Short but Daily: festival favourites presents the five short films that have travelled the most to international film festivals in the last five years. The films featured at Cannes, Venice, Annecy, Clermont-Ferrand, Vienna and Dresden show the originality of Lithuanian short film and the distinctive style of their creators. Each film tells a unique, but at the same time universal story and invites us to look at the inner strength of the characters in the face of life's challenges. The films in the programme are full of nostalgia, exploring the complexity of family relationships, full of longing for closeness, alienation and unspoken expectations that hinder acceptance of one another. The films have won the 2018-2023 Festival Favourite award, which is given annually by Lithuanian Shorts to the Lithuanian short film that has travelled to the most film festivals in a year. The programme "Short but a Day: festival favourites" is part of the "Short but a Day" series of events organised by Lithuanian Shorts. "Short but a Day" is dedicated to the International Short Film Day on 21 December and has been celebrated in Lithuania since 2017. 83 min. Censored: N-13 Films with English subtitles. In the programme you will see: LAST DAY dir. Klaudija Matvejevaitė-Duškina, Lithuania, 2017, feature, 24 min. How would you feel if you knew the exact date of your death? There comes a time when everyone can find out. In an old house in Vilnius lives the Beloglazov family - Kolia, Lena, their daughter Sonia and teenage son Igor. Today is the day that fourteen-year-old Igor is to die. Everyone in the family knows this and tries to cope with the depressing wait in their own way. JOURNAL dir. Skirmanta Jakaitė, Lithuania, 2018, animated, 11 min. We live in the same house, but in different apartments, jobs, situations, beliefs, visions, each of us in our own personal compartment, deceiving ourselves that the world is one and that it exists. This film is about the other side of life - the frightening, unknown side that we never fully grasp, but we know is somewhere close, very close. COLLECTIVE GARDENS directed by. Vytautas Katkus, Lithuania, 2019, feature, 15 min. This is a story about a chilling father-son relationship that finally perishes in a whirlpool of indifference. TECHNO, MAMA directed by. Saulius Baradinskas, Lithuania, 2021, feature, 18 min. Nikita loves listening to techno and dreams of going to Berlin to visit the famous Berghain club. His mother Irena doesn't yet know about her son's dreams, so their expectations will soon collide. LEAVES directed by. Vytautas Katkus, Lithuania, 2022, feature, 15 min. A hot summer day. The cherry boughs above the garden house are full of ripe berries, swaying from the wind and weight. In the early days of retirement, a retired dad calls his son to help him pick cherries. Dad tries not to rush anywhere, he wants to spend as much time as possible with his son, leaving the cherries in the background. As they work and sit in silence, they realise that they have not made the most of their 30 years together. The berries help them to return to their first memories and to stay together longer, as if starting all over again.