Krakow Film Festival
Fragility and might
RESILIANCE: An emotional rollercoaster where the final award is the life of a girl smiling despite her pain.
Nothing to envy
IDENTITY: Annexed by Russia after WWII, inhabitants of a picturesque Pacific island long for a better future while finding traces of its Japanese past.
Katya and Vasya go to school
EDUCATION: Education takes on an entirely new meaning when two idealistic young city slickers take up teaching jobs in a provincial Russian town.
Ordinary people. Ordinary activities
COMMUNISM: The banality of evil in communist-era Poland explored through archive footage of secret police audio and film recordings.
The complete documentary programme for the 60th Krakow Film Festival
As with most other festivals through the #Coronavirus pandemic, from May 31 to June 7, 2020, the entire programme of the 60th #Krakow Film Festival# will be moved online for Polish audiences. Now, the festival’s documentary competitions have been announced to act as a window to this current world of quarantine. Featuring films from the…
Burlesque and carnivorous satire
SOCIETY: A grotesque, unrestrained and entertaining satire on our modern-day decadence and gluttony.
Children in the free
SOCIETY: On the outskirts of Bucharest, a family lives in harmony with nature until forced to adapt to big city life.
Skinless exposure
PHOTOGRAPHY: Lene Marie Fossen's own tortured body as a canvas for grief, pain and longing in her series of self portraits
