Lithuanian filmmaker known for austere, dialogue‑sparse, long‑take films; Few Of Us (1996) is a notable example shot in Siberia.

Few Of Us (Lontano Da Dio Lontano Dagli Uomini) was presented at Cannes in the Un Certain Regard sidebar and is characterised in reviews by long takes, minimal dialogue and a Siberian setting.

Reviews praise Sharunas Bartas' Few Of Us (1996) as a bold, stoic exercise in slow cinema. The film is noted for long takes, near absence of dialogue, ritual gestures and a Siberian setting. Responses range from ecstatic admiration to reserved appreciation.

For:Fans of slow, art‑house cinema; viewers who appreciate long takes, minimal dialogue and contemplative imagery.

 Among the most intense, bold, neuronally destabilizing, and subliminally cathartic works presented in the past decade (and millennium), with modest room for doubt, is the fifth feature film resulting from the arduous work of the young Lithuanian filmmaker Sharunas Bartas.

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 A quirky Eastern from South Siberia, shot among the Sayan Mountains by the great Lithuanian master Šarunas Bartas, clad in only images and no dialogue, set among what would be the local natives, the Tofalari, somewhat akin to a Native American tribe and among whom arrives a mysterious woman who is very tough, very well put together but also very troubled, it is unclear what she is doing there or what her tasks or intentions are;

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