Krakow Film Festival
Krakow Film Festival opens submissions for 67th edition
The festival adds an International Documentary Debut Competition and will select around 200 titles for its 30 May to 6 June 2027 edition.
Krakow Film Festival reveals new international titles and visual identity
The Krakow Film Festival has revealed a further pair of international documentary competition titles while also rolling out a new visual identity that sharpens the event’s long-running INSIDER positioning. On the programming side, the newly announced films are Bipuljit Basu’s Redlight to Limelight and Michal Kosakowski’s Holofiction, two works that approach cinema as both subject…
Krakow Film Festival adds new award for documentary innovation
Krakow Film Festival (KFF) has unveiled a new international prize aimed at formally rewarding formal innovation in nonfiction: the Marcel Łoziński Documentary Award, established with the Polish Documentary Film Directors Guild in tribute to the late Polish filmmaker (1940–2025). Positioned as a corrective to «ready-made formats» in a platform-led marketplace, the award is open to…
Festival notes on the future and past
INTERVIEW: We sat down with the old and new festival directors of the Krakow Film Festival to discuss a generational shift, reality and truth, the challenges of online platforms, and why shorts matter.
Krakow Film Festival names new leadership after 25 years
The Krakow Film Festival has appointed Barbara Orlicz-Szczypuła as its new festival director, succeeding #Krzysztof Gierat#, who led the event for 25 years. On Orlicz-Szczypuła’s recommendation, longtime collaborator Anita Piotrowska will serve as artistic director. The decision was made unanimously by the Programme Council of the Krakow Film Foundation. Orlicz-Szczypuła, an ethnology and cultural anthropology…
Flowers of Ukraine
UKRAINE: On the outskirts of Kyiv, a woman in her 70s demonstrates her love of freedom.
Child of Dust
VIETNAM: Born of war and raised in hardship, a man’s search for his father becomes a reflection on identity, healing, and generational trauma.
Silver
LABOUR: Bolivia’s Potosi silver mines—where colonial history meets today’s tech-driven demand.
Life and Other Problems
HUMANITY: Is human life special? Or just one iteration in a massive, co-created web of intelligence?