{"id":28160,"date":"2021-05-15T13:51:32","date_gmt":"2021-05-15T11:51:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.krakowfilmfestival.pl\/?p=28160"},"modified":"2021-05-15T13:59:46","modified_gmt":"2021-05-15T11:59:46","slug":"world-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.krakowfilmfestival.pl\/en\/world-stories\/","title":{"rendered":"World Stories"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Non-competing series at the 61<\/span>st<\/span><\/sup> Krakow Film Festival<\/span><\/p>\n

Each year, World Stories attract moviegoers fascinated by distant cultures, extraordinary places and extraordinary stories. This time, within the frames of the series we will see, among others, the world chronicle of July 25, 2020, in the camera lenses of ordinary people, a journey in the footsteps of the first polar research expedition and the return of the uprooted people, who still remember their abandoned home country, to their places of birth. <\/span><\/h5>\n\n\n\n

From among hundreds of film submissions, we decided to select five films that show in a special way how people confront past, present and future, <\/span><\/em>this is how Krzysztof Gierat<\/strong>, the Director of the Krakow Film Festival, justifies the selection. –<\/span> Another motive that seems clear is the longing for the loved ones, which allow the contemporary slaves, working illegally in the Middle-East, to survive, but also the longing for the life in harmony with oneself, which accompanies homosexual Orthodox Jews.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the films from the series will be presented in the unique space of the open-air Kino pod Wawelem on Monday, the 31<\/span>st<\/span><\/sup> of May.<\/span> “Life in a Day 2020”<\/span> is the next instalment of the global film project by the outstanding director, the winner of the Academy Award and numerous other prestigious awards around the world – Kevin Macdonald. The film consists of over 300 000 amateur video recordings which were submitted from all over the world and constitute an informal chronicler’s record of events coming from one single day, the 25<\/span>th<\/span><\/sup> of July 2020. For many participants of the project, it was just an ordinary Saturday in the new reality of the pandemic, but for others, an unforgettable date – the day on which their child was born, when they proposed to their beloved or when they said goodbye to their close ones. All these experiences are united by the awareness of the camera’s presence and of the participation in the project. Admission to the open-air screening – free. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n