European Film Forum Scanorama for the 12th will take place in November in the four biggest cities of Lithuania (Vilnius, Kaunas, Klaipeda and Siauliai), providing some of the most distinctive cultural events of the autumn in Lithuania. Scanorama systematically presents European cinematography by combining modern and classical films, cinema heritage, retrospectives, underlying important events, and focusing on interesting personalities. The process of selecting the films for the programme seeks to include not only professionalism and innovative forms, but also ideas, creativeness and intuitive spirituality, in order to explore and protect respectable values. In a year 2014, retrospective of a Greek cinema master Theodoros Angelopoulos and a focus on British filmmaker Jonna Hogg will be organzed. As every year, Scanorama’s programme will be based on European production. Scanorama will organize a traditional competition programme for young filmmakers “New Baltic Cinema” and an industry event which is dedicated to young filmmakers and cinema professionals. The most significant themes of this year’s festival are the following: social problems, tolerance, relationship between an individual and society, political issues and. Works of well-known cinema masters as well as the debut films of young directors will be presented in the programme. The man objective of this year’s edition is to outreach older people and those who support and believe in social responsibility. We seek to build greater curiosity about European films nowadays and their roots. The expected results are an increase of the audience, growing knowledge on film history, a rise of social awareness and a higher film literacy among the audience.