Special screenings
Special screenings
Special screenings for people with vision impairments
Aby był pokój i chleb / Let There be Peace & Bread
Reż. /Dir. M. Mularski & U. Laskowska, Poland, 2010, 30’
“Let There be Peace and Bread” is a story both ethnographic and political. A story, in which a small community caught up in big politics finds the strength to survive hardship and to create its own world.
Szermierze dla Palestyny / Fencers for Palestine
Reż. / Dir. M. Mularski i U. Laskowska, Poland, 2009, 30’
“Fencers for Palestine” is a documentary that was shot at the refuge camp Al-Amari at the West Bank, Palestine. As it portrays daily life of young people for whom the camp reality is the only one they know, we have a chance to learn about their problems and dreams.
Toksyczny plac zabaw /Toxic Playground
Reż. / Dir. W. Johansson & L. Edman, Sweden, 2010, 48’
23- year-old Lars, from Sweden, studies film in Chile. 12-year-old Yoselin is a belly dancer and wants to become a doctor, but her hips are beginning to crumble. Lars finds that hundreds of kids in Cerro Chuño have fallen badly ill because of toxic waste from his home town in Sweden.
Zagłosuj na mnie / Please Vote for Me
Reż. / Dir. Weijun Chen, China, 2007, 55’
What would happen if free elections came to China? Is democracy a universal value? In “Please Vote for Me”, a third-grade class at Evergreen Primary School experiences the voting process first-hand by holding an election for Class Monitor, an important, authoritarian position that had previously always been appointed by the teacher.
Special screenings for people with hearing impairments
Planeta Kirsan / Planet Kirsan
Reż. / Dir. Magdalena Pięta, Poland, 2010, 51’
Kalmykia is one of the smallest and poorest republics in the ex-Russian Federation. Its first and only president, Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, built Chess City in the midst of Russian Steppe, and now all the children of Kalmykia play chess. The aim of Ilyumzhinov Revolution was to transform the entire country. Could it possibly change at least the life of a small, 13 year-old boy?
Uciekając z Abdulem /On the Run with Abdul
Reż. / Dir. J. Newton & K. Sorensen & D. Lalé, UK, 2010, 27’
The directors of “On the Run with Abdul” went to Calais to make a documentary about teenage refugees trying to make their way to England. When they meet 16-year-old Afghan Abdul, the story, however, takes a different turn. It is a moving film about the contemporary emigration and about the dilemmas faced by the engaged film-makers.
Special screening addressed to schools
Aby był pokój i chleb / Let There be Peace & Bread
Reż. /Dir. M. Mularski & U. Laskowska, Poland, 2010, 30’
“Let There be Peace and Bread” is a story both ethnographic and political. A story, in which a small community caught up in big politics finds the strength to survive hardship and to create its own world.
Solartaxi. Ze słońcem dookoła świata / Solartaxi. Around the World with the Sun
Reż. / Dir. Erik Schmitt, Germany, 2010, 68’
Meet Louis Palmer and his home-made “Solartaxi”. Full of surprises and apparently insurmountable obstacles, his journey begins in the summer of 2007. Along the way, Louis and his Solartaxi meet princes, movie stars, politicians and scientists, but most importantly, he encounters ordinary people showing them that a car with zero-emission is not a dream.
Szermierze dla Palestyny / Fencers for Palestine
Reż. / Dir. M. Mularski i U. Laskowska, Poland, 2009, 30’
“Fencers for Palestine” is a documentary that was shot at the refuge camp Al-Amari at the West Bank, Palestine. As it portrays daily life of young people for whom the camp reality is the only one they know, we have a chance to learn about their problems and dreams.
Szkoła z blachy / School Made of Tin
Reż. / Dir. K. Tekień i T. Michalczewski, Poland, 2010, 18’
The film tells a story about tough access to education in one of the worst and the biggest slums in the region of East Africa, Mathare Valley (Nairobi, Kenia).
Zagłosuj na mnie / Please Vote for Me
Reż. / Dir. Weijun Chen, China, 2007, 55’
What would happen if free elections came to China? Is democracy a universal value? In “Please Vote for Me”, a third-grade class at Evergreen Primary School experiences the voting process first-hand by holding an election for Class Monitor, an important, authoritarian position that had previously always been appointed by the teacher.
