The programme I AM A HYBRID, a new addition to this year’s Vilnius Film Festival Kino Pavasaris, will show distinctive films that blur the line between documentary and fiction, and that cannot be confined to one genre, aiming to reflect and rethink reality instead of simply showing the truth.

“The films in I AM A HYBRID are called hybrids because they exist between two dimensions – documentary and narrative cinema. If we look at the history of cinema, starting with Dziga Vertov and Sergei Eisenstein, then later John Cassavetes and Jonas Mekas, this relationship has always been contemplated. Even though the camera works as an objective observer that shows us the world, it actually changes and interacts with reality. The films presented in this programme reflect on and comprehend the problem of changing reality, using it as their artistic form and technique,” says Lithuanian philosopher and writer Kristupas Sabolius.

Highlights of the programme include Portuguese director Miguel Gomes’ return with the three-part, six-hour-long film Arabian Nights [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Miguel Gomes
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The 21st Vilnius International Film Festival Kino Pavasaris will take place between 31 March and 14 April. The full I AM A HYBRID programme can be found here.