About kids (not necessarily for kids)
18 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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Autism Plays Itself
dir. Janet Harbord
dok2023
In 1957 at the Maudsley Hospital in London, a film recording atypical behaviour of children was shot. Many years later, three adults in autism spectrum added their commentary to it providing new interpretations for the behaviour of the children in the film.
Read moreA Good Mind Grows in Thorny Places (Dom Strom)
dir. Katarína Gramatová
dok2023
A poetic story about growing up. Adam is a 12-year-old boy who lives in a Slovak village. He is a local lumberjack and additionally takes up different odd jobs. In general, he likes to do everything. Although his life is not easy, he is able to notice beauty everywhere.
Read moreDistances (Odległości)
dir. Matej Bobrik
dok2023
The story of a Nepalese family living in Poland who believe that a better future awaits them here. However, a change in living conditions puts their relationship to a severe test
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 moreForest (Las)
dir. Lidia Duda
dok2024
Asia and Marek live with their three children in the Bialowieza Forest, right on the border with Belarus. The cameras installed in the forest have so far served them to observe the animals. But the night-time recordings show that people have appeared in the forest. The whole family is committed to helping the refugees, even though they have no support from the state.
Read moreInheritance
dir. Matt Moyer, Amy Toensing
dok2024
For a number of years the authors of the film accompanied a family from the Appalachians, an exploited region affected by the opioid crisis. In an insightful and empathetic way, they filmed the situation of the youngest generation burdened with poverty and the omnipresence of addictive substances from the very start. Among them, there is Curtis, a resolute boy ready to break out of the vicious circle sucking up his loved ones.
Read moreIn My Hands (W moich rękach)
dir. Igor Kuna
dok2024
A young determined man, despite not having his left arm, strives to be a hero as a fireman and father. Devoid of dialogues, the film shows the stalwart strength of the human spirit and boundless love using just images and sound.
Read moreKoka
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
Manual for a Divorce (Résumé d'un divorce)
dir. Peter Ghesquiere
fab2023
Divorce is not as complicated as adults claim. You just need to split everything in two equal parts and make sure that ex-partners live far away from each other. Then after six years of tearing your hair out, shedding tears and immersion in despair, you will be able to have a civil conversation.
Read moreNabu
dir. Joanna Rusinek
anim2023
Nabu’s carefree childhood is interrupted by bombs falling on her native village. The brave girl is trying to escape and find a safe haven. A remarkably touching animation about the fate of refugees as seen by a child, presented with great sensitivity and subtlety.
Read moreNutcracker Girl (Dziewczynka do orzechów)
dir. Michalina Musialik
anim2023
Christmas is the magic time when snow falls, the family gets together and toys become alive. On this special evening, a little girl can see her doll embark on a great adventure. The magic is gone the moment a wooden soldier puts his hand under the doll’s dress. A story about growing up and discovering carnality to the tune of Tchaikovsky’s ballet.
Read moreOpen Eyes (Zheng Zhe De Yan Jing)
dir. Qi Zhang
fab2023
Residents of no other country have been so much experienced by the pandemic restrictions. In China, a quarantine meant not only a ban to leave your house but also a welded door. ‘Open Eyes’ is a film that settles accounts with this difficult period in an unexpected way by presenting a relatively young marriage trapped in isolation.
Read morePotatoes (Ziemniaki)
dir. Marcin Podolec
anim2023
The list of the father’s expectations from his son makes the young boy feel insufficiently good. The situation changes when the son becomes a parent himself. Will he set the bar for his own child equally high? A charming animation about parenthood, unfulfilled ambitions and letting oneself err.
Read moreSilent 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
Submarine (Łódź podwodna)
dir. Oliwia Zakrzewska
dok2024
Oliwia is experiencing a maternity crisis. She is a young single mother who raises her two-year-old son. Struggling with depression, she tries to seek help in many different ways - at counselling centres, church or Tinder.
Read moreThe Mandala (Mandala)
dir. Mikołaj Janik
fab2023
In Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism, a mandala is a mystical symbol of the universe. A wheel joins harmoniously with a square. In the same way, the present and the past, reality and a dream, are enlaced in the world of Łucja, a single mother. Harmony is becoming replaced by everyday mundane rehabilitation and a nightmare as if from another dimension.
Read moreToo Close (Apropierea)
dir. Botond Püsök
dok2023
He did not drink, came from a respectable family and attended Mass every Sunday. Only Andrea and her daughter knew that he was a man with a friendly face which concealed dangerous tendencies. When he ended up in prison, the residents of a Transylvanian village, instead of taking the side of the pregnant woman and her child, refused to believe in his guilt.
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