Dear Spectators! It’s tomorrow, that is, Sunday, May 26, the day we’ve been waiting for all year. We can finally write that in a couple of hours we will officially start the 64th Krakow Film Festival!
During the eight-day film marathon, you will be able to see, among other films, located in sections of the: “As If In a Mirror”, “Ilumination”, “Konkurs polski”, “Kids&Youth Fest”, “Sound of Musić”, “Jacek Petrycki retrospective”, or “Focus on Romania”. The Krakow Film Festival is an opportunity to see films not only of Polish production, but also; Romanian; Ukrainian; Greek; French; German, as well as Norwegian.
Below is a small download of what to see on the first day of the festival!
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I Am the Creation of Fiction, dir. Arkadiusz Bartosiak (Kino Kijów, 18:00)
‘I have achieved all I wanted in life’, says Andrzej Seweryn, who then grabs us on a dynamic journey through successive professional challenges, which he still takes up with youthful fervour. The camera becomes his everyday companion helping us to see from up close all the emotions as they arise.
KFF TALKS: AI. Ugly, Dirty and Bad (Potocki Palace 1, 16:00-17:30) On the one hand, it is marketed as salvation from earthly trivialities, a facilitator of scientific reasoning and a catalyst of artistic efforts. On the other, as a destructive force hiding the machinations of the big capital under an attractive interface. What to think about artificial intelligence? Our special guests representing a variety of creative endeavours – literature, music and astronomy – will speak about it. All of them have their own concerns and hopes related to the increasing presence of AI. Are they different or similar? Or, possibly, when exploring this invention’s benefits and costs only, what is overlooked is its most intriguing aspect – separate, ‘inhumane’ sensitivity?
DON’T_FORGET
Retro Cartoons. Family screening (Kino Kijów, 12:00) A set of 6 episodes of the animated series ‘Enchanted Pencil’ produced by the Se-Ma-For Film Studio in Łódź in 1964-1977 and later digitised by FINA
75th Anniversary of the WFO Educational Film Studio (Kino Agrafka, 15:00) With 4500 films, over 1200 Polish and international awards, and a prestigious place in the history of cinematography, it’s hard to imagine Polish documentary filmmaking without the involvement of the WFO Film Studio in Łódź. It was there that masters such as Wojciech Wiszniewski, Bogdan Dziworski, Piotr Szulkin, Jacek Bławut, and Grzegorz Królikiewicz created their works. The celebrations of the WFO Film Studio’s 75th anniversary during the 64th Krakow Film Festival are a unique opportunity to see seven exceptional films created in the Łódź-based studio on the big screen.
Cyborg Generation, dir. Miguel Morillo Vega (Q&A, Kino Paradox, 14:00) The sense of sight, hearing, taste, smell and touch make the apparatus bestowed upon us by evolution. We navigate the world of senses using the five coordinates listed above. Science and technology propose to expand this set by additional dimensions, which are already employed by the explorers of new territories.
The Gospel according to Ciretta, dir. Caroline von der Tank (Q&A, Kino Mikro, 16:00) Ciretta lives in the streets of old Naples, primarily from theft and prostitution. He is also a street singer and a faithful adherent of the local Virgin Mary cult. In his company, we visit places where plebeian religiousness merges with cheerfulness and human solidarity.
| WORTH_SEEING 13:30, Kino Pod Baranam Red Room, Blues Run the Game: the Strange Tale of Jackson C. Frank, dir. Damien Aimé Dupont 14:00, Kino Kijów, Johatsu – Into Thin Air, dir. Andreas Hartmann, Arata Mori 18:00, Kino Paradox, Geographies of Solitude, dir. Jacyuelyn Mills |
On the festival’s website you will find a list of all meetings and Q&As.
On ours is also a map of the most important festival venues and a list of partner cafes and restaurants. We would like to remind you that you can get a discount with Accreditation, you should show it before ordering. We invite you to share your impressions on our Facebook group.
We would like to remind you about the possibility of voting for the best films. The poll includes all films qualified for the competitions of the 64th Krakow Film Festival.
We encourage you to download zero tickets before the screenings. Free tickets can be downloaded on the site after logging into My KFF. Just go to the “Program” tab and using the filters search for the film you are interested in. Free tickets can also be picked up at cinema box offices after showing accreditation no later than 15 minutes before the start of the screening.
Program of screenings and accompanying events | Program of KFF Industry events.