PARASITE (HUBA)
66’ POLAND 2013
Directed by Anka & Wilhelm Sasnal
CAST: Joanna Drozda, Jerzy Gawlikowski, Wojtek Słowik, Anna Łącka-Szczygieł, Krzysztof Pabian
Huba (Parasite) is a film about an ailing man and a young mother. After retiring from a factory, the man, deprived of his daily routine. loses control over his time. Unable to eat or sleep, he starts drying up. The mother and child are like a single organism. Yet their relationship is, for all its closeness, one of dependence and inequality. The child, whose attachment to life is the strongest, is ravenous and needy; the woman, though enjoying a brief moment of freedom, is doomed to be a victim, while the old man has nothing to keep him going now that he can no longer work at the factory. When the three of them try to have a life together, they are like the Holy Family reversed. Brought together by chance, their lives intertwine in a web of oppression. The Film follows their daily existence and slow decline.
FESTIVAL SCREENINGS:
10.02.14. 15:30, CinemaxX6 (press screening)
12.02.14. 19:30, CinemaxX4
13.02.14. 20:00, Colosseum 1
14.02.14. 19:30, Delphi-Filmpalast 35mm
15.02.14. 12:30, Arsenal 35mm
THE WORD (OBIETNICA)
97’ POLAND/DENMARK 2014
Directed by Anna Kazejak
CAST: Eliza Rycembel, Mateusz Więcławek, Magdalena Popławska, Dawid Ogrodnik, Andrzej Chyra
WORLD SALES: LevelK
Three weeks ago, LILA’s Word fell apart when her girlfriends happily reported that they saw Lila’s boyfriend JANEK, kissing another girl during a party. This comes as a shock since Janek only had eyes for her and what they had felt so real. Lila can’t forgive him; she trusted him more than anyone else in her life. Days before the end of the shool year, she gives Jnaek an ultimatum. Janek has 24 hours to prove his true love. Otherwise, he can forget about ever being with Lila again.
FESTIVAL SCREENINGS:
13.02.14. 20:00, Haus der Kulturen der Welt Kino 1
14.02.14. 15:30, Zoo Palast 1
15.02.14. 16:30, CinemaxX 3
TO THY HEART (DO SERCA TWEGO)
ANIMATION 10’, POLAND 2013
Directed by Ewa Borysewicz
WORLD SALES: Krakow Film Foundation
There's a candy bubble gum, there's a swing, so there must be love as well - somewhere. A secular litany and a story of a relationship, resounding through a tower block estate.
FESTIVAL SCREENINGS:
07.02.14. 16:00, CinemaxX 5 (accreditation screening)
11.02.14. 22:00, CinemaxX 3
13.02.14. 17:45, Colosseum 1
14.02.14. 16:00, CinemaXx 5
FIELD OF DOGS (PSIE POLE)
106’ POLAND2014
Directed by Lech Majewski
CAST: Michał Tatarek, Elżbieta Okupska, Anna Mielczarek, Jacenty Jędrusik, Szymon Budzyk
WORLD SALES: Wide Management
Father ploughs a supermarket with oxen, the plough ripping up tiles. A girl in a bikini tempts the hero on the snowy slopes of the Matterhorn. A forest full of the dead and Niagara falling onto a cathedral altar. These are the visions of Adam, a poet who has lost his beloved in a car crash. He gives up his job as professor of literature to work at a supermarket checkout. Yet all he wants is to sleep, escaping from his painful reality. For him the only text to read in these hard times in Divine Comedy. And it is Dante’s masterpiece that brings back some meaning to Adam’s life.
EFM SCREENINGS:
08.02.14. 08:50, CinemaxX 15
09.02.14. 10:50, CinemaxX 19
LIFE FEELS GOOD (Chce się żyć), `107min, Poland, 2013
Directed by Maciej Pieprzyca
Cast: Dawid Ogrodnik, Kamil Tkacz, Dorota Kolak, Arkadiusz Jakubik, Helena Sujecka
WORLD SALES: Intramovies
Enthusiastically received and awarded Grand Prix at the most recent International Film Festival in Montreal, the film inspired by actual events is a story of Mateusz suffering from cerebral palsy. Deemed a “vegetable” by doctors and people around him, Mateusz is brought up by his loving parents who don’t accept the medical diagnosis, believing in his full intellectual ability despite communication problems. When he meets a new doctor practicing experimental methods of treatment, his condition changes and he turns out to be completely normal, intelligent man. His will to live and staying in good spirits give him a power to overcome his limitations.
Selected for WFF Montreal (Grand Prix), Audience Awards, Ecumenical Jury Prize), Gdynia FF (Silver Lions Award, Audience Award, Golden Claquer Award for longest applause ), Chicago IFF
EFM SCREENING:
09.02.2014, 17:45, Cinemax X17
LITTLE CRUSHES (Małe Stłuczki), `79, Poland, 2014
Directed by Irebeusz Grzyb, Aleksandra Gowin
Cast: Helena Sujecka, Agnieszka Pawełkiewicz, Szymon Czcki
Little Crushes tells the story of Kasia, Asia and Peter. The women live together and run a small business clearing out apartments when the owners move away or die. Peter, who recently left his wife and quit his job, finds himself in competition with Kasia for Asia’s affection. Tensions increase and emotions run high but no one is prepared to make the next move, preferring to play safe instead, rather than risk crushing what they have. Essentialy they manage to maintain this delicate balance, but it seems inevitable that emotions cannot stay buried forever and eventually something has to give.
Selected for: IFF Rotterdam 2014
EFM SCREENINGS:
07.02.2014. 14:45, Dfb-Kino
11.02.2014, 18:45, CinemaxX 14
PAPUSZA, `131, Poland 2013
Directed byJoanna Kos – Krauze & Krzysztof Krauze
Cast: Jowita Budnik, Zbigniew Waleryś, Antoni Pawlicki, Artur Steranko, Andrzej Walden
World Sales: New Europe Film Sales
True story of Papusza - the first Roma woman who put her poems into writing and published them, and therefore confronted the traditional female image in the gypsy community.
The film follows Papusza’s life from birth to old age: arranged marriage as a small girl, her life in a gypsy tabor before, during and after second world war, then forced settlement in communist Poland and urban life in poverty. Her meeting with the Polish poet Jerzy Ficowski, who discovered her great talent for poetry and published her works led to a tragic paradox: a famous poet was living in poverty, rejected by the Roma community, for betraying their secrets.
Selected for: Karlovy Vary 2013 (Special Mention), Thessaloniki FF 2013 (Audience Award), Valladolid IFF 2013 (Best Directors, Best Actor, Young Jury Award), Pune IFF 2014 (Best Film, Best Directors)
EFM SCREENING:
08.02.2014. 19:30, Cine Star 4
WALESA. MAN OF HOPE (Wałęsa, Człowiek Nadzieji), `130, Poland, 2013
Directed by Andrzej Wajda
Cast: Robert Więckiewicz, Agnieszka Grochowska , Maria Rosaria Omaggio, Zbigniew Zamachowski, Cezary Kosiński
World Sales: Films Butique
1970, Gdansk. The communist authorities bloodily repress a workers’ protest. Among them Lech Walesa, an ordinary shipyard worker who tries to deal with daily problems with his wife Danuta. Refusing the rules, he soon start leading a revolution that will end up not only toppling a dictatorship in Poland, but also eating away at the crumbling edifice of the Soviet empire.
Selected for: Venice IFF, Toronto IFF, Busan IFF, Chicago IFF, London IFF
EFM SCREENING:
09.02.2014, 18:15, CinemaxX12
HAPPY BIRTHDAY WOODY ALLEN AND KEEP GOING! `85min, Poland/ USA, 2012
Directed by Dariusz Zawiślak
Cast: Joe Quick, Evgenia Orudzheva, Dariusz Zawiślak, David Bryant
World Sales: Adyton International
Happy Birthday Woody Allen & Keep Going is a farcical look at the independent film industry. A director and his friend loos cash on the way to NYC but still need produce a film, or else. No one is whom they seem and the boundaries between film and real life blur.
EFM SCREENING:
10.02.2014, 13:15, Parliament
GABRIEL, `83, Poland, 2013
Directed by Mikołaj Haremski
Cast: Jan Rotowski, Natan Czyżewski, Jowita Chwałek
World Sales: EastWest Film distribution
Tom likes to race and he is good at it. But life is not that simple, even if are about twelve. The journey seems to be ill–fate at the beginning until Gabriel shows up and proves himself a real friend
EFM SCREENING:
06.02.2014, 16;45, CinemaxX Studio 13(E)
