Krakow 2020

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.