The programme will include the recent productions of this year’s judges of the Documentary Competition: Jacek Bławut, Truls Lie, Peter Torbiörnsson and Tomasz Wolski.
The 52. Krakow Film Festival is due to start on Monday, the 28th of May. Our programme will include the recent productions of this year’s judges of the Documentary Competition: Jacek Bławut, Truls Lie, Peter Torbiörnsson and Tomasz Wolski.
Jacek Bławut, a director and cameraman, author of numerous documentaries, including the ones rewarded in Cracow Krakow: ,,Country of Birth’’, ,,Born Dead’’ and ,,The Warrior’’, will be back at the festival with his latest production, ,,The Virtual War’’ and will chair the judging panel of the international Documentary Competition. We will also be able to see his last film, acclaimed ,,The Documentary Star Wars’’, included in the outside of the main competition section. Through the eye of the director and his camera we will have the opportunity to get familiar with the environment of the international players, for whom the battle they fight on the flight simulators is more real then reality, to which they reluctantly come back from the territory of the sky-high clashes. This screening will be one of the few occasions to see the film on a big screen and is, as declared by the director, his goodbye to the documentary film.
Within the same section, Krakow Documentary Premieres, we will show ’’Jørgen Leth. The Seduced’’ by Truls Lie, a director and editor-in-chief of the DOX magazine, who in his latest documentary portrays a figure of a controversial Danish poet, a filmmaker and an author of the famous ,,Erotic Man’’. In the film, This accused of immorality scandalist tells in the film about his art, drawn from the chaos of the exotic island of Haiti, set after the catastrophic earthquake in 2010, and about his attraction to local women. Krakow is the place of the film’s world premiere.
In the Festival Award Winners section we will see the film of Peter Torbiörnsson, correspondent of Swedish media, a director, journalist and author of over 20 documentary films, mostly concerning Latin America, Africa, Bosnia and Sweden. In ’’Goodbye, Nicaragua’’ he comes back to his reveals the story of a person indirectly responsible for the attack and death of 7 people.
Within the framework of the Panorama of Polish Film we will be able to see ’’The Palace’’ by Tomasz Wolski. The double Audience Award winner at the Krakow Film Festival for ’’Goldfish’’ and ’’Lucky People’’ will be back with a Warsaw film, in which he points his camera at the Palace of Culture and Science, the hated reminiscence of Stalinism, and it’s usually hidden corners.. The story of the huge building in the center of the city will become both an allegory of Poland’s latest history and an excuse to pose questions about one’s ability to adapt the communist past to the realities of today’s capitalism.
During the festival we will also see a film distributed by the Documentary Competition judge, Hedva Goldschmidt, ’’Torn Apart’’, dealing with the subject of a man of double national and religious identity, as well as ’’Kyiv from dawn to dusk’’, one of five parts of a group collaboration in which young filmmakers describe big cities. The film was created under the artistic supervision of Jacek Bławut, Marcel Łoziński and Vita Żelakeviciute.