The Lithuanian Film Centre (LFC) has announced its latest round of funding pre-approvals for 2020, which covers 48 projects spread across various programmes and production stages. The support granted totals over €2.68 million, with €2.4 million earmarked for the production of 28 films, €223,000 to support five minority co-productions, and the rest intended for the development of 20 projects.

More precisely, 14 feature-film projects will be supported with a total grant of €1.76 million. Six fiction features have been selected, and the recipients include seasoned filmmaker Algimantas Puipa (whose latest effort, Other Side of Silence [+lee también:
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The feature-film selection is topped off by eight documentaries, including producer-director Giedrė Žickytė’s (The Earth Is Blue as an Orange [+lee también:
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Moving on to the minority international co-productions, the LFC’s support is being split among two fiction features (Rain on Two Sides by acclaimed Georgian director Zaza Khalvashi [Namme [+lee también:
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Finally, nine short films will receive a total grant of over €414,000, and the selection includes two fiction titles, three documentaries and four animated movies.