Films awarded at the 64th Krakow Film Festival
21 films
An Orange from Jaffa
dir. Mohammed Almughanni
fab2023
A few kilometres from Jerusalem, the Hizma checkpoint. There has been tension here for decades. Mohammed, a young Palestinian with a temporary Polish identity card, tries to get through the Israeli checkpoint. A succession of drivers refuse to give him a lift. Farouk, a taxi driver agrees.
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Awards:Special Award
A Year in the Life of the Country (Rok z życia kraju)
dir. Tomasz Wolski
dok2024
Martial law, which was imposed in Poland on 13 December 1981, targeted the Solidarity movement, but it had other faces, too. On the basis of exclusively archival footage, the film explores the backstage of the past events. It undermines the mythicised image of Polish society as a victim of the system.
Read moreAwards:Silver Horn
Buzz of the Earth (Bzukot Země)
dir. Greta Stocklassa
fab2023
What if Hrabal and Forman could sit at the same table to discuss a space mission? Czech humour accompanies the biggest challenge for earthlings represented by a group of scientists and a female citizen, who was entered in the competition by her children. Everything may happen during this discussion. We are aliens after all.
Read moreAwards:Special Award
Comme Des Cowboys
dir. Julia Sadowska
fab2024
Can one’s adolescent love which ended with separation flourish again after years? Julita and Stacy parted ways, but now they meet again at a stud farm where Julita is working together with her mother. Stacy comes to participate in an important competition. The infatuation is back, but is it worth the reopening of old wounds?
Read moreAwards:Golden Hobby-Horse
Dark Cloud Memories (GiUkEun MukGuReum)
dir. Seung-hee Jung
anim2024
In this futuristic vision of the world, memories are recorded in a virtual cloud. One day, the animation character loses all her images from the past, but she still believes she will be able to recover her memories. However, such messages as ‘Disk full. Buy a subscription. Battery low’ do not help the situation.
Read moreAwards:Silver Dragon
Diamond Beauty
dir. Anna Korom
fab2023
Maria is addicted to plastic surgeries. Successive augmentations do not satisfy her and she wants new ones. Her nose, lips or facial fillers are never perfect. Now, she is looking forward to the opportunity of a date with her former love. But where to find money if she is drowning in debt?
Read moreAwards:Silver Dragon
Don Benjamín
dir. Ivan Zahínos
dok2024
An unpretentious and poetic journey through a magical, endangered region of the Amazon rainforest in Bolivia. People living in the jungle are trying to restore the original state of the areas stripped bare of any trees.
Read moreAwards:Silver Dragon
Everything Needs to Live [PL audio description] (Wszystko ma żyć)
dir. Tetiana Dorodnitsyna, Andrii Lytvynenko
dok2024
Whoever saves one life, saves the entire world – that’s the motto of Anna, the strongest woman in the world, who loves animals. After Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Anna joined by a group of volunteers are doing everything possible to save as many wounded and abandoned animals as they can in these difficult days.
Read moreIntercepted (Przechwycone)
dir. Oksana Karpovych
dok2024
What are Russian soldiers talking about when they call their families from the front? The phone conversations recorded by the Ukrainian secret service in the first six months of the war reveal a completely different picture than the one created by the Kremlin propaganda. When set against post-apocalyptic views, they make a paralysing study of enslavement and conformism.
Read moreAwards:Silver Horn / Special Award
Kawauso
dir. Akihito Izuhara
anim2023
A young girl and a river otter in an empty town do not develop into a story of great friendship between a human being and an animal. The protagonists are trying to establish some contact but they are total strangers. The starting point for this contemplative animation is the extinction of the river otter in Japan.
Read moreAwards:Golden Dragon
Koka
dir. Aliaksandr Tsymbaliuk
dok2024
On the coast of the Bering Sea, where time has stopped, a father and son make a living by fishing. They live in austere, almost ascetic conditions, where the rhythm of life is determined by successive fishing trips.
Read moreAwards:Special Award
Of Caravan and The Dogs (Of Caravan And The Dogs)
dir. Askold Kurov, Anonymous 1
dok2024
In Russia, those who hail the truth are considered foreign intelligence agents. One example is journalists of Novaya Gazeta, which received the Nobel Peace Prize six months before the invasion of Ukraine. How to maintain independence when the screws are being put on even harder?
Read moreAwards:Golden Horn
Omar and Cedric: If This Ever Gets Weird
dir. Nicolas Jack Davies
dok2023
This film has the dynamics of progressive rock, the preferred genre of the cult American band Mars Volta for over twenty years. The film edited out of hundreds of hours of archival footage is a painfully honest portrayal of friendship, successes, transformations and failures.
Read moreAwards:Special Award
Only Day And Night [PL audio description] (Tylko dzień i noc)
dir. Grzegorz Brzozowski
dok2024
In the pandemic, during the strict lockdown period, human contacts were limited. Online conversations became the most common way of communication. The director employed them to talk to people stuck alone at home, just like him. What were they afraid of? How were they doing?
Read moreOn the 8th Day (Au 8ème Jour)
dir. Agathe Sénéchal, Alicia Massez, Elise Debruyne, Flavie Carin, Théo Duhautois
anim2023
Seven days were needed to create the world, but one day was enough to destroy everything. The authors of this animated film invite the viewers to a beautiful land, woven of colourful yarn, full of animals and plants. Imperceptibly, darkness and gloom creep into this ideal world, gradually engulfing the fauna and flora.
Read moreAwards:Special Mention
Silent Trees (Drzewa milczą)
dir. Agnieszka Zwiefka
dok2024
Runa, a 16-year-old Kurdish girl, had escaped from Iraq to avoid the attacks of ISIS and, together with her family, became stuck on the Polish-Belorussian border. Eventually, she managed to reach Poland, where she needed to grow up at an accelerated speed. Thanks to her animated drawings, the audience can discover more about her.
Read moreAwards:Golden Hobby-Horse / Wyróżnienia
Teaches of Peaches
dir. Philipp Fussenegger, Judy Landkammer
dok2024
Peaches, who is a performer, provoker and a sassy lady, does not slow down in the sixth decade of her life. To the contrary, her tour celebrating the 20th anniversary of her album ‘Teaches of Peaches’ was an explosion of creativity. For the filmmakers, it was an opportunity to find out more about this rebellious artist, an icon of feminism and queer culture. Age rated: 18+
Read moreAwards:Golden Heynal
There Will Be No Other End (Innego końca nie będzie)
dir. Piotr Milczarek
anim2024
A depressing vision in which the end of the world is not spectacular and may arrive unnoticed. Humans are to blame for the failure – their stupidity, pride, thoughtlessness, lack of empathy and irresponsibility. A satire on contemporary society in five acts, which reveals human faults and weaknesses in a humorous way.
Read moreAwards:Golden Hobby-Horse
The Miracle (Cud)
dir. Ewa Borysewicz
fab2024
The life of a young man, a hedonist and a sinner, is turned upside down when his wife becomes pregnant. The protagonist tries to escape, but it does not bring him any comfort. To the contrary, it complicates his life even more. Combining animation with acting, the film borders on experimental cinema.
Read moreAwards:Special Mention / Special Award
The 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.
Read moreAwards:Special Mention
Tiger Soup (Zupa z tygrysa)
dir. Kacper Świtalski
dok2023
A clash of grey communist reality with the American dream. A nostalgic story of Staś, a welder, who left Poland in the 1970s to start working in the biggest and oldest travelling circus in the world.
Read moreAwards:Golden Hobby-Horse
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