How many different lives we see from the front of the parade, but only those closest to us see what is behind the curtain. With these films, the filmmakers reveal what we do not see in everyday life: the complex world of childhood, the abuse of the weak, the atrocities and echoes of a bygone era. The programme encourages us to look critically at what we live now and what we lived in the past. The programme is part of Lithuanian Shorts' short film programme curation workshop for seniors "Cinema Journeys". The Agency is funded by the Lithuanian Council for Culture. N-13 Numeris Jeden / Number One Dir. Milda Augustaitytė / documentary / Lithuania / 2023 / 15 min. Twelve-year-old Arianas and his partner prepare for the Lithuanian Standard and Latin American Dance Championships. The dancers must learn to understand the adult world at an early age - how to show masculinity, seduce women and sell themselves. But is that enough to win a championship? Mėta / On Purpose Dir. Adas Burškaitis / feature / Lithuania / 2023 / 15 min. 8-year-old Mėta has to urgently find help for her injured dog. One Life / One Life Dir. Marija Stonytė / documentary / Lithuania / 2019 / 19 min. A butterfly born on a private farm is sold to become the centerpiece of an event. Its journey to the concert hall reflects a natural creature trying to survive in modern society. Purga / Purga Directed by. Antanas Skučas, Gintarė Valevičiūtė-Brazauskienė / animation / Lithuania / 2023 / 13 min. Winter, 1942. Laptev Sea. Trofimovsk Island, surrounded by harsh Arctic nature, with exiles trying to survive at any cost in the background. Thousands of people were deported here by the Soviet authorities from the occupied Baltic States, Finland, Ukraine and elsewhere. Violence, cruelty, the daily life of the deportees and their struggle to survive as human beings in a wild land. Isolated from the land and the elements, here man is confronted with a merciless, unforgiving nature - every day in the face of its grandeur becomes a confrontation with death. All the experiences depicted in the film are based on the enduring memory of the survivors. The Trip Dir. Rimantas Oičenka / documentary / Lithuania / 2022 / 25 min. 1975 Klaipėda port, Lithuanian SSR. The crew of the ship Nemunėlis say goodbye to their wives and embark on a five-month voyage fishing in the Atlantic Ocean off the west coast of the African continent. Although the ship is thousands of kilometres away from the Iron Curtain, its shadow follows the fishermen.