Krakow 2020

Festival and Industry prizes awarded June 6. Best film prize to Acasa, My Home (Romania, Finland, Germany). FIPRESCI award to The Self Portrait (Norway).

Like the festival (which kicks off May 31), Krakow Industry will be online in 2020, and offers up a wide range of opportunities to collaborate with the Polish doc industry.

Wolski’s immersion into the Secret Service archives of Poland’s Institute of National Remembrance packs a considerable political punch, and delivers on an aesthetic level too. The director explains all to BDE.

On the eve of the Krakow Film Festival Industry event, Katarzyna Wilk of Polish Docs outlines the effectiveness of the pitch event, and how the switch to online is proving very beneficial in 2020.

Polish Daniel Stopa conducts a very personal investigation into the business of love and matrimony in his latest documentary project, currently in post-production and produced by Staroń Film.

A documentary project about what the filmmakers claim to be the greatest, unfulfilled dream of Polish cinema, the 1970s science fiction epic ‘On the Silver Globe’. Docs to Go! pitch presentation

To call Walk With Angels a tough documentary to make is somewhat of an understatement. During shooting in the townships surrounding Johannesburg, Polish director Tomasz Wysokiński had a shotgun pointed in his face and saw someone murdered in front of him. He tells all to BDE.

In Oscar-nominated Zofia Kowalewska’s feature-length doc debut, the filmmaker travels with her 92-year-old grandfather to a remote village in Kazakhstan, where he was exiled during WWII, in search of his first love.

Polish producer Ania Gawlita (Kijora Film) has a busy festival with two major pitches in KFF Industry and two films in official selection.