52nd KFF already after its halfway point but there is also the whole cinema weekend ahead.
52nd KFF already after its halfway point but there is also the whole cinema weekend ahead: next world premieres, latest competition screenings and 10th Music Video Night. The festival will close with the award ceremony on Sunday, 3 June. The ceremony will be conducted by Maciej Stuhr and the screening of the awarded films will last till late night hours.
The cinema weekend is worth beginning on Saturday morning at 10 a.m. The last screenings of National Competition are still ahead of us. Among titles, there is a short documentary about the most famous Polish amateur actor, Jan Himilsbach.
A bit later, from 12:30 p.m. next part of the short film competition review. The competition block includes “Pitch Black Heist” by John Maclean with the main part played by well known Michael Fassbender.
Cinema Saturday will be full of excitement thanks to the Polish animation- the competition block, in which we will have a chance to see 15 latest productions of this genre, will start at 3 p.m.
At 6 p.m., two world premieres: “Dad Went Fishing” by Grzegorz Pacek, discovering a story about a complete transformation of an African bon vivant into a loving carer of the abandoned children, and a moving subject of pedophilia included in “Entangled” by Lidia Duda.
Three hours later, there is a Polish premiere of “The Virgin, the Copts and Me” planned at 9 p.m. An excellent competitive documentary conveys a story of the young film maker, who despite the fact of being skeptical about miracles, returns to his homeland Egypt to shoot a film ordered by the French TV about local revelations of the Virgin Mary.
In the late evening, 10th Music Video Night, enjoying great popularity, and the entirely distinctive 90 minutes, as regards of music videos production, presented on the big screen of the Kijów.Centrum. cinema.
Sunday is the day when the competition awards will be announced and the closing ceremony will take place; but before it happens, it’s worth stopping by at the cinema for the latest round of the competitive documentary films, including the latest picture of Vitalij Mansky “Motherland or Death”, showing colourful and sunny Cuba from the side hardly presented in tourist brochures.
On 3 June at 6 p.m., the closing ceremony and the laureates night will begin, during which we will have an opportunity to see all awarded films. The event will last till very late.
The 52nd Krakow Film Festival started on Monday, 28 May. Its special guest on the opening ceremony was Kevin Macdonald, who arrived to Krakow with his latest film “Marley” having the Polish premiere. Helena Třeštíková, the Czech documentarian, also paid a visit to the festival. As first female laureate in the history of the Krakow festival, she received the Dragon of Dragons award on Wednesday, 30 May.
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