Krakow Film Festival
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What about identity?
IRELAND: Irish filmmakers redefine identity through intimate, political, and historical documentaries at the Krakow Film Festival’s Focus on Ireland programme.
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KFF Industry celebrates 20 Years as filmmaking hub
The Krakow Film Festival’s industry arm, #KFF Industry#, marks a major milestone this year as it celebrates its 20th anniversary. What began in 2006 as a modest initiative with a few video booths has evolved into the largest international industry event of its kind in #Poland, dedicated to documentary, short, and animated film professionals from…
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The Town That Drove Away : «We witnessed how urbanisation became a façade»
INTERVIEW: Filmmakers Grzegorz Piekarski and Natalia Pietsch explore Turkey’s cultural erasure through the transformation of historic Hasankeyf into underwater tourism.
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Complete Polish film programme announced for the 65th Krakow Film Festival
The 65th Krakow Film Festival (26 May – 2 June 2025) will showcase a significant and diverse body of Polish cinema, with 41 national productions set to compete across various categories. Spanning documentary, animation, and short fiction, this year’s Polish selection demonstrates a rich breadth of thematic and stylistic innovation, with works ranging from debut…
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Everything Needs to Live
UKRAINE: As war rages, a world champion weightlifter becomes an unexpected hero, tending to wounded pets and people with tireless resolve.
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Tooth & Nail : Chainsaws, cameras, and the state that looked away
INTERVIEW: Brutal beatings, corrupt police, Austrian multinationals. Romania’s logging war is real and it’s funded by Europe’s thirst for cheap wood.
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Krakow Film Festival unveils 2025 international documentary competition lineup
Ecological catastrophe, political intrigue, and intimate reckonings with memory and identity take centre stage in the 65th Krakow Film Festival’s International Documentary Competition. The 13-film programme, spanning continents and styles, captures a world in turmoil, where truth is elusive, systems are crumbling, and solace is often found in unexpected places. The films in the competition…
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Smokehouses and soundscapes at the 65th Kraków Film Festival
The 65th Kraków Film Festival will open on 25 May 2025 with the world premiere of The Queen and the Smokehouse, a debut feature by Polish director Iga Lis. Lis’s film tells the story of Miecia, the formidable matriarch of a smokehouse in the coastal town of Łeba. For decades, her fish delicacies have drawn…
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Absent fathers and human futures at the 65th Kraków Film Festival
The 65th Kraków Film Festival, running from 25 May to 1 June 2025, with an extended online edition on KFF VOD until 15 June, offers an expansive look at contemporary documentary cinema. This year’s programme is marked by the convergence of the intimate and the existential, with two strands—the International Documentary Competition and Docs+Science—examining the…