Cinema representatives don’t understand the government’s decision: we’ll see if we get up alive

Gintaras Plytnikas, director of Lithuanian film company Forum Cinemas, said authorities should assess the situation slightly differently and take individual sectors into account when it comes to closures.

Once again, the government does not look at the segments, it does everything in a single cut, no matter where it is safe to be, where it is not, in its opinion, it is necessary to close all those socialist principles.

If we tell it to close, we will close because we have to follow the law, but none of our analytical studies of credible organizations have opened the eyes of the clergy that the cinema is generally the safest of all public places in the world because of its volume, high ventilation, and no one can ever catch the test, but no one listens to us.

Nowhere in the world have cinemas been like chimneys because they are technologically inaccessible. This is a place 8 times safer than the offices. But, unfortunately, what was done has not been read by anyone and it will seem that it closes us once again.

We’ll see if we get up alive or not, ”commented the head of Forum Cinemas in Delfi.

Raimundas Bilinskas, Marketing Manager at Multikino, assured that the cinema has been living in the closing climate for a long time, so it has been in the mood for that, and fewer and fewer people attend the screenings.

“There has been a marked decline since Wednesday.

Today is a state of war and somehow you have to wait and survive that time. If we have no other way, we are not prepared, then we all have to take a break from social contacts and wait. If the state contributes something, it will be easier for us, because it may be easier for small cinemas, they can get funding from municipalities, and commercial cinemas, larger, are in great danger because we do not generate lard during the summer and we have already eaten everything.

All the support is relevant to us now, because when the first cases appeared, people began to avoid meetings and events, and theaters were no exception. It can be said that the crisis has been coming to us since March and now we need all the support both to rent and to compensate for the downtime of employees, ”he said.

Vilma Levickaitė, director of the Delfi Skalvija cinema, also spoke about the fact that closures need to be considered based on the sector.

“I am not left with the feeling that there is still a chopped ax with those decisions to ban all sectors, all segments. I don’t know if there is any estimate of how many people get infected in movie theaters. I have not listened, I have not heard from colleagues.

I think we really provide great security, there are distances, everyone wears masks, few people enter. I think it would be more liberal to allow cultural organizations and people to decide for themselves whether or not to visit during this period. You want to be able to choose to provide the service.

“I think we still would have decided to close after Scanorama, because it just doesn’t make sense to work because so few people come,” he said.