Krakow 2020

In Altered States of Consciousness, Polish director Piotr Stasik places kids with autism and Asperger’s syndrome centre stage, and offers a unique glimpse into their, at times, captivating and unconventional minds.

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.

As this is Poland, then there had to be a project about the beautiful game - but producer Maciej Ostatek is looking to make an altogether different kind of football documentary.

Bogna Kowalczyk’s Boylesque tells of 80-year old drag queen Lula who, after the suicide of his best friend, picks himself up, dusts himself down and goes in search of new love.

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.

Marta Duzbabel’s With A Passion Production, founded in 2019, presents two new documentary projects in development, both strong human interest stories, at KFF Docs to Start.

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.

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