Krakow Film Festival
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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…
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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…
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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.
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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…
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Flowers of Ukraine
UKRAINE: On the outskirts of Kyiv, a woman in her 70s demonstrates her love of freedom.
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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.
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Silver
LABOUR: Bolivia’s Potosi silver mines—where colonial history meets today’s tech-driven demand.
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Life and Other Problems
HUMANITY: Is human life special? Or just one iteration in a massive, co-created web of intelligence?
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The Big Chief
COLD WAR: A gripping archival documentary explores the life of a Soviet intelligence legend caught in the web of 20th-century persecution and historical ambiguity.