Smart Casual

29/10/2025

🎬 Our producer Justinas Pocius will attend ACE Producers Training Days Poland 2025!

🌟 Thank you for the opportunity, ACE Producers !

Exciting news! We’re thrilled to announce the selection for Training Days Poland 2025, taking place on 26 & 27 November 2025 in Warsaw.

The programme is centred around “Fundamentals of International Co-Productions” and brings together 12 producers from Poland and neighbouring countries.

Training Days Poland is organised in collaboration with Independent Film Foundation and supported by the Polish Film Institute.

Check out the full selection in the comments.

23/10/2025

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We are super happy to announce that our feature documentary film 𝗦𝗛𝗜𝗣 will be the closing film of the Kaunas Biennial on November 21st and the opening film of the VILNIUS INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVAL on November 27th!

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Thanks to the legend Algirdas Stravinskas and our wonderful team for making this happen.

✨TEAM:
Director & Screenwriter: Gerda Paliušytė
DOP: Vytautas Katkus LAC
Editor: Gintarė Sokelytė
Producers: Rūta Petronytė, Justinas Pocius (Smart Casual)
Composers: Collins Oboh, Adomas Koreniukas
Sound Designer: Kipras Dominas
Art directors: Jurgis Paškevičius, Gediminas G. Akstinas
Street dance team: Low Air dance school | theatre
Film is distributed by Taip Toliau.

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The film will be available in cinemas next month. Find more information about the screening by following the links in the comments.

♥️Project was supported by Lietuvos kino centras.

02/10/2025

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‼️ Smart Casual stands together with the entire art and culture community — we will not accept the Ministry of Culture being handed over to the political force Nemuno aušra!!

‼️This Sunday, October 5th, let’s gather at the warning strike and at Streiko kinas!

18/09/2025

Next stop... Coco Pitch! 🎬

BEGINNERS (by Birutė Kapustinskaitė) is heading to the cocoPITCH event, organized by the Film Festival Cottbus!

✨ You can check out all the other incredible projects selected for the event by following the link in the comments.

💖 This project is supported by Creative Europe and Lietuvos kino centras .

12/09/2025

🇮🇹 Meet us at MIA Co-Production Market and Pitching Forum with our project Beginners in Rome this October!
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✨Thank you, Lietuvos kino centras , for partially financing our trip to Rome!
✨ This project is supported by Creative Europe and Lietuvos kino centras
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🎬 Read more about our project and other selected ones by following the link in the comments.

11/09/2025

🚀 Our junior producer Marija Kazlauskaite will be taking part in the Emerging Film Producers Training Program “Up”.

❤️ Thanks to the Lithuanian Shorts for this amazing opportunity!

✨ More about the program an other participants:

This October, Vilnius will host the first season of ‘UP!’, Lithuania’s only training program designed for emerging film producers seeking...

05/09/2025

🎬 Our film Big Loop Small Loop (directed by Zanete Skarule and Tomas Vengris) will premiere at the RIGA IFF / Riga International Film Festival on October 22.

✨ Thanks to our amazing team who made this film possible. We’re really happy to finally share it with you in Riga! ✨

📅 Screening dates are in the comments below.
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Film was co-produced with Dominks Jarmakovičs (Locomotive) , and supported by the Lietuvos kino centras.

20/08/2025

Our producers and director are at The Norwegian International Film Festival in Haugesund, pitching our film FLOOD! 🎬✨

⭐️Feeling excited to share our story on this amazing stage.

💛Big thanks to the Norwegian International Film Festival and Lithuanian Film Centre for this opportunity!

💛 This project is supported by Creative Europe

06/08/2025

✨Fantastic news - our project 🌊FLOOD by Jorūnė Greičiūtė, has been selected for the Nordic Co-Production Market NEW NORDIC FILMS in Haugesund!

⭐️More info - https://bit.ly/46KTLsW

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💙Big thanks to the Norwegian International Film Festival and Lithuanian Film Centre for this opportunity!

💙 This project is supported by Creative Europe

17/07/2025

🎬 Fantastic news from the Lithuanian Film Centre! Four of our projects just got support in the second round of funding:

⭐️ Solipsis by Harm Dens, produced by Marc Goyens (Quetzalcoatl), co-produced by Rūta Petronytė, Justinas Pocius – as a minority co-production
⭐️Beginners by Birutė Kapustinskaitė, produced by Rūta Petronytė, Justinas Pocius – for feature development
⭐️ An Exceptional View by Milda Augustaitytė, produced by Marija Kazlauskaitė– for the production of a first short documentary.
⭐️ Luka by Laura Udra, produced by Marija Kazlauskaitė – for feature documentary development

Thanks to the Lietuvos kino centras for the support — we’re excited to keep working on these films🎥🎬

10/07/2025

🎬 Love Lithuanian cinema?
Check out our films "The Nominees" and "Mothers" — both written and directed by Birutė Kapustinskaitė and produced by Smart Casual 🎥

📺 Now streaming on Telia Play and ŽMONĖS Cinema

✨Follow our page for more behind-the-scenes, upcoming projects, and real stories told through powerful filmmaking.

02/07/2025

We’re excited to share that BEGINNERS by Birutė Kapustinskaitė 🎬 and FLOOD by Jorūnė Greičiūtė🌊 have received European mini-slate development funding from Creative Europe — a great step forward for two unique upcoming films!