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- ...bawmy się razem...Woodstock 2013
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- 1, 2, 3, 4..., 3’
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- 125 Jahre Münchener Oktoberfest, 10’
- 6 000 000, 6’
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- 85625, 18’25’’
Production: PL 2014
When it comes to expression, this documentary is built on: its protagonist's narration, painting, and the director's music. The verbal layer consists of Zbigniew Kołakowski's memories of war. As a teenage boy he survived two concentration camps: in Sachsenhausen and in Flossenburg. He worked at the crematorium. When he got there he thought it would postpone his death by two weeks (that was how often they changed the crematorium staff). It is a powerful film, in the protagonist's own words. And thanks to the protagonist himself – one that gives hope.
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- A Peace of Coal, 3’
Production: GB 1910read more- Comic Acrobats, 5’
Production: IT 1910
read more- Agoust Family of Jugglers, 1’
Production: GB 1898
read more- Raw Tomatoes, 10’35’’
Production: TUR 2014
A documentary with elements of fiction. It tells the story of a family that tries to get by on cultivating tomatoes. The kids are eager to help their elders, because their motivation isn't only to survive, but also to get a bike of their own. The film portrays hard labor, day after day in the family community. It is a portrait of life under harsh conditions, but close to loved ones: the people and the animals. Maturing tomatoes are beautiful. They promise – finally – a reward for the great joint effort. The film's simplicity and its unpredictability work like meditation, like a punch straight to the heart.
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- Amerykanka. All Included, 52’
Production: BY/PL 2014The film tells about well-known journalist and writer Alexander Fyaduta and his life in the Belarussian KGB prison "Amerikanka." 20 years ago he was advisor toLukashenko and helped him win the elections. Then Fyaduta left him and joined the Belarussian opposition. The protagonist was in custody for 110 days after the 2010 presidential election in Belarus and described it in a book. The idea of the film - to shift the disappointing reality of the language of literature, changing the genre from drama to comedy. Thus the terrible State Mechanism portrayed in ironic tones, turns into a caricature of itself. Alexander Fyaduta will take the audience into one of the most secret places in Belarus - “Amerikanka,” not just the real prison, but a drawn and animated version of it.
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- An Indiana Jones Adventure in the Amazing Atun Tunichal Muknal Cave
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- The Anarchist's Mother-in-Law, 4’
Produkction: DK 1906
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- Good bye and Thank You, 2’
Production: FR 1906
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- Auf geht's , 11’
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- Backward Run – Tornistan, 4’
Production: TUR/FR 2014
An animated film inspired by the events that took place in Turkey in the spring of 2013. The series of demonstrations began on May 28th on Taksim Square in central Istanbul. The protests spread to other regions and cities in Turkey. The direct cause of the outbreak was the plan to construct a shopping centre in Taksim Gezi Park, which is located next to the square. The protesters occupied the park, a camping ground developed, the number of participants grew. “Backward run” focuses on the dramatic dispersing of the demonstration and the television's “reaction,” which constituted of airing documentaries on penguins and reports from a beauty pageant. “Backward run” made use of audio recorded during the protest and the pacification of protesters. “The film you are watching has censored itself.”
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- Mustard Footbath, 2’
Production: FR 1902
read more- Court Ladies Bathing, 1’
Production: FR 1904
read more- Betonfraß, 30'
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- Bierkampf , 81’
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- Blink of an Eye, 8’
Production: DE 2015
A portrait develops. Slowly, piece by piece, the image peels away and its content is unclear against the bright white. Is it lifeless as a photographic print or is there something alive?
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- BSB-GRU-EZE, 3’14’’
Production: FR 2015“BSB-GRU-EZE” is a travel between three airports, based on the musical piece “A Sertaneja” written by the Brazilian composer Brasílio Itiberê. The use of acronyms emphasizes the similarity of one trip to another. The short film is inspired by the city of Brasilia. The idea is that in a fictional future our passport number will replace the use of our name. Paris will turn into CDG and the world will become a multitude of airports with people in transit at all times.
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- Cats in Riga, 17’
Production: LVA 2014The view of the Latvian capital through cats’ eyes and ears. While the news media sift through current affairs and the inhabitants of Riga focus on their daily cares, cats are completely occupied by their aimless wanderings through stairways, offices, and apartments, sublimely indifferent to the preposterous hustle and bustle of our civilization. There are hordes of silent witnesses all over the place, looking like they’re keeping a sharp eye on what’s going on around them. This ode to cathood plays with the notion of subjectivity in the perception of the world around us.
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- cdn..., 20’
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- Chapri, 6’
Production: PL 2014
From nothingness, a shapeless structure, by man's hand are fragile layers made. The author shows the hand-crafting of Muslim paper through simple cinematic means: “Light, shadow, and sound form an impressionistic portrait of an ephemeral act.” The craftswoman, Katharina Siedler, uses a technique that traces back to the 8th century. As the director puts it: “The papermaker embodies the process of its crafting.” The film is dedicated to the great French filmmaker Robert Bresson.
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- Ciążę
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- Cities (Potential space), 30’
Production: GER 2014“Cities (Potential space)” provides a thematic context to potential spaces in the city; the opening up of urban spaces raises the question of to what extent life can be shaped. The city is unaware of stillness; it changes, perishes, emerges anew, always in a state of becoming. The shape the city could assume, how it will appear in the future – these are the aspects explored in the film. The investigated concepts include urban visions and city models, spatial and temporal passages, borderlines, places of transition and thresholds. The source material for “Cities (Potential space)” are 9 sequential photo works depicting urban experiences with potential spaces. Each city is described (in a manner similar to Italo Calvino in “Le città invisibili” by concentrating on a personal, emotional aspect of urban life.
read more- Cobain: Montage of Heck, 144'
Production: USA 2015
Hailed as one of the most innovative and intimate documentaries of all time. Experience Kurt Cobain like never before in the only ever fully authorised portrait of the famed music icon.
Academy Award nominated filmmaker Brett Morgen expertly blends Cobain’s personal archive of art, music, never seen before films, animation and revelatory interviews from his family and closest friends.
Wildly creative and highly acclaimed, follow Kurt from his earliest years in this visceral and detailed cinematic insight of an artist at odds with his surroundings.
Fans and those of the Nirvana generation will learn things about Cobain they never knew while those who have recently discovered the man and his music will know what makes him the lasting icon that he still is today.
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- Collecting Is a Disease, 15’
Production: NL 2014
Geert Verbeke sold animal food. He was selling a lot, so he established and developed a transport company. One day he sold off the company equipment that was dispensable and kept what could be useful in his new life: the life of a collector and exhibition arranger. Since 2007 he's been running a foundation, collecting chiefly surreal Belgian collages and assemblages. In his own words: “Surrealism is typically Belgian. It's an integral part of us.” Inspired by the nature of the collection, the place of exhibition, and the collector's personality, Kuba Szutkowski created his documentary, which takes us to a place that combines the surrealism of nature, art, and the industrial.
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- CONVERSATIONS, 21’
Productions: NL 2014
In the essay collage film “Conversations” the filmmaker unravels the hidden meanings of the personal archive of her grandmother. Her sight takes its place inside a feminine chain of memories. The film shows how objects can have an additional unexpected layer of meanings. As it turns out they connect to the Jewish background of her grandmother. The film is formed like a book, in three chapters with a special emphasis on text and voice.
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- Coogan´s Bluff - Her Tears, 4'40''
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- Córy Wody, 24'
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- Curonia, 41’30’’
Production: EST/LTU 2015
The Curonian Spit of coastal Lithuania is a place under constant transition, from various people who have inhabited it, right through to the geographical construction of the land itself. “Curonia” explores the relationship between the artist and the environment of the peninsula through an artistic process of discovery that revolves around sound and focusing on it. The ephemeral elements, materials and objects found on location provided a rich palette for exploration through both passive observation and active engagement. “Curonia” is not only about listening but also illustrates a method for perceiving the environments we inhabit. The film was born out of an artist residency in late 2011 with a follow-up visit in spring 2014, during which daily excursions were made into the landscape to research, collect, and perform on location.
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- Czcij ojca swego, 16'
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Production: FR 1919
read more- Daugava Delta, 20’
Production: LV/GER 2014
Far from the centre of the city Riga and separated by the historical Spilve Airport with adjoining large allotment site, the suburbs Bolderāja and Daugavgrīva are a kind of social island or biotope – a blend of apartment and detached family houses, backyards, shipyards, docks, yacht club, sea academy, historic fortress and barracks. Here, where Daugava River flows into the Bay of Riga, anglers crowd the sunny mole during the spawning season of sprat, whereas veterans in the local pub are in memorial of their fallen fathers on Victory Day (День Победы).
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- On the Hedgehog, 2’06’’
Production: PL 2014
Obrazki nunu and Discarding Images present: the first nature film based on medieval bestiaries.
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- Der echte Liliom , 43’
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- Der Wiesnpostbote, 17’
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- Die Wikinger
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- Directed by Tweedie, 16’
Production: SCT 2014
Making a film when you're 87 is less than convenient. As granddad Tweedie reluctantly takes up his new role as a filmmaker, we’re invited to examine the difficulties of communication between the generations, whilst exploring that unspoken contract that binds children to their grandparents. Will Tweedie start to see the world differently when looking at things through the lens of his 23-year- old grandson, or will he simply be wondering what's for pudding?
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- Dlaczego umysł jest w głowie?
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- Doing Time, Doing Vipassana, 52’
Production: IND/IL 1997Two women filmmakers from Israel, Ayelet Menahemi and Eilona Ariel, initiated this independent project. In the winter of 1994-95 they spent five months in India, doing intensive research on the use of Vipassana as a rehabilitation method and its dramatic impact on foreign and Indian prisoners. The authorities were unusually cooperative, allowing the team free access to two Indian jails. The documentary begins with the story of Tihar Prison - a huge and notorious institution housing 10,000 inmates, 9,000 of them awaiting trial. When a new Inspector General, Kiran Bedi, was posted there in 1993, Tihar entered period of rapid-fire change.
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- Domain and Range, 6’
Production: FR 2015
An anecdote about a dead lizard in a French vineyard accidentally run over by the winegrower’s tractor serves as a pretext to explore family history which in turn raises questions concerning the relationship between art and deterministic belief systems and between man and nature, etc. The notion of transformation is explored both in terms of the content of the film and the effect of filming itself. The title refers to a mathematical concept related to set theory.
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- Dr. Macintyre's X-Ray Cabinet, 1’
Production: GB 1909
read more- Dr. Macintyre's X-Ray Film, 1’
Production: GB 1896
read more- The Annoying Mistake, 1’
Production: FR 1905
read more- Father0, 44’
A film story about the different relations between young boys and their fathers – ones who are absent, unknown. The boys try to face them, and some of them also try to grow up to be fathers themselves, though they have not been prepared for that at all. What will happen to them?The film is a result of the collaborative, narrational work of ArtCrew group members, based at the MOW (Youth Educational Centre) in Trzebież. The film's screenwriter and director, Konrad Pachciarek, talked to the boys and listened to their stories, which he then shaped into a film narrative, at the same time trying to keep as much as possible from the young actors' lifestyle, internal relations, and language.FATHER0 features the music and musicians of the band Luxtorpeda.
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- Figure, 9’
Production: PL 2015
It's white and windy all around. A gigantic figure emerges from behind the snow curtain and hits the road. It passes towns, villages, houses, to land on top of a hill, next to spiders, saints and bumper cars. “Figure” is a surreal tale about creating myths, about religious kitsch, and about the desire for greatness. Who is our protagonist? The world's largest sacral miniature park resident. A gigantic, white contradiction.
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- Józef Broda Philosophy , 23’30’
Production: PL 1991
Apparently at some point at the Film School in Łódź there was a waiting list for people making films about Józef Broda, teacher and musician from the Beskids... We had shot our film before Broda has even been discovered as an extraordinarily colourful and interesting figure. In the face of today's disputes on patriotism and the love for one's homeland (both little and great) – it can serve as a voice in the discussion.
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- Forgotten Ritual, 10’22’’
Production: DE 2015
7 seconds in. 11 seconds out. The electricity is turned on and we hear the sound of an operating system starting up. The smart phone is connected to the laptop, a cup of milk is filled. The computer is dust free, charged and ready. Ritual completed. The searching for “Fulfillment” starts. BREATH feels ignored because of HUMAN’S favorite electronic tool and starts to complain about HUMAN’s priorities. Remembering all its capabilities, BREATH reaches out to HUMAN for the last time...
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- Fox Terriers and Rats, 1’
Production: FR 1902
read more- Friday Child, 16’51’’
Production: FI 2014
“Viikonloppulapsi” is about a mother and her daughter, who only see each other on weekends. During the week Tinja lives with her father, dreams about cows and misses her mother, who is struggling with alcoholism but loves her daughter and wishes to one day be able to live a normal life with her. When Tinja visits mom, life is an adventure; dressing up as ghosts, dancing and singing quirky songs. It's a melancholic, yet hilarious story that allows the viewer to realize things are not always black and white.
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- fun_ambule, 5’
On the line, concentration, calmness, and balance decide on success or failure. The smallest hint of distraction can disrupt the balance and end in a fall. How difficult is it when chirping and fluttering put the acrobat's skills to the test?
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- Game of Senses, 3’42’’
Production: PL 2014
The story of a character deprived of his senses, who regains consciousness in the middle of an arena during a certain spectacle. Thus begins a game which requires the character to recover his “senses.”
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- Ginsberg albo malaria, 8'
- Gnuśna linia, 5’
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- GRENZE/GRANICA, 43’34’’
A Polish female volleyball team and a coach that doesn't speak Polish. A hospital in Brandenburg, where Polish doctors encounter Polish patients. An artist who “terminates” the border and creates a new, common space. “GRENZE/GRANICA” is a visual journey along the Polish-German border. It begins in Szczecin and leads as far as Görlitz and Zgorzelec. Throughout its 45 minutes, the documentary shows seven examples of Polish-German life – from various angles, but always from a German and Polish point of view. The border is open – how does this influence the people who live here? Free of prejudice, the film documents life in a region that wants to be something more than just the outskirts of Poland or Germany – it is, after all, the centre of Europe.
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- Halo! Uwaga!
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- The Stories of Lord Christ, 22’
Production: PL 2015
The story of “a true artist without professional patronage” had been created for many years and in many places. The first stage took place in 1999-2000, when the audio version of the finished text was produced. The material was then repeatedly processed and edited. Finally the picture was produced, as planned from the very beginning. The text has been created in Vienna, the soundtrack in Szczecin, the video in Berlin. The screening at SEFF'15 is a world premiere of the audio-video material.The project is the result of work by a group whose members have never met together in full. Bartosz Wójcik is the author of the idea and of the text. The creations of Piotr Klimek, responsible for the soundtrack, and Michał Kosakowski, who made the video are, however, original in their nature.
read more- Honor, 10'
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- The Horrible End of a Caretaker, 2’
Production: FR 1903read more- Idę..., 3’
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- Impulsatory, 4’
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- Indiana Jones and the Staff of Moses
read more- Interlude, 12’31’’
Production: GRC 2014
“Interlude” is a poetic short documentary which can be considered as an essay film. The main theme is the mountain Pelion, the hook-like peninsula between Aegean Sea and Pagasetic Gulf. Through an elliptical narrative, use of keywords, and absolute immobility of the camera, the film attempts an aesthetic observation on space and time in between stillness and motion, based on director's subjective point of view.
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- Jadziu, odbierz telefon..., 5’
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- James Bond 007: One Last Shot
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- Jealous Guy, 4’42’’
Production: NOR 2014
In this 3D animation, as in all good political fiction, anything is possible. But it also touches upon reality in a way that is subversive and poignant. The color of the Moscow square is an element of its name, and it could be changed (if only Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin wanted to). The author dedicated “Jealous guy” to the “Pussy Riot” activists, Edward Snowden, and everyone working for homosexuals' rights under difficult and dangerous conditions.
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- Jebać biedę
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- Johannes Meißner - Laub im Garten Eden, 4'41''
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- The Stones of Juliusz N., 18’30’’
Produkction: PL 1991
Juliusz Naumowicz was a widely known figure in the Karkonosze Mountains (he died two years ago). For many years he “plundered the soil,” searching for minerals and gems. When we met him, he was several months after his accident (he had fallen off a rock, the earth had “shrugged him off”). What kind of life awaits him?
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- Caribbean in Kolobrzeg, 8’48’’
Production: PL 2002
A reportage from the one-of-a-kind annual congress of the Republica Caribena de los Marineros. Here's how one can create an alternative world that is much more fun than the one we live in normally.
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- Woman and the Stones, 13’
Production: PL 2000
A reportage about a woman who, in the wake of the national system reform, lost everything she had. She gets by on collecting stones from fields and selling them to the road authorities.
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- Koncert na głowę, 4’30”
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- End of the World, 40’
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- Krótki film, żeby tylko zaliczyć
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- The Amblystoma, 7’
Production: FR 1913
read more- The Mysterous Man, 6’
Production: FR 1910
read more- The Turn-of-the-Century Barber, 1’
Production: FR 1896
read more- Chrysis Waking, 1’
Production: FR 1907
read more- The King of Dollars, 2’
Production: FR 1905
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- Lekarze dusz, 10'
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- Len Lu..., 2‘
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- Better Than Birds , 20’22’’
Production: PL 1977A double debut: that of the author and of the cinematographer, Tomasz Kosior. A group portrait of three aviators from Szczecin, who do plane acrobatics (with success in sports). We tried to convey the characteristic atmosphere of the airfield and the acrobatic flight itself. The film was broadcast nationally by Studio 8.
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- The Erudite Dogs, 5’
Production: FR 1907read more- The Kiriki, Japanese Acrobats, 3’
Production: FR 1907
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- Tulips, 4’
Production: FR 1907
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- Leslie's Journey, 76’
Production: ESP 2014
In June 1943, a German JU-88 squadron shot down a passenger airplane off the coast of Cedeira (Galicia, Spain). There were no survivors. Among the passengers there was a distinguished personality, Leslie Howard. He was a Jew, an anti-Nazi propagandist, a Hollywood dandy. History is frequently written with forgotten fragments. This is the tale of what may or may not have been the story of Leslie Howard’s last Journey.
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- Glues Lips, 2’
Production: FR 1906
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- Madama Butterfly, 5’13’’
Production: DE 2015
“Madama Butterfly” is a marionette film about an explosive opera performance with ripping consequences.
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- Manifest Energetyczny, 2’
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- MEMORIES OF A FILM, 26’
This documentary project aims to study movie theatres and the movie experience. Cities have been losing their temples of cinema. The act of going to the cinema is losing social importance. People do not go to the dark room in search of the dream. The film used to be experienced and felt together. Today, we are alone. Like these places that are isolated, without public, without projectionists, without films, without cinema. The habit of going to the cinema has been lost. We do not dream. The memories of these places and the ones who went there and lived there, with emotion and the cinema, are gone. But some memories remain, the memories of a film. A temple. A ritual. Multiple experiences.
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- Miss Harry's Snake Woman, 3’
Production: FR 1911
read more- Mister James, 20’
Production: GER/ISR 2014
For thousands of years, pilgrims of different religions have been visiting the city of Jerusalem, in order to encounter transcendental experiences. Some of these pilgrims, however, are likely to suffer delusions, for they shall identify themselves with a holy persona. Psychiatrists came to call this phenomenon “The Jerusalem Syndrome.” Mister James has now lived in Jerusalem as Jesus for 5 years. With no place to stay, no money and no shoes he is now pursuing his self-proclaimed call. Having attracted the attention of Jerusalem’s tourists, the modern evangelist has not taken the easy way, for there is an increasing amount of people declaring him insane and questioning his way of life. As the film follows Mister James on his pilgrimage through the holy land, social, political, cultural and religious differences and dimensions of the region become visible.
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- Moje Wideomasochizmy, 5’
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- Mordę skuję, 4’
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- Mother-Rhythm, 11’44’’
Production: IT 2014
“Mother-Rhythm” is a video that chronicles the relationship of the author with her mother, using a hybrid and experimental language that blends the styles of creative documentary, family photographic repertoire and performance art. The project is like an open artistic diary which in the course of time collects unexpected and heterogeneous materials in the form of video, performative interventions, digital art, texts, artifacts, installations. It is an exploratory trip in and out of the author that sometimes takes the form of a psychomagic ritual.
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- Talk to Me, 44’
Production: PL 2015
The protagonist of “Mów do mnie” is 21-year old Krzysiek, a marijuana addict who lives in Warsaw's Monar. The film is not another narrative about addiction, it tells a story of the relationship between the protagonist and the director; an unusual example of how life enters film, putting both the protagonist and the author in a difficult situation. It is a story about a feeling being born, about fighting one's weaknesses, and also about growing up. This topic, close to many documentary filmmakers, in “Mów do mnie” is both universal and full of individual tension. The documentary talks about how the creator becomes the protagonist of her own film, and about the weight of responsibility both for oneself and for the other person.
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- Mrożek. Life is worth living, 40’
Mrożek jokes during breakfast. Mrożek sings old Spanish songs. Mrożek talks about his attachment to Polish dried sausage and pickles. In other words: Mrożek “here and now,” who, perhaps to much surprise, is funny. In a way, the film “debunks” the stereotypical image of Mrożek the eccentric. It is a direct step into the “private room.” The very personal record of life fragments that simply show a person. Nobody has ever seen Mrożek like this. The documentary sheds an entirely new light on the Master. A positive light that will give rise to another, yet completely new discussion on this great Pole. Music by Armand Amar, Adam Klocek, and Zbigniew Preisner. The films also features: Jerzy Stuhr, Andrzej Seweryn, Jarosław Gajewski, Ryszard Szewczyk, Władysław Wolter. Produced by The Sławomir Mrożek Foundation.
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- München: Oktoberfest, 2’
- Münchener Oktoberfest , 12’
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- Münchener Oktoberfest , 9’
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- Naked Island, 75'
Production: HR 2014
Some sixty years ago, a man went missing for four years. He returned a changed man carrying along a painful secret. He later built his family’s life around this unspoken of secret. Talking about the past was forbidden in the family. It was his granddaughter, also the director of this film, who first started asking questions, wanting to find out what lay hidden beneath her grandfather’s scar covered body ever since childhood. However, he died without revealing the entire story to anyone.
“Naked Island” is an investigation built upon the ruins of the past, a mosaic made of clues – family photos and intimate testimonies of a tight-knit group of people who were brought together by the same place, an island of broken souls, and consequences that this place left on three generations.
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- Nancy Sinatra – Friday's Child, 3'30”
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- The Cover Story, 55’
Production: HR 2014In 2013, Croatia has entered the fifth year of recession, with unemployment of 20 percent. It joined the European Union, but at the same year conservative activists banned gay marriages there. Despite all these events, the most popular news in 2013, according to Croatian online portals, was the tragic death of Dolores Lambaša. The young actress was very keen on trying to get the public to like her, but wasn’t successful in her efforts. Everyone loved to hate her. The documentary observes the final year of the young actress’s life and her intense relationship with the media.
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- Nicole, 3’17’’
Production: DE 2014
Two years ago I accidentally stumbled upon an old book about bizarre cases from the 19th century. Something that strongly contributed to the ghostly spirits of this collection was the presence of damaged old black-and-white photo inbetween the pages, with the barely distinguishable face of a young girl. On the back was a sentence which I couldn't make sense of. The only thing I could recognize was a name – Nicole.
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- Niemals einpullern, während ihr träumt, 8'35''
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- Film surprise vol. 1.
The story of the creator and the first director of the FBI, starring Leonardo DiCaprio.
read more- Film surprise vol. 10.
The story of the first hijacking of an American ship in 200 years. The captain of Maersk Alabama and his crew are being attacked by Somali pirates. Starring Tom Hanks.
read more- Film surprise vol. 11.
Johny Depp, as the protagonist, will take us into the world of drugs of the 80s. The story of a drug lord who introduced a new drug to the market – heroin.
read more- Film surprise vol. 12.
The story of the most deadly sniper in the history of the USA, awarded member of the Navy Seals.
read more- Film surprise vol. 13.
Afghanistan, year 2005, operation “Red Wings,” the tragic story of the elite Navy SEALs division, starring Mark Wahlberg.
read more- Film surprise vol. 14.
One day the protagonist finds himself trapped in in a slot canyon, which becomes his nightmare for 127 hours. A film about persistence, the will to fight, and the boundaries of human endurance.
read more- Film surprise vol. 15.
The second World War. Enigma tips the balance in Germany’s favour. The story of a man who, against all odds and accusations, breaks the Enigma code, which results in the creation of one of the biggest inventions of our days – the computer.
read more- Film surprise vol. 2.
The story of an American congressman, who supported Afghanis in their war with the Soviet Union. We have been experiencing the effect of his actions to this very day...read more- Film surprise vol. 3.
The history of lawsuits in which the protagonist, played by Al Pacino, is fighting for the right of terminally ill people to have a dgnified death.
read more- Film surprise vol. 4.
The 1970s. The story of a man described as one of the most important martyrs of the gay movement in the USA. Starring Sean Penn.
read more- Film surprise vol. 5.
A cult film series by Robert Zemeckis about time travellers and their extraordinary DeLorean car – a time vehicle. A little confrontation of the film’s vision of the future with reality.
read more- Film surprise vol. 6.
The story of a genius mathematician who confuted the theory of Adam Smith, the father of contemporary economy. Starring Russel Crowe.
read more- Film surprise vol. 7.
After apartheid has been abolished, South Africa is still divided. The new president, Nelson Mandela, convinces a rugby coach to work with him, and gives him a goal – to unite the country through a fight for the world championship. Starring Morgan Freeman and Matt Damon.
read more- Film surprise vol. 8.
A story about Jewish fugitives from a Nazi camp who set up a settlement in the forests of Belarus, where over a thousand people find shelter. Starring Daniel Craig, Liev Schreiber.
read more- Film surprise vol. 9.
Winner of three Academy Awards (including one for best film), it is a story of a man who was kidnapped and sold as a slave in the South of the USA in the first half of the 19th century. His nightmare lasted a long 12 years.
read more- Invisible, 22’
Production: PL 2014
We meet the film's protagonist, Mrs Krystyna, in her tiny flat filled with books, notepads, written-on pieces of paper. She is often visited by a secretary, who helps her with writing down poetry that has been springing up every day for many years. Now Mrs Krystyna is the whirl of preparations for another presentation of her work. The organisational details of this endeavour are as important as the poems, since Mrs Krystyna is blind. Dependent on others' assistance when it comes to contact with the outside world, she is both vigorous and dedicated to her passion.
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- Notebook
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- Nur der Pole bringt die Kohle, 84‘
The border between Poland and Germany fell in 2004. At first the Poles feared that their rich neighbours would buy up their land and property. Ten years later things look different: a new movement has started in the almost abandoned villages of the provincial East German border regions. The drop in real estate prices made a region that until recently attracted attention only because it was depopulated, attractive to Polish families from the wider Szczecin area. They earn enough money to afford houses here and at the same time live near their workplaces. The Poles are conquering the lonely expanse of their West. The only working mobile phone network is Polish, the real estate companies are firmly under Polish control, the local building society is advertising German child benefits. The new arrivals learn German and send their children to the European School. A whimsical sociological study about cheap real estate, typical Poles and Germans, the other and the new Europe.
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- O palcach, 5’
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- Oktoberfest, 10'
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- Oktoberfest, 17’
- Oktoberfest, 8’
- The Gleiwitz Case, 67‘
The film treats of the provocation by SS members, which started World War 2 on September 1st 1939. With the accuracy of a reportage, the film pictures the activities of the radio station in Gliwice, right on the Polish border. The perfect language of the film reveals one of the actions thanks to which nationalists have deceived the world as to who is responsible for the outbreak of the war.
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- Pasaż energetyczny, 4’
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- Maybe Darkness, 25’52’’
Production: FR 2014
An old Mediterranean family flat remained at a standstill for 150 years, as if stuck in time. Years pass by as generations come back to it every summer for holidays. The film exploresthe blurring of different timescapes in the space of the flat, intertwining the visual presences of the dead ancestors and the fleeting apparitions of the living family members. Through fragmented voices “Maybe Darkness” questions one’s relationship with familial past and cherished places.
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- Photography of a Star, 2’
Production: FR 1906
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- Shepherd’s Song, 30’
Production PL 2014
Somewhere in the high mountains of Armenia, there lives the blind shepherd Khachik. In spite of all the adversities, he has set up a family and leads a quiet life, single-handedly herding his goats on the steep slopes. However, when it turns out that his only son is losing his sight too and has to move to Yerevan to attend a school for the blind, Khachik faces a dilemma: should he keep on living the life of a humble shepherd, or should he move to the capital city too to be with his son? This is a difficult choice for him as he strongly believes that blindness is a curse hanging over his family, and that the only living a devout life in the mountains can lift it.
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- Plastischer Wiesnbummel , 8’
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- Poszukiwacz
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- First Prize in Cello, 3’
Production: Francja 1907
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- Prostokąt dynamiczny, 5’
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- PSI
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- RekonGrodek, 17’
Production: DE/PL/USA 2014
“What clues are you looking for? What clues? The death of Georg Trakl, insanity, hallucinatory prophecy, the nightmare of history, a vortex filtering reality through a morbidly confused mind. What clues are you looking for?” These questions are brought up by the experimental “RekonGrodek,” whose authors, through dark imagery, relate to the assumed suicide of poet Georg Trakl. It happened in a military hospital in Cracow in 1914. Conscripted in August, Trakl participated in one of the first battles: the unbelievably bloody battle of Gródek. Drafted as a pharmacist, he did not have a chance to help the dying and the suffering. His last poem, “Grodek,” was written after these events.
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- Reverse, 4’43’’
Production: UA 2014
This film tells us the story of several people who are homeless and thrown out of the strictly walking ranks of society. Life moves and people also move in it. People don't look around and don't look back. Their way is to move forward only. The rest of them, who have remained roadside, become only missing in silence.
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- Rilke, 6'30”
read more- Roskun (Inordinatio Inordinati), 1’53’’
Production: PL 2015
If single socks suddenly start disappearing and everything around you is a mess, it's a clear sign that your home has become the lair of Roskun, a small demon of disorder and chaos. Although this film offers no solution, perhaps it will help you understand why it is that everything is falling apart around you.
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- Rund um den Zubanturm, 11’
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- Rynek, 6’
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- Saida has kidnapped the Manneken Pis, 7’
Production: BE 1913
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- Pornographic Scene, 2’
Production: FR 1909
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Production: FR 1908
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- Sexy laundry, 12’
German-Polish-Canadian film co-production, in the emergence of which Szczecin played an important role. The picture is an adaptation of a theatre play by the Canadian author Michele Riml. Its protagonists are Alice and Henry – a couple of fifty-year-olds tha have been maried for 25 years and became trapped in routine. They try to reignite the flame in a luxury hotel, where they are spending the weekend.In the Polish language version the voiceover is done by actors from Szczecin – Beata Zygarlicka and Konrad Pawicki. The film was shot in Berlin and Szczecin. Post-production and distribution of the film was done by the renowned Canadian film agency National Film Board, winner of multiple Oscars for short films. The music score was composed by Normand Roger, author of soundtrack to 6 Oscar productions.The film has been co-financed by the Polish Film Institute and the Westpomeranian Film Fund POMERANIA FILM.The Szczecin Academy of Art and the 13muz Cultural Centre are strategic partners of the project.
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- Short Film about Life, 2’
Production: LV 2014
If, in the words of the legendary bard, “all the world’s a stage,” then the scenes recorded by an unmoving camera on an ordinary football field are its pure essence. Over the course of just two minutes, this cinematic miniature unfolds a story filled with concentration, hope, disappointment, friendship, and the collegiality of sport. A football microcosm in a nice nutshell.
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- Smart Dress Is Absolutely Essential, 7’30’’
Production: PL 2015
The film is a study for a larger work that refers to the Bataille-esque theme of transgression and retaining that which is transgressed.
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- The Real Dreams, 10’54’’
Production: PL 2014
The film consists of time-lapse images taken in different spaces converted into camera obscura. These are: the igloo, hunting pulpit, cave, tent, boat and caravan. The author shows the magical aspect of photography that appears spontaneously in nature and is omnipresent. Inside a closed, darkened space you need to create a small hole to be able to admire moving projections of reality. The external view of the world is inverted inside the room, so two spaces merge into one extraordinary image. The author selected the spaces which are , to a degree, shelters: “When I am hidden inside, I am simultaneously an observer of the outside world and the background to the projection of nature. It is, in a sense, a work about me, about my deep connection with nature.”
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- Soft grid - Hospital floor
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- Stories from the Wars, 5’09’’
Production: SE 2014
Hundred years have passed since the beginning of World War 1, 75 years since the beginning of World War II. In a world where the ongoing conflicts are shielded away from the European adults and youths who never experienced war, there arise questions of whose wars we remember and tell stories about. The sordid images of repelling bunkers which the author uses situate these war stories far away from pop-culture adventures.
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- Subbotnik – Pińata, 3'12''
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- The World According to Oliver, 15’
Production: PL 1993
The peculiar world of 7-year-old Oliver, who lives on board of the boats of his father, a German owner of sailing ships. His room is a cabin, he is walked to school by a shipmate, and his best friend's a boatswain...
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- Sztuka postkonsumpcyjna
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- Sztuka to potęga!, 8’
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- Taxi Teheran, 82'
Production: IRN 2015
A regular day in Tehran. The congested traffic is spotted with yellow taxi cabs. One of the cars roaming around this gigantic metropolis is different: it has an industrial camera attached to its dashboard, and its driver is Jafar Panahi, the director of the film. His clients include simple people and intellectuals, friends and perfect strangers, random individuals in need and family members with an appointment for the ride.
“Taxi” is a beautiful audiovisual postcard from Iran, in which a documentary view of reality surrounding the director replaces exotic views. It is one of the reasons for which this year's Berlinale jury were enamoured of the film and awarded it with the main prize – the Golden Bear, and so were the journalists, who gave it the FIPRESCI prize.
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- TEST 1, 6’
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- The Adventures of "Wee Rob Roy" No. 1, 4’
Production: GB 1916
read more- The Dhamma Brothers, 56’
Produkction: USA 2008
East meets West in the Deep South. An overcrowded maximum-security prison-the end of the line in Alabama's correctional system-is dramatically changed by the influence of an ancient meditation program. Behind high security towers and a double row of barbed wire and electrical fence dwells a host of convicts who will never see the light of day. But for some of these men, a spark is ignited when it becomes the first maximum-security prison in North America to hold an extended Vipassana retreat, an emotionally and physically demanding course of silent meditation lasting ten days. “The Dhamma Brothers” tells a dramatic tale of human potential and transformation as it closely follows and documents the stories of the prison inmates at Donaldson Correctional Facility who enter into this arduous and intensive program.
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