[6] In 2016, at the Vilnius International Film Festival (Kino Pavasaris), Bartaitė garnered critical acclaim and earned her nomination for Best Lithuanian Actress for the role in Peace to Us in Our Dreams.
[7] It is a story about young girl Jana, played by Bartaitė, who after twenty-five years of exile in Paris returns to Vilnius, wanting to find the lake that Paulius, her first lover, called "Walden".
The last film Bartaitė worked on is Our Men (Mon Légionnaire) directed and co-written by Rachel Lang, with a cast that includes Louis Garrel, Camille Cottin, and Alexander Kuznetsov.
She created a character called Nika, a woman in her early twenties, who leaves Ukraine to follow her boyfriend Vlad, a young soldier based in a military camp in Corsica.
[5] She was cycling home during a rainy evening, when an intoxicated driver, who was speeding twice over the limit at 123 km/h (76 mph), hit Bartaitė's bike from the back and instantly killed her.