18-03-2021

Award-winning films in the programme of the 61st Krakow Film Festival

    The Krakow Film Foundation, the organiser of the 61st Krakow Film Festival announces the first films of this year’s programme! Among the many surprising debuts and long-expected international premieres, there are also 3 remarkable documentary films, which were awarded at the most important film festivals in the world: Sundance, IDFA and Berlinale. 

    From the Berlin International Film Festival, which ended last week, Olga Lucovnicova, the winner of the Golden Bear for the film “My Uncle Tudor” accepted the invitation to Krakow. The director introduces the viewers to the idyllic world of innocent nostalgia. In the intimate close-ups, the camera records images that seem to belong to another era.

    The Sundance Film Festival is the largest independent film festival in the USA. It is there where the premiere of the documentary film “Writing with Fire” by the duo Rintu Thomas and Sushmit Ghosh was held. In spite of the caste dependencies and the strong presence of patriarchy in one of the most conservative states of India, the protagonists of the film by the Dalit woman develop a digital press agency, building an independent and powerful medium in defiance of the tradition.

    Radiograph of a Family, dir. Firouzeh Khosrovan

    Firouzeh Khosrovani is the director of the film “Radiograph of a Family,” which won the main award at the largest documentary film forum IDFA in Amsterdam and the Best Creative Use of Archive award. It is a deeply personal film, depicting the fate of the director’s parents: Hossein – an atheist educated abroad, and Tayi – an orthodox Muslim woman.

    Details

    The 61st Krakow Film Festival will take place from May 30th to June 6th, 2021.

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    Last modified on 19-03-2021