The hits of international film festivals at the 56th Krakow Film Festival.
“Festival Award Winners” – the series includes the films which have already been appreciated and awarded at prestigious documentary and short film festivals around the world. It is a perfect opportunity to catch up and watch the most famous films of the year.
The winner of this year’s Academy Award, Benjamin Cleary, will show his latest film in Krakow, “Stutterer,” about finding courage in oneself to overcome the fear caused by the speech disorder. In addition, the director will sit on the jury of the short film competition and will be the guest of the Critical Morning on June 3.
Two sons of two Nazi criminals struggle with the shadows of their fathers in the places where the crimes were committed, but also in places of their childhood, among others, in Krakow in the Wawel castle (“My Nazi Legacy: What Our Fathers Did”, dir. David Evans). Two “Brothers” from the film by Wojciech Staroń go hand in hand through their entire turbulent lives, supporting one another and they are born again after every catastrophe just like a phoenix from the ashes. A Russian boy undergoes all possible therapies which are supposed to cure his autism, and these treatments, shown in “Don Juan” by Jerzy Śladkowski, are watched by the camera of Wojciech Staroń, this time working as a cameraman. Complicated family relationships are observed in the film “The Closer We Get” (dir. Karen Guthrie), and in the film “Dead Slow Ahead” (dir. Mauro Herce) we traverse oceans on a freight ship. In “Raving Iran,” the director Susanne Regina Meures sets out on a dangerous journey through the underground techno music scene in Iran. Patrice Laliberté, in his film “Overpass,” defies stereotypes, telling a tale about an adolescent hooligan-rebel.
“Do not cry, your doll has set out on a journey, but she will write letters to you,” as allegedly said Franz Kafka, wanting to console a little girl who had lost her favourite doll. On the basis of this anecdote, the film “Madam Black,” directed by Ivan Barge, was made. The fates of the sexy piano owner, a very accidental driver, an acrobat with suicidal inclinations and an elderly couple and several parachute jumpers are, in turn, the protagonists of the Estonian animated film “Piano” (dir. Kaspar Jancis). Crazy, full of colours and erotic sensations and sounds, the animated film “Ivan’s Need” (dir. Veronica L. Montaño, Manuela Leuenberger, Lukas Suter) which tracks the fetishes of the eponymous character.
The programme:
MON|30.05 KINO POD BARANAMI 11:30 FRI| 03.06 AGRAFKA 18:00
“Moje nazistowskie dziedzictwo,” dir. David Evans, (Great Britain) 92’ D
MON| 30.05 AGRAFKA 18:00 THURS| 02.06 KINO POD BARANAMI 11:30
“Madam Black,” dir. Ivan Barge, (New Zealand) 11’ F
“Dead Slow Ahead,” dir. Mauro Herce, (Spain, France) 74’ D
MON| 30.05 KINO POD BARANAMI 19:00 WED| 01.06 AGRAFKA 18:00
“Overpass,” dir. Patrice Laliberté, (Canada) 19’ F
“Brothers,” dir. Wojciech Staroń, (Poland) 71’D
TUE|31.05 KINO POD BARANAMI 11:30 THURS| 02.06 AGRAFKA 18:00
“Stutterer,” dir. Benjamin Cleary, (Great Britain, Ireland) 13’ F
“Don Juan,” dir. Jerzy Śladkowski, (Sweden, Finland) 92’ D
TUE|31.05 AGRAFKA 18:00 FRI| 03.06 KINO POD BARANAMI 11:30
“”Ivan’s Needs,” dir. Veronica L. Montaño, Manuela Leuenberger, Lukas Suter, (Switzerland) 6’ A
The Closer We Get, dir. Karen Guthrie, (Great Britain) 88’ D
THURS| 02.06 KINO POD BARANAMI 21:00 SAT| 04.06 KINO POD BARANAMI 15:30
“Piano,” dir. Kaspar Jancis, (Estonia) 10’ A
“Raving Iran,” dir..Susanne Regina Meures, (Switzerland) 84’ D