PREMIERE “MES UZ.. LIETUVA!”

Celebration in a country of basketball. Lithuania, probably the only country in the world where basketball is routinely described as a religion, hosts the most important basketball event of the year – the European basketball championship or EuroBasket 2011. The biggest nation’s pride, Lithuania’s national basketball team has a long winning tradition. The entire Lithuania is waiting only for the gold. However the team’s star player Linas Kleiza has suffered a serious injury and will not be playing for the championship. The players attempt to compensate the absence of the leader with a dedicated coach, who works hard to encourage believing in team spirit, a will to win, and securing a place at the London Olympics. The documentary viewers will follow the intense preparation for EuroBasket 2011 with exclusive footage from the locker room and will witness all the challenges encountered by the players in sometimes dramatic…

Premiere 31 of May in all Forum cinemas (Vilnius, Kaunas, Klaipeda, Sauliai, Panevezys) at 19:00. http://www.forumcinemas.lt