Gytis Lukšas (born 16 May 1946 in Kaunas) is a Lithuanian film director.
After graduating from the Institute of Cinematography in Moscow in 1971, he worked in a Lithuanian film studio from 1971 to 1991.
1991-2017 Chairman of the Lithuanian Cinematographers' Union. In June 2012, in Copenhagen, he was elected to the Executive Committee of the Federation of European Film Directors (FERA)[1] (the first representative of the Baltic States on the FERA Executive Committee).
He is a consistent screenwriter of Lithuanian literature. His films are characterised by a poetic worldview. Co-wrote the screenplays for some of his films[2].
His first films were the novella "Telephone" in the TV film "Merry Tales" (1973) and the TV film "Zvangutis" (1974, based on the novel by K. Sāja). The film "Virto ąžuolai" (1976, based on J. Baltušis) stood out for its high passions, vivid and controversial portrayal of a woman, unusual for Lithuanian cinema. The lyrical film Autumn of My Childhood (1977, based on J. Aputis), on the theme of everyday life in the Soviet countryside, is related to the more sombre Summer Ends in Autumn (1982, script by R. Granauskas), a film with a more despairing and tired character. The feature film The English Waltz (1982) is a screen adaptation of the play Joya by the English writer D. Golsworthy. The story of an English family is presented with light irony and moral problems are explored. The musical TV film "Vakar ir visados" (1984), showing Lithuanian customs, rituals and songs, recreates the spiritual identity of the nation. The film has been used as a teaching tool at the Sorbonne and other universities. The films "The Snake's Gaze" (1990, based on S. T. Kondrota), "Passengers of the Earth" (1991, Lagove Prize of the Central and Eastern European Film Festival in 1993), "Moon Lithuania" (1997, based on S. Šalteny) develop themes of the nation's dramatic history and personal choice. The 2009 film Duburys (based on the novel by Romualdas Granauskas) depicts the story of a single life, a film about the fate of a man, a man broken by the Soviet system, and a dramatic story of love in Soviet-era Lithuania. Premiered at the Montreal World Film Festival (2009),
