Culture and art
11 films
Alice On & Off
dir. Isabela Tent
dok2024
For 10 years, the film author observed the life of the film character who as a teenager gave birth to a child from her relationship with a much older man. The film is a story of subsequent disappearances of Alice – a sensitive girl and an artist looking desperately for her own way and fleeing from her demons.
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Babylonia (Babilonia)
dir. Duda Gambogi
dok2024
It is a hot night in Cuba. During her long-awaited debut on the stage of the biggest drag show in the entire province of Artemisa, Elizabeth de Victória must confront all the difficulties that precede a live performance.
Read moreBaldiga - Unlocked Heart (Baldiga - Entsichertes Herz)
dir. Markus Stein
dok2024
In the 1980s, West Berlin was the European LGBT+ capital. Jürgen Baldiga, a photographer, poet and activist, became its co-founder and chronicler. The archival materials he left behind were used to tell a neurotic story about himself and the community living in the shadow of AIDS. Age rated: 18+
Read moreFlowers of Ukraine (Kwiaty Ukrainy)
dir. Adelina Borets
dok2024
On a flowery plot of land, in the middle of a block of flates in Kiev lives 67-year-old Natalia, who has been fighting for years against investors who would like to build another property in place of her house. And just when it seems that fighting the developers is the worst thing that happens to her, Russia's attack on Ukraine begins.
Read moreI Am the Creation of Fiction (Jestem postacią fikcyjną)
dir. Arkadiusz Bartosiak
dok2024
‘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.
Read moreI, Rosiński (Ja, Rosiński)
dir. Piotr Kielar
dok2024
Grzegorz Rosiński, one of the most renowned Polish comic strip creators and the author of drawings for the series ‘Thorgal’, has retired. But what does it mean for an artist to end his career? Rosiński keeps drawing and plans to leave the profession on his own rules only.
Read moreOuvidor
dir. Matias Borgström
dok2023
In Ouvidor, the largest art squat in Latin America, 120 artists from different countries resist constant eviction threats from a government with fascist tendencies in Brazil, while internal tensions are fueled by Red Bull's sponsorship of their Art Biennial.
Read moreThe Illustrated Woman (La mujer ilustrada)
dir. Isabel Herguera
anim2023
Ramia, Saadiya, Shubhashree and Samira are women with different experiences and dreams who meet at a henna tattoo workshop run by Isabel. Their stories in combination with the technique of collage and live henna tattoo design make a documentary animation which screams loud and clear for freedom and equality.
Read moreThe Masterpiece (La Gran Obra)
dir. Álex Lora
fab2024
Leo and Diana, a rich couple, bring a broken TV to a recycle point. They meet Salif and his son, two scrap dealers. Diana asks them to come to their house to get more objects. Once there, Leo looks at them collecting objects with mistrust, until they see the scrap dealers have something they want.
Read moreThe Power of Resistance (Siła oporu)
dir. Elżbieta Benkowska
fab2024
Olga’s political idealism and hopes for a better future are put to the hardest of tests. The authoritarian, omniscient communist authorities are determined to break down the actress when her father is in hospital fighting for his life, while her husband is in prison. Olga needs to make a choice.
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This Peculiar Day (Tento divný deň)
dir. Emilia Ondriasova
fab2023
Martin has it all: his own art gallery, an intelligent wife, a nice apartment and an organised and settled life. This may be the core of the problem - his everyday life is overwhelmed by all-encompassing boredom or, simply, the mid-life crisis. He decides to face it in the most mature way: by running away.
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