We will not meet this year below the Wawel Castle at the open-air “Sound of Music” cinema, but it doesn’t mean that the 60th Krakow Film Festival will miss out on music. It will be loud and very diverse! In our programme you will find screenings of the most interesting music documentaries and meetings with the filmmakers behind them, as well as a concert, a DJ set and Music Video Night. All events will be transmitted on the festival’s website and social media.
Music motifs in the programme
Nine music documentaries will compete in DocFilmMusic competition where we will hear rock, klezmer, classical music, country from East Germany and African jazz performed by protagonists including a talented musician sentenced to prison for manslaughter, a bard from a German mine, an eccentric artist from Israel, an autistic genius from Korea, a musical prodigy from India and a band of Holocaust survivors.
Documentaries in the competition will be assessed by a superb international jury consisting of Stephen Nomura Schible, Rachel Leah Jones and Leszek Możdżer.
Music motifs will also appear in festival films presented in other sections: “On the Top Tyrryry” (Polish Documentary Panorama), “Just Don’t Sing” (Polish Documentary Panorama), “Tigress of Menopause” (National Competition), “Winter Journey” (Focus on Denmark) or live action “Los Bengalas” (Short Film Competition).
Na Górze Tyrryry, reż. Renata Kijowska 
“Podróż zimowa”, reż Anders Østergaard 
Wystarczy nie śpiewać, reż. Jędrzej Michalak 
Industry Party – DJ Edee Dee 
Noc na Kazimierzu | Kukurba&Słowiński Project 
Los Bengalas, reż. David Valero Simón 
Tygrysice menopauzy, reż. Henryk Dederko 
Music Video Night
Night in Kazimierz | Kukurba&Słowiński Project
Each year during the festival Wednesday evening is reserved for a crazy Night in Kazimierz, which always attracts a huge dancing crowd to our partner club – Alchemia. We couldn’t miss it in the online version. To celebrate the festival’s diamond jubilee especially for us Kukurba&Słowiński Project will take the stage! Tomasz Kukurba, an artist recognised in Poland and abroad, frontman in a band Kroke, violist, author of characteristic vocalises, decided to join forces with Stanisław Słowiński – one of the most sought-after jazz violinist of the young generation – and create a programme which is a fusion of two remarkably colourful and diverse music worlds.
The partners of the concert are ARTE in Polish and Alchemia.
Night in Kazimierz online | Wednesday, June 3, 9 pm | free event
Live stream on Krakow Film Festival Facebook profile and on Krakow Film Foundation YouTube channel
Music videos for the festival were selected this year by a music critic Wojciech Sawicki aka DJ Carpigiani. The audience will see original, visually enticing and perfectly directed music videos from last two years. Our selector included in his choices various perspectives and tried to find videos that celebrate good fun, show diversity, use interesting means of expression, incorporate unusual shooting techniques and are superbly edited. He selected low-budget productions as well as glamorous, artistic, hedonistic and also socially engaged ones.
Music Video Night | Thursday, June 4, 10 pm | 120′ | get free tickets on www.krakowfilmfestival.pl
Industry Party | DJ Edee Dee
On Friday first festival, KFF Industry and DocLabPoland awards will be announced. After the gala we’d like to invite everyone to Industry Party. For the first time DJ Edee Dee will perform online; he’s a turntablist, MC and producer from Krakow who’s been spinning records for 20 years. He grew up on hip-hop and old-school electronic music and at some point even cooperated with jazzmen. He performed at various music festivals and wrote music for theatre plays. He’s been and official KFF DJ for numerous seasons.
Industry Party online | Friday, June 5, 9.45 pm | free event
Live stream on Krakow Film Festival Facebook profile and on Krakow Film Foundation YouTube channel