Emigration
12 films
Claw Machine (CLAW MACHINE)
dir. Georges Salameh
anim2023
The story of an immersion into the experience of being uprooted. Fragments and words. The unspoken, the indescribable. Memory shaken. Eyes closed. The city is under siege. Drift towards the unknown. The dilemma: resistance or migration? Mediterranean voyages of no return.
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Distances (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 moreFahnenflucht
dir. Emil Ahlhelm, Konradin Schuchter
dok2023
If you are a man, you have only two options during a war – stay and fight or leave to save your life. Not everyone wants to lay down their life for their homeland and this should be respected. A story of people who refused to participate in the ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine on account of their beliefs.
Read moreI, Rosiński (Ja, Rosiński)
dir. Piotr Kielar
dok2024
Grzegorz Rosiński, one of the most renowned Polish comic strip creators and the author of drawings for the series ‘Thorgal’, has retired. But what does it mean for an artist to end his career? Rosiński keeps drawing and plans to leave the profession on his own rules only.
Read moreLife Is Beautiful (Al Haya Helwa)
dir. Mohamed Jabaly
dok2023
When Mohamed Jabaly, a young Palestinian filmmaker, was invited to Norway, he did not realize he would have to stay there over the next seven years. He could not go back to Gaza because Israel had just closed the only border crossing with Egypt. As a result, he made a tragicomedy about Palestinian fate.
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 moreOtherland (Obczyzna)
dir. Piotr Wysocki
dok2024
Poland through the eyes of immigrants. Over the course of 10 years, we follow ups and downs of three characters who have moved to Warsaw from the smallest region of Russia, located in the Caucasus. They are of the same nationality, but their ambitions differ. How will their lives turn out in their new homeland?
Read morePurga
dir. Gintarė Valevičiūtė Brazauskienė, Antanas Skučas
anim2023
Winter, 1942. Beyond the Arctic Circle, on the uninhabited island of Trofimovsk in the Laptev Sea, deported peoples struggle to survive. In this harsh, alien landscape, man is a mere speck.
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
Son of the Mullah
dir. Nahid Persson
dok2023
Ruhollah Zam, a persecuted journalist from Teheran, was forced to leave for France with his family, but even there he needs to live in conspiracy. The director accompanies him during remote work and in his everyday fear. It turns out that the international network of activists is infiltrated by the Iranian regime.
Read moreThe Car that Came Back from the Sea (Samochód, który wrócił z morza)
dir. Jadwiga Kowalska
anim2023
Poland, 1981. A group of young people have a dream: to have a car, be free and go on a trip to the seaside. They are not really into politics, even though shelves in shops are empty and it is impossible to get a passport. An animated road movie, in a comic book style, documenting Poland during the communist era.
Read moreTiger 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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