Krakow Film Festival
First titles for 2023 Krakow Film Festival have been announced
Although the program for the Krakow Film Festival (28 May – 4 June) is still being worked on until mid-April, the first titles to compete for the top prizes in the International Documentary Competition have been announced. The International Documentary Competition is a prestigious category that features films on significant issues. Three films competing this…
Silent House
IRAN: The fortunes of three generations of an upper-middle-class Iranian family tracked across forty years of turbulent Iranian history.
When climate change is not the main issue
COMMUNITY: It's more than icebergs and permafrost vanishing in the Arctic as a young anthropologist discovers in Svalbard, Norway.
Unpacking trauma
UKRAINE: The young Ukrainian generation, scarred by war, prepares a play based on the motifs of Shakespeare's Hamlet.
The «fragile memory» of the man behind the camera
MEMORY: A Ukrainian filmmaker turns to a forgotten photo archive as his grandfather’s memory starts fading away.
Choices of war
CONFLICT: Sergei Loznitsa’s sombre documentary, The Natural History of Destruction, re-examines the heavy bombing of British and German cities during World War Two, posing the question – ‘is it morally acceptable to kill civilian populations as a means of war?’
From distant observer to ally
CLIMATE: A remote Russian geophysicist seeks to restore the Ice Age ecosystems.
