Radiograph of a Family, dir. Firouzeh Khosrovani
Organisers of the 61st Krakow Film Festival announced April 7 the fourteen films selected for International Documentary Competition 2021.
Writes the festival: “Another edition of the Krakow Film Festival, taking place in difficult times for the world and culture, is ahead of us. The latest films from all over the world, qualified for the prestigious documentary film competition, will take the viewers on a journey to an alternative reality without any traces of the pandemic, but full of equally serious problems.”
The films will compete for the Golden and Silver Horns in front of the international jury. Among them are 2 Polish productions.
Comments Anita Piotrowska, film critic and the documentary curator of the Krakow Film Festival: “We will show films that present both the dark and the bright sides of the contemporary world. The competition films deal with personal and collective traumas, record various tensions and turmoil, but are also a record of changes taking place in different areas of our globe – mainly thanks to the unconventional heroes and heroines.”
Adds Krzysztof Gierat, director of the Krakow Film Festival: “As always, the international documentary competition will take us on a trip around the world, the filmmakers reveal to us fascinating stories and extraordinary protagonists from the Republic of South Africa, Cambodia, the USA, Sweden, Russia, Mongolia, India, Hong Kong, Korea, Iran and Syria.”
The selected films are:
- No Hero at All, dir. Michał Kawecki, Poland, 2021
- The Red Ring, dir. Joonas Berghäll, Finland, 2021
- North by Current, dir. Angelo Madsen Minax, the USA, 2021
- Children of the Enemy, dir. Gorki Glaser-Müller, Sweden, 2021
- The Wheel, dir. Nomin Lkhagvasuren, Mongolia, 2020
- Blue Code of Silence, dir. Magnus Skatvold, Gregory Mallozzi, Norway, 2020
- Writing with Fire, dir. Rintu Thomas, Sushmit Ghosh, India, 2021
- The Man Who Paints Water Drops, dir. Oan Kim, Brigitte Bouillot, France, South Korea, 2020
- Radiograph of a Family, dir. Firouzeh Khosrovani, Norway, Iran, Switzerland, 2020
- Walk with Angels, dir. Tomasz Wysokiński, Poland, 2021
- Lost Boys, dir. Joonas Neuvonen, Sadri Cetinkaya, Finland, 2020
- Dad Shot Them, dir. Per Anders Rudelius, Sweden, 2020
- Inside the Red Brick Wall, dir. Hong Kong Documentary Filmmaker, Hong Kong, 2020
- Life of Ivanna, dir. Renato Borrayo Serrano, Russia, Norway, Finland, Estonia, 2021
The Krakow Film Festival is an Academy Award-qualifying festival in the feature-length documentary film category, with the winner of the Golden Horn on a “fast track” to Academy Awards selection. The KFF also qualifies films for Academy Award consideration in the short film categories (animated, documentary film), and recommends films for the European Film Award in the same categories.
The full programme will be published in mid-May. The 61st Krakow Film Festival will take place from May 30 to June 6 2021.
