The 65th Krakow Film Festival would not be complete without Polish cinema classics. The screening of Adam Krzeptowski’s silent film The White Trail will be accompanied by live music performed by Maciej Trifonidis and Joachim Mencel, whilst a special programme entitled Landscape of Singularity: Women in the Documentary Film will present audiences with five exceptional titles curated by the National Film Archive – Audiovisual Institute (FINA).
The White Trail with Live Music
A silent film screening with live musical score is our festival’s staple. This year, in collaboration with the National Film Archive – Audiovisual Institute and the Silent Film Festival, we are going to screen Adam Krzeptowski’s The White Trail. The film was the sole Polish production featured at the very first Venice Film Festival. The White Trail is a melodrama set against the magnificent backdrop of the Tatra Mountains. Musical score will be provided by Maciej Trifonidis (multi-instrumentalist, composer, and collector of sounds) and Joachim Mencel – pianist, composer, music producer, and pioneer of contemporary jazz performance on the hurdy-gurdy.
Special ticket prices apply for the show.
Partners: National Film Archive – Audiovisual Institute and Silent Film Festival
31.05 SAT 18:00 | MOS Małopolski Ogród Sztuki
Landscape of Singularity: Women in the Documentary Film
This programme, curated by the National Film Archive – Audiovisual Institute (FINA), presents the feminine experience, focusing on the protagonists’ lives or the perspectives of female directors. The films feature both young and adult women grappling with everyday existence, work, and societal expectations. The films Gucia, Krystyna M., and Day by Day reveal a grey, monotonous reality filled with uncertainty and challenges. The collection is bookended by Colour and Painting – poetic visions that offer escape from rejection, misunderstanding, or creative impotence, whilst simultaneously attempting to reclaim voice and personal space. These documentaries, crafted by the masters of Polish cinema – Kazimierz Karabasz, Irena Kamieńska, Bogdan Dziworski, Jadwiga Kędzierzawska, and her daughter Dorota Kędzierzawska – unite sensitivity, intimacy, and poetic form, revealing a world concealed 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’
The screening is partnered by the National Film Archive – Audiovisual Institute (FINA).
27.05 TUE 16:00 | Agrafka
31.05 SAT 13:00 | Kino Pod Baranami, Blue Auditorium
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The Krakow Film Festival is on the exclusive list of film events qualifying for the Academy Awards® in short film categories (fiction, animation, documentary) and feature-length documentary, the European Film Awards in the same categories, and serves as a qualifying event for the BAFTA Awards.
The Krakow Film Festival is organised with financial support from the City of Krakow, the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, the Polish Film Institute, and the Creative Europe MEDIA Programme. The Polish Filmmakers Association serves as co-organiser.
The KFF at the Barbican is co-organised by the National Cultural Centre as part of the cultural programme of the Polish Presidency of the Council of the European Union 2025.
The 65th Krakow Film Festival will be held in cinemas from 25 May to 1 June 2025 and online on KFF VOD from 30 May to 15 June 2025.