We have good news for all of you, who can’t come to Krakow for the festival. Selected movies will be available on TVP2, TVP Kultura and on the Internet.
The 52nd Krakow Film Festival will run from Monday, 28 May. We have good news for all of you, who can’t come to Krakow for the festival. Selected movies will be available on TVP2, TVP Kultura and on the Internet.
On the day of its world premiere and right after the screening in Krakow, TVP 2 audience will have an opportunity to watch Maria Zmarz-Koczanowicz’s documentary „Vera Gran”, in which the director follows Agata Tuszynska’s investigation, which lasted for one year and a half, and focuses on life of a talented Jewish female singer accused of collaboration with the Gestapo. The film will be screened on TVP 2, on 29 May at 10.55 p.m., as part of the cycle “The world without fiction”.
On the same day at 7.35 p.m., TVP 2 will show the premiere screening of a documentary “Samosiuk. The Independent Film Republic” directed by Adam Lewandowski. The film tells a story of Zygmunt Samosiuk – the outstanding cinematographer, who worked with Andrzej Wajda, Janusz Majewski and Jerzy Kawalerowicz.
On 28 May, TVP Kultura will also invite the audience to watch documentaries that compete in this year’s National Competition and International Documentary Competition. Please find below the broadcast schedule:
28.05, 6:50 p.m. Riding for Jesus, dir. Sabrina Varani, Italy
29.05, 6:55 p.m. Survive Afghanistan, dir. Małgorzata Imielska, Poland
30.05, 6:55 p.m. Dad Went Fishing, dir. Grzegorz Pacek, Poland
31.05, 6.40 p.m. Vera Gran, dir. Maria Zmarz-Koczanowicz, Poland
01.06, 6:55 p.m. Wild Currants, dir. Leo Kantor, Poland
What is more, on the opening day, 28 May, twelve carefully selected movies straight from the festival programme will be available on the Internet. You can watch them on Kinoplex.gazeta.pl in VOD system.
In the Internet programme of the 52nd Krakow Film Festival, we will see documentaries, as well as short films. Among the documentaries to be available online are: having its premiere screening in Europe “The Flat”, directed by Arnon Goldfinger, which competes in the International Documentary Competition, and “Last Chapter. Goodbye Nicaragua” by Peter Torbiörnsson , documentarian and journalist, this year’s Jury member, whose last film is his first effort to go behind the scenes and investigate an assassination attempt that took place 30 years ago. “The Brussels Business” will take us to the world of powerful politics and allow us to travel across the hardly exposed Brussels corridors and halls, in order to explore a lobbying machine in the European Union. Examples of feature films, which are no doubt worth seeing, are: “Baggage”, return to the lately forgotten last Balkan War, directed by Danis Tanović, the Oscar winner for “No Man’s Land”; and a French movie “Sit, Roll Over, Play Dead” that uses black humour to talk about an obligatory parenthood duty to be fulfilled straight after the wedding. There is also wide range of Polish films in the festival programme.
The full list of movies available on the Internet presents as follows:
- Anda Union From The Steppes To The City, dir. Tim Pearce, Sophie Lascelles, Marc Tiley, UK
- Basia from Podlachia, dir. Aleksander Dembski, Poland
- Dr Character Presents II, dir. Piotr Dumała, Poland
- The Whistle, dir. Grzegorz Zariczny, Poland
- We Will Be Happy One Day, dir. Paweł Wysoczański, Poland
- The Flat, dir. Arnold Goldfinger, Israel
- Baggage, dir. Danis Tanović, Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Sit, Roll Over, Play Dead, dir. Edgard F. Grima, France
- The Brussels Business, dir. Friedrich Moser, Matthieu Lietaert, Austria/Belgium
- Solar Eclipse, dir. Martin Mareček, Czech Republic
- Last Chapter. Goodbye Nicaragua, dir. Peter Torbiörnsson, Spain/Sweden
- Summer Growing Up, dir. Blaise Harrison, France
In addition, the organizers will facilitate the festival daily chronicle, available on www.portalfilmowy.pl and www.krakowfilmfestival.pl. It will consist of the most important festival news reviews and interviews with festival guests.
The Closing Ceremony will be available to watch online at the festival’s website. The event will start on 3 June at 6.00 p.m.