JANUARY FESTIVALS
New year brings new festival challenges. During first weeks of 2013 Polish documentary films will be screened at four international film festivals.
A film „Yorzeit” by Zuzanna Solakiewicz that portrays devout Meir Moszkowicz who visits every year the grave of tzadik in a Polish town of Gorlice will have its U.S. premiere during New York Jewish Film Festival. A short documentary by Sławomir Grunberg and Tomasz Wiszniewski entitled „Castaways” will have its world premiere at the same festival. The film tells the story of Jews transported to Treblinka concentration camp during second world war. They were forced to make dramatic decision to throw their children out of the train to save their lives.
The public in Dhaka – the capital city of Bangladesh – will have opportunity to watch „A piece of summer” by Marta Minorowicz that depicts a relationship between a grandfather who lives surrounded by wildlife of Bieszczady mountains and his grandson who comes to spend holidays with him. The film will take part in a competitive section of 13th Dhaka International Film Festival.
“World according to Hania and Staś” directed by Tomasz Jurkiewicz will be screened in a special screening at International Short Film Festival Cinema Perpetum Mobile in Minsk, Belarus. The title characters are a married couple of elder people living in Krakow surroundings. They experience an important social change: their home village is transforming in Krakow’s agglomeration bedroom.
The newest film by Jacek Bławut „Man at war” will compete for awards in a competitive section of 36th Göteborg International Film Festival (Sweden). The director observes the group of gamers from Poland, Germany, Russia and USA who passionately fight in air battles of the computer game „IL-2 Sturmovik”.