Non-competing sections “World Stories” and “Somewhere in Europe” at the 56th Krakow Film Festival.
There are as many stories, lifestyles, differences and similarities as there are countries. The series “Somewhere in Europe” presents films produced in Europe, but depicting these less known and less explored faces of our continent. “World Stories” transport the viewers to various corners of the globe, following interesting stories, expressive characters and issues which are still up-to-date.
“World Stories”
“Next Year in Jerusalem,” says the master of Polish documentary film Marian Marzyński and sets out on a fascinating journey to the holy city in order to understand the Jewish-Palestinian conflict. Another Polish director who lives in the USA, Paweł Gula, visits several Asian countries in the film “In the Name of Honor,” to try to understand something which is unimaginable in our culture – crimes committed on the close ones in the name of honour. Using the example of the beautiful woman, disfigured with acid by her father-in-law, the Iranian author, Sona Moghaddam shows the horrifying cruelty of a centuries-old custom in the documentary film “Masoumeh”. “I Am Haiti” (dir. Raúl de la Fuente) follows the life of a sculptor after the disastrous earthquake in Haiti, and in “Strike A Pose” Ester Gould and Reijer Zwaan listen to the memories of the dancers who accompanied Madonna during her five-month-long tour 25 years ago.
“Somewhere in Europe”
In the national competition, a film about the psychiatrist who was once friends with the war criminal Karadzic, here, “The Dangerous World of Doctor Doleček” that is, a journey of the director Kristýna Bartošova with the Czech-Serbian nationalist, who adores his acquaintance, general Mladić, the perpetrator of the massacre in Srebrenica. What motivated the brutal crimes in Russia and who hides behind their neo-Nazi setting, is what the authors of the Russian-Israeli investigation want to find out in the documentary film “Credit for Murder” (dir. Vladi Antonevicz). Nostalgia for the first film screenings and sorrow about the cinemas which no longer exist are the subject matter of the film “Just Like the Movies” (dir. Atanas Hristoskov) from Bulgaria, and the portrait of the father restored from the abundant film documentation, which he created himself, as well as from what he wanted to hide, is the documentary film “My Life as Film” (dir. Eva Vitija) from Switzerland. The Hungarian film, which closes this set, “His Parents’ Eyes” (dir. Ágota Varga) also has its counterpart in the national competition. Here and there, the children are guides of their disabled parents.
THE PROGRAMME
“World Stories”
MON| 30.05 AGRAFKA 13:00 WED|01.06 KINO POD BARANAMI 21:30
“In the Name of Honor,” dir. Pawel Gula, (the USA, Poland), 72’
MON| 30.05 KINO POD BARANAMI 21:30 THURS| 02.06 AGRAFKA 13:30
“Next year in Jerusalem,” dir. Marian Marzyński, (the USA) 53’
TUE| 31.05 AGRAFKA 13:00 THURS| 02.06 KINO POD BARANAMI 21:30
“Masoumeh,” dir. Sona Moghaddam, (Ireland) 71’ D
TUE| 31.05 KINO POD BARANAMI 21:30 THURS| 02.06 MOS 1 22:00
“Strike A Pose,” dir. Ester Gould and Reijer Zwaan, (the Netherlands, Belgium) 83’
WED|01.06 AGRAFKA 14:00 FRI|03.06 KINO POD BARANAMI 21:00
“I Am Haiti,” dir. Raúl de la Fuente, (Spain) 66’
“Somewhere in Europe”
MON| 30.05 KINO POD BARANAMI 14:00 WED| 01.06 AGRAFKA 22:00
“Credit for Murder,” dir. Vladi Antonevicz” (Israel), 86’
MON| 30.05 AGRAFKA 20:30 THURS| 02.06 KINO POD BARANAMI 14:00
“The Dangerous World of Doctor Doleček,” dir. Kristýna Bartošová, (the Czech Republic) 75’
TUE|31.05 KINO POD BARANAMI 14:00 THURS| 02.06 AGRAFKA 22:00
“Just Like the Movies,” dir. Atanas Hristoskov, (Bulgaria) 70’
TUE|31.05 AGRAFKA 20:30 FRI|03.06 KINO POD BARANAMI 14:00
“His Parents’ Eyes,” dir. Ágota Varga, (Hungary) 90’
WED| 01.06 KINO POD BARANAMI 14:00 FRI| 03.06 AGRAFKA 20:30
“My Life as Film,” Eva Vitija (Switzerland) 77 ‘