SPECIAL SCREENINGS

**Screening of Wojciech Jerzy Has’s, The Saragossa Manuscript with live music performed by Paweł Romańczuk, Małe Instrumenty and Sinfonietta Cracovia**

26.05 MON 18:00 | Filharmonia Krakowska

Wojciech Jerzy Has, one of the Patrons of 2025 as announced by the Polish Senate, will be celebrated with a screening of his most famous surrealist film, which won international acclaim. The iconic masterpiece will be accompanied by music composed by Krzysztof Penderecki and performed live by Paweł Romańczuk, Małe Instrumenty and Sinfonietta Cracovia. The score combines experimental sounds, baroque and classical inspirations and distinctive guitar parts.

The event is the fruit of collaboration between the Krakow Film Festival and the Film Music Festival. (16+)

Polish/English Tickets apply

Organiser: Festiwal Muzyki Filmowej

Co-organiser: Narodowe Centrum Kultury

Partners: Wytwórnia Filmów Dokumentalnych i Fabularnych (WFDiF), 65. Krakowski Festiwal Filmowy

Landscape of Individuality. Women in Polish documentary film

27.05 TUE 16:00 | Agrafka

31.05 SAT 13:00 | Kino Pod Baranami s. Niebieska

The programme prepared by FINA – the National Film Archive – Audiovisual Institutefocuses on women’s experience as seen from the perspective of both female characters and filmmakers. It shows young girls along with adult women struggling with everyday life, work and social expectations. Such films as ‘Gucia’, ‘Krystyna M.’or ‘Day by Day’show a grey, monotonous reality, full of uncertainty and challenges. They are tied together by ‘Colour’ and ‘Painting’– two poetic, artistic visions offering an escape from rejection, misunderstanding or creative impotence, and at the same time making an attempt to regain voice and space for oneself. Documentaries made by such masters of Polish cinema as Kazimierz Karabasz, Irena Kamieńska, Bogdan Dziworski, Jadwiga Kędzierzawska and her daughter, Dorota Kędzierzawska, combine sensitivity, intimacy and a poetic form, revealing the world hidden behind routine and silence.

Krystyna M., dir. Kazimierz Karabasz, (PL), D, 1973, 34’

Painting, dir. Bogdan Dziworski, (PL), D, 1979, 8’

Colour, dir. Jadwiga Kędzierzawska, (PL), D, 1982,16’

Gucia, dir. Dorota Kędzierzawska, (PL), D, 1985, 16’

Day by Day, dir. Irena Kamieńska, (PL), D, 1988, 16’

Tickets apply

Partner: FINA

**Special screening of ‘A Whale Song’, a documentary by Michał Hytroś, with the participation of the film protagonist, Krzysztof Globisz**

28.05 WED 18:00 | AST Akademia Sztuk Teatralnych

‘The way a person stammers, groans and searches for words says much more about them than the actual content of the message,’ – this statement by Krzysztof Globisz captures his phenomenon as an actor and an individual. The film is an impressionistic portrayal in which the actor’s post-stroke recovery of speech becomes self-therapy and a creative process at the same time. It shows how, through his ‘whale haiku’, the protagonist communicates anew with his surroundings, and the viewers obtain an opportunity to immerse themselves for a moment in his inner world.

In Polish only

Invitations apply

Partners: AST, Studio Munka

**Screening of A White Track, dir. Adam Krzeptowski (PL 1932, 67’) with live music by Maciej Trifonidis and Joachim Mencel**

31.05 SAT 18:00 | MOS Małopolski Ogród Sztuki

The Krakow Film Festival in collaboration with the National Film Archive – Audiovisual Institute would like to invite you to the screening of the Polish silent film ‘White Track’ by Adam Krzeptowski with the score performed live. The film was the only Polish production presented at the first Venice Film Festival. ‘White Track’ is a melodrama set in the beautiful scenery of the Tatra Mountains. Maciej Trifonidis (multi-instrumentalist, composer and sound collector) and Joachim Mencel – a pianist, composer, music producer and precursor of performing contemporary jazz on the hurdy-gurdy – will play the film score live at the screening.