Titles of 64th KFF

List of already published titles qualified to participate in the 64th Krakow Film Festival.

Competitions

INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY COMPETITION

Presentation of the newest documentary films from all around the world. The winner of the Golden Horn Award is eligible to enter Oscar selection.

1489, dir. Shoghakat Vardanyan, Armenia, 76’, 2023
Baldiga – Unlocked Heart, dir. Markus Stein, Germany, 90’, 2024
The Andersson Brothers dir. Johanna Bernhardson, Sweden, Finland, 84’, 2024
Silent Trees, dir. Agnieszka Zwiefka, Poland, Germany, Denmark, 84’, 2024
Inheritance, dir. Matt Moyer, Amy Toensing, USA, 83’, 2024
The Gospel According to Ciretta, dir. Caroline von der Tann, Italy, 73’, 2024
Alice On & Off, dir. Isabela Tent, Romania, 84’, 2024
Monogamia, dir. Ohad Milstein, Israel, Germany, 73’, 2023
Of Caravan And The Dogs, dir. Askold Kurov, Anonymous, Germany, 89’, 2024
Intercepted, dir. Oksana Karpovych, Canada, France, Ukraine, 93’, 2024
A Year In the Life of the Country, dir. Tomasz Wolski, Poland, 85’, 2024
Son of the Mullah, dir. Nahid Persson, Sweden, 100’, 2023
Johatsu – Into Thin Air , dir. Andreas Hartmann, Arata Mori, Germany, Japan, 86’, 2024
Life Is Beautiful, dir. Mohamed Jabaly, Norway, 93’, 2023

NATIONAL COMPETITION

Medium- and Feature-length Documentaries:

Silent Trees, dir. Agnieszka Zwiefka, Poland, Germany, Denmark, 84’, 2024
I, Rosiński, dir. Piotr Kielar, Poland, 86’, 2024
I Am the Creation of Fiction, dir. Arkadiusz Bartosiak, Poland, 75’, 2024
Are You There?, dir. Xavery Deskur, Poland, 47’, 2023
Koka, dir. Aliaksandr Tsymbaliuk, Poland, 48’, 2024
Lili, dir. Sylwia Rosak, Poland, 73’, 2023
Otherland, dir. Piotr Wysocki, Poland, 76’, 2024
The Peter Plan, dir. Grzegorz Pacek, Poland, United Kingdom, 72’, 2024
Putin’s Playground, dir. Konrad Szołajski, Poland, Czechia, Bulgaria, Norway, Latvia, Germany, 91’, 2024
A Year In the Life of the Country, dir. Tomasz Wolski, Poland, 85’, 2024
Only Day And Night, dir. Grzegorz Brzozowski, Poland, 69’, 2024
Everything Needs to Live, dir. Tetiana Dorodnitsyna, Andrii Lytvynenko, Poland, Ukraine, 70’, 2024

Short Films:

Animated films:

Aha, dir. Paulina Jaklik, Poland, 8’, 2024
All My Fucking Superheroes, dir. Piotr Kabat, Poland, 12’, 2023
Codex, dir. Betina Bożek, Poland, 12’, 2024
Nutcracker Girl, dir. Michalina Musialik, Poland, 14’, 2023
And Don’t Call Me Crazy, dir. Dorota Skupniewicz, Poland, 13’, 2024
There Will Be No Other End, dir. Piotr Milczarek, Poland, 8’, 2024
Me, Monster, dir. Zofia Tomalska, Poland, 9’, 2024
Joko, dir. Izabela Plucińska, Poland, Czechia, Germany, 15’, 2024
Nabu, dir. Joanna Rusinek, Poland, 6’, 2023
Potatoes, dir. Marcin Podolec, Poland, 4’, 2023

Documentaries:

Needle, dir. Józef Gross, Poland, 30’, 2024
Submarine, dir. Oliwia Zakrzewska, Poland, 17’, 2024
Dustdir. Paweł Chorzępa, Poland, 28’, 2024
Do You Hear Me?, dir. Magdalena Sienicka, Poland, 17’, 2024
Crazy Love, dir. Martyna Peszko, Poland, 30’, 2023
In My Hands, dir. Igor Kuna, Poland, 7’, 2024
Debtors, dir. Andrzej Danis, Poland, 24’, 2023
Tiger Soup, dir. Kacper Świtalski, Poland, 36’, 2023

Fiction Films:

Comme Des Cowboys, dir. Julia Sadowska, Poland, 25’, 2024
The Miracle, dir. Ewa Borysewicz, Poland, 30’, 2024
Honey Bunny, dir. Gracjana Piechula, Poland, 24’, 2024
Here For You, dir. Cezary Orłowski, Poland, 20’, 2024
Ends and Beginnings, dir. Klaudia Fortuniak, Poland, 17’, 2024
The Mandala, dir. Mikołaj Janik, Poland, 25’, 2023
An Orange from Jaffa, dir. Mohammed Almughanni, Poland, France, 26’, 2023
From You, dir. Jędrzej Gorski, Poland, 15’, 2024
The Power of Resistance, dir. Elżbieta Benkowska, Poland, 30’, 2024
Stimulants & Empathogens, dir. Mateusz Pacewicz, Poland, 25’, 2024

INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM COMPETITION

The oldest competition of the Krakow Film Festival, where we present short films from all around the world: animations, fictions and documentaries up to 30 minutes.

List of documentary films qualified for the International Short Film Competition:

Autism Plays Itself, dir. Janet Harbord, United Kingdom, 18’, 2023
Babylonia / Babilonia, dir. Duda Gambogi, Cuba, Brazil, 23’, 2024
Fahnenflucht, dir. Emil Ahlhelm, Konradin Schuchter, Germany, 29’, 2023
A Good Mind Grows in Thorny Places, dir. Katarína Gramatová, Slovakia, 20’, 2023
Don Benjamin, dir. Ivan Zahínos, Spain, 29’, 2024
Amma’s Pride, dir. Shiva Krish, India, 20’, 2024
Emilio Barreto: Angels and Demons, dir. Cris Arana, Spain, 26’, 2024
Where Russia Ends, dir. Oleksiy Radynski, Ukraine, 25’, 2024
Submarine, dir. Oliwia Zakrzewska, Poland, 17’, 2024
Inside San Isidro, dir. Katherine Bisquet, Cuba, 28’, 2023
Blank Page Syndrome, dir. Jānis Ābele, Toms Šķēle, Latvia, 8’, 2024
Force and Courage, Rise and Decline of an Italian Football Club, dir. Francesco Bovara, Giovanni Merlini, Italy, 20’, 2023

List of animated films qualified for the International Short Film Competition:

Silent Panorama, dir. Nicolas Piret, Belgium, 5’, 2024
The Shadow Of Dawn, dir. Olga Stalev, Estonia, 15’ 2023
Ready, dir. Eirini Vianelli, Greece, Belgium, 11’, 2023
Me, Monster, dir. Zofia Tomalska, Poland, 9’, 2024
Joko, dir. Izabela Plucińska, Poland, Czechia, Germany, 15’, 2024
The Illustrated Woman, dir. Isabel Herguera, Spain, 8’, 2023
Moving Mountains, dir. Jessica Poon, Germany, 6’, 2024
The Car That Came Back From the Sea, dir. Jadwiga Kowalska, Switzerland, 11’, 2023
Three Birds, dir. Zarja Menart, Slovenia, Croatia, 8’, 2024
On the 8th Day, dir. Agathe Sénéchal, Alicia Massez, Elise Debruyne, Flavie Carin, Théo Duhautois, France, 8’, 2023
Dark Cloud Memories, dir. Seung-hee Jung, South Korea, 12’, 2024
Kawauso, dir. Akihito Izuhara, Japan, 15’, 2023

List of fiction films qualified for the International Short Film Competition:

Abel, dir. Dekel Berenson, Paul Wesley USA, United Kingdom, Mexico, 15’, 2024
Abraham, dir. Elnaz Ghaderpour, Reza Gamini, Iran, 14’, 2023
Buzz of the Earth, dir. Greta Stocklassa, Czechia, 29’, 2023
Red Emma, dir. Macha Ovtchinnikova, France, 14’, 2023
Diamond Beauty, dir. Anna Korom, Hungary, 30’, 2023
How to Skin a Cheetah, dir. Meghan O’Shaughnessy, Ireland, 20’, 2023
Captive, dir. Lika Nadir, Ukraine, France, 15’, 2023
Better This Way, dir. Emanuel Pârvu, Romania, 15’, 2023
Open Eyes, dir. Qi Zhang, China, 18’, 2023
Manual for a Divorce, dir. Peter Ghesquiere, Belgium, 12’, 2023
An Orange from Jaffa, dir. Mohammed Almughanni, Poland, France, 26’, 2023
Suisunday, dir. Tal Menkes, Israel, 12’, 2024
This Peculiar Day, dir. Emilia Ondriasova, Slovenia, 19’, 2023
Cry Me Through Hell, dir. Jae Yang, Taiwan, 29, 2023

DocFilmMusic COMPETITION

The exclusive competition for music documentary films from all around the world.

Abebe-Butterfly Song, dir. Rosie Jones, Australia, 98’, 2023
Berchidda Live – A Journey Into Time In Jazz Archive, dir. Gianfranco Cabiddu, Michele Mellara, Alessandro Rossi, Italy, 93’, 2023
Don Lewis And The Live Electronic Orchestra, dir. Ned Augustenborg, USA, 80’, 2023
Blues Run the Game: The Strange Life of Jackson C. Frank, dir. Damien Aimé Dupont, France, 84’, 2023
Joana Mallwitz – Momentum, dir.Günter Atteln, Germany, 88’, 2024
Omar and Cedric: If This Ever Gets Weird, dir. Nicolas Jack Davies, Germany, 127’, 2023
Stay Homas. The Band That Shouldn’t Exist, dir. Oriol Gispert, Nick Bolger, Ramon Balagué, Spain, 81’, 2024
Teaches of Peaches, dir. Philipp Fussenegger, Judy Landkammer, Germany, 102’, 2024

Non-competing series

DRAGON OF DRAGONS WINNER’S RETROSPECTIVE

The Dragon of Dragons Award for contributions to the development of world cinema is presented annually by the Program Council of the Krakow Film Foundation. In 2024, this award will go to a documentary filmmaker.

Retrospective of Jacek Petrycki’s films.

Microphone’s Test, dir. Marcel Łoziński, Poland 19′
Workshop Exercises, dir. Marcel Łoziński, Poland, 12’
Benek Blues, dir. Katarzyna Maciejko-Kowalczyk, Poland 56’
Takie miejsce, dir. Andrzej Titkow, Poland, 11’
First Love, dir. Krzysztof Kieślowski, Poland, 30’/52’
The Return of Agnieszka H., dir. Krystyna Krauze, Jacek Petrycki, Poland, Czech Republic, 77’
Poste Restante, dir. Marcel Łoziński, Poland, 14’
My Notes from the Underground, dir. Jacek Petrycki, Poland, 39’
The Betrayed, dir. Clive Gordon, United Kingdom, 79’

Retrospective of Godfrey Reggio’s films:

Koyaanisqatsi, dir. Godfrey Reggio, USA, 87’
Powaqqatsi, dir. Godfrey Reggio, USA, 90’
Naqoyqatsi, dir. Godfrey Reggio, USA, 89’
Visitors, dir. Godfrey Reggio, USA, 87’
Once Within a Time, dir. Godfrey Reggio, Jon Kane, USA, 52’

FOCUS ON ROMANIA

Presentation of the cinematography of one of the European country. The country in focus will be announced at the beginning of 2024.

Arsenie. An Amazing Afterlife, dir. Alexandru Solomon, Romania, Luxembourg, 95’, 2023
Between Silence and Sin, dir. Diana Nicolae, Romania, USA, 98’, 2024
The Chalice. Of Sons And Daughters, dir. Catalina Tesar, Dana Bunescu, Romania, 84’, 2022
Holy Father, dir. Andrei Dascalescu, Romania, 75’, 2020
Too close, dir. Botond Püsök, Romania, 85’, 2022

DOCS+SCIENCE

Screenings of the most interesting documentaries from around the world, blending art of film and science.

Close to Vermeer, dir. Suzanne Raes, Denmark, 79’, 2023
Geographies of Solitude, dir. Jacquelyn Mills, Canada, 103’, 2022
Metamorphosis, dir. Pim Zwier, Kingdom of the Netherlands, 98’, 2023
Isaac Asimov, a message to the future, dir. Mathias Théry, France, 54’, 2022
Thermodielectric, dir. Ana Costa Ribeiro, Brasil, 72’, 2023
Cyborg Generation, dir. Miguel Morillo Vega, Spain, 63’ 2024