience Prize - Amsterdam International Documentary Film Festival, The Netherlands, 1990
Pesaro International Film Festival, Italy, 1990
Karlovy Vary International Festival, Czech Republic, 1990
Lodz International Film Festival, Poland, 1990
Rotterdam International Film Festival, The Netherlands, 1990
International Film Forum “Arsenal”, Riga, Latvia, 1990
Marseille International Film Festival Vue Sur Les Docs, France, 1990
International Film Festival in Niepokolanove, Poland, 1993 - Best Documentary Award
International Festival of Anthropological and Sociological Films Cinema du Reel at the George Pompidou Center, Paris, France, 1996
Leipzig International Documentary Film Festival, Germany 1996
Gdańsk International Film Festival, Poland 1996
International Nordic Film Festival Lübeck, Germany, 1996
Ecole Cine International Festival in Nancy, France, 1997
Die Film Fest, France, 1997