FIVE BEST DOCS OF MARCEL ŁOZIŃSKI ON DOCALLIANCEFILMS.COM
DOC ALLIANCE FILMS is an online portal of Doc Alliance for Video on Demand offering permanent access to 400 outstanding documentaries selected by the five partner festivals. Twenty new films are added monthly and these can be acquired through streaming or download. This month DOC ALLIANCE FILMS presents the best documentaries of Marcel Łoziński which will be available online from 18th of April to 2nd of May.
DOC ALLIANCE FILMS is an online platform for the distribution of documentary and experimental films which was launched by a new initiative for documentary films called DOC ALLIANCE. The aim is to promote creative documentary films on a general market that is less permeable to their circulation and commercialization and systematically support the distribution of documentary films through their festival markets and online platform.
DOC ALLIANCE is a partnership which emerged as a result of the co-operative effort of five key European documentary film festivals – CPH:DOX Copenhagen, DOK Leipzig, IDFF Jihlava, Planete Doc Review Warsaw and VISIONS DU REEL Nyon.
DOC ALLIANCE FILMS follows up the tradition of the Doc-Air portal, an initiative powered by International Documentary Film Festival Jihlava, which was launched in August 2006. During its existence, the portal gathered more than 400 documentary and experimental films and built a unique space for creative documentary films available to both wide audiences and professionals all around the world.
DOC ALLIANCE FILMS offers a selection of important contemporary documentary films from all over the world with an accent on European cinematography. However, not only the contemporary, but also archive documentary films and the greatest documentary works of the past are available on the portal, which thus aspires to become an archive as well. Films by established masters as Ulrich Seidl, Jørgen Leth, Peter Mettler or Helena Třeštíková, by new talents and also students’ films are very welcome at DOC ALLIANCE FILMS.
Two weeks from 18th of April to 2nd of May DOCALLIANCEFILMS.COM brings a unique opportunity to stream 5 awards winning documentary films by Marcel Łoziński for free.
Following films will be available for free streaming:
April 18 - 25
89mm from Europe
Anything Can Happen
So It Doesn't Hurt
April 26 - May 2
How It's Done
Poste Restante
This event is supported by: Andrzej Wajda Master School of Directing, Arkana Studio, Studio Filmowe Kalejdoskop.
Following partners are affiliated: TVP Kultura, Przekrój, Kino, Stopklatka, Gazeta.pl – Kinoplex
About films:
89 MM FROM EUROPE
An impression of a railway station on the border of Poland and Byelorussia, a former Soviet Union. Polish Brzesc-Litevski marks the point where the standard European rail tracks terminate, further to the East they are 89 millimetres wider.
In order for trains to cross the border, rail workers change thousands of wheels for a bigger model, everyday. They are watched through the train windows by French, German and Dutch travellers.
The director builds his film upon this peculiar metaphor derived from the multiplying details of the train change, bringing about a question: where does Europe really end? Do the rails and wheels resemble just the irony of history, or are they a permanent symbol of the divided Christian continent?
The film has won many festival awards and was nominated for Oscar.
ANYTHING CAN HAPPEN
A story of life and death, featuring Lozinski's six-year-old son Tomaszek and elderly people spending time on the benches of a Warsaw park. Riding his scooter, Tomaszek asks the elderly very adult, though basic, questions, which they are happy to answer. The boy's ideas of future and life are confronted with those of men at the end of their lives.
SO IT DOESN'T HURT
Second part of WIZYTA, made twenty-four years later. Urszula Flis, the woman who runs a country farm on her own, is revisited by the photo-reporter Erazm Ciolek and the "Gazeta Wyborcza" journalist Agnieszka Kublik. The film makes a reference to the first visit, which focused on the interference of the media in Flis's life, the attempts of the communist Polish propaganda to manipulate her. A film about loneliness, lost (or won?) life, the limits of filmmakers' interference in the life of a documentary protagonist. Flis herself sets such a limit, saying "let it not hurt".
HOW IT'S DONE
Piotr Tymochowicz Public Relations advisor has decided to prove that anybody can be molded into a politician.
POSTE RESTANTE
Letters whose addresses are impossible to find end up at the Undeliverable Letters Department of the Post Office in Koluszki. There are around a million of them in Poland each year, among them those addressed to God. The film tells a story of one of those letters.
More at: docalliancefilms.com.