{"id":18437,"date":"2020-04-28T14:30:17","date_gmt":"2020-04-28T12:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.krakowfilmfestival.pl\/?p=18437"},"modified":"2020-05-18T23:57:38","modified_gmt":"2020-05-18T21:57:38","slug":"a-short-report-from-the-world-before-the-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.krakowfilmfestival.pl\/en\/a-short-report-from-the-world-before-the-pandemic\/","title":{"rendered":"A short report from the world before the pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

International short film competition at the 60<\/span>th<\/span><\/sup> Krakow Film Festival<\/span><\/p>\n

In this most diverse festival competition short documentaries, animations and live action films from all round the world will compete for a Golden and Silver Dragons in front of an international jury. Six Polish films are among them. The awards given in this competition make winners eligible to submit for Oscars and European Film Awards consideration.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Documentary films<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Over four hundred films were watched, an entire notebook was filled with notes, a number of serious conversations took place \u2013 all that to select thirteen films for the competition. The official selection consists mostly of family stories, often based on some amateur footage from the years before. There is also a number of stories devoted to difficulties that women and minorities have to face in various parts of the world. Subjects like war and refugees are still very present. The world can see its reflection in the films submitted to the Krakow Film Festival <\/em>\u2013 Maciej Gil<\/strong> who selects the festival films says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Documentary films will also take us to often inaccessible places: in \u201ckeep shiftin\u201d<\/strong> we\u2019ll take a peek at un incredibly photogenic process of glass blowing in a factory on the Czechia-Germany border, while \u201cDepot Asmara\u201d<\/strong> will take us to the railways of Eritrea where two friends work on impressive locomotives. As always, we will meet fascinating characters and learn their extraordinary fates, e.g. in a documentary \u201cThe Fantastic\u201d<\/strong> which tells the story of former North Korea citizens and their first impressions after watching films from abroad, which in their country were illegal; and in an animated documentary \u201cJust a Guy\u201d <\/strong>in which three women confess their love for a serial killer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n