From Brasil to Taiwan, London to Vilnius – audience from all over the world will have an opportunity to watch carefully selected sets of new, exciting Polish short films which capture the essence of so-called “Polish wave”: new developments on the domestic art scene.
POLISH WAVE is a new, multilocational initiative which promotes Polish audiovisual output. It is organized by the Foundation of Cultural Education Ad Arte, the organizer of Short Waves Festival. On the screens will be six unique short films – documents, story, animation and music clip. The project is co-financed by the Polish Film Institute.
The shows list:
16.11. Vilnius | Cinema Skalvija
Organizer: Institute of Polish Culture in Vilnius
19.11. Paris | Le Balzac
Organizer: Polish Institute in Paris
20.11. Berlin | Klub Polskich Nieudaczników
21.11. Sofia | Polish Institute in Sofia
Organizer: Polish Institute in Sofia
22.11. Kaunas | Cinema Centras „Romuva”
Organizer: Institute of Polish Culture in Vilnius
22.11. Brussels | Actor's Studio
Organizer: Polish Institute in Brussels
23.11. Klaipeda | kultūras Fabrikas
Organizer: Institute of Polish Culture in Vilnius
4.12. Yerevan | The Club
7.12. Fortaleza | Cinema do Dragão - Fundação Joaquim Nabuco
Organizer: Honorary Consulate in Fortaleza
16.12. Taipei | WoolloomoolooOut West
Program:
Back Home | dir. Weronika Izdebska
Daniel Spaleniak feat. Katarzyna Kowalczyk, video clip / 2016 / 4,5 min
Expanse. Cool, crisp air, foaming waves washing ashore, a thin line of unattainable horizon in the place where clouds reach the ground. What are you looking for?
Moloch | dir. Szymon Kapeniak
Fiction, 2015, 32 min
Roma, Stach and Woody work illegally in an ailing steelworks. Roma gets into a passionate affair and decides to leave the job. His feelings become a pretext for altering his life, but that does not suit his colleagues. That is how one of a kind version of the Cain and Abel’s story uncovers.
The object | dir. Paulina Skibińska
Documentary / 2015 / 14,5 min
A creative image of a search action played out in two worlds - on an ice desert and under water. The film is narrated from the point of view of the rescue team, the diver stepping into the ice-world and ordinary people waiting ashore.
The end of the world | dir. Monika Pawluczuk
Documentary / 2015 / 40 min
An intimate, creative and very immensely visual documentary where couple of stories weave into one narrative during one night. In a big city, many people are joined in one need - troubled by loneliness, they want to talk to someone. The radio is a motif linking this night’s events - we hear it in the ambulance, in a city’s monitoring centre where we observe the night life of the city presented on dozens of screens. The radio binds the elements of the film together and it is the source of the most important questions.
The deal | dir. Ewa Smyk
Animation / 2015 / 4,5 min
This stop-motion tells us a story of a traditional wedding proposal in the village Dobrowoda in Podlasie, taking place in the 1950s and 1960s. The scenario was based on a portion of a diary belonging to Nicholas Smyk - the author's grandfather. "The agreement" is a personal reflection on the memory of the family.
Grandma’s day | dir. Miłosz Sakowski
Fiction / 2015 / 30 min
Tom needs money. He decides to cheat an elderly woman using the "grandchild" tactic. When it seems that everything goes according to plan, the woman unmasks the impostor and locks him in the apartment. The woman proposes a deal that intertwines their lives in an unexpected way.
Drifting | dir. Michał Marczak
Jacek, Sienkiewicz, clip video / 2015 / 4,5 min
"Drifting" is a trip to a place where music puts souls in an ecstatic trance, where nobody cares about the reality. The clip is a part of Michal Marczak’s feature film "All the sleepless nights", which was awarded at Sundance festival for best direction of a documentary film.
Total time: 98 min
Organizer:
Ad Arte Foundation was created in 2003 in Poznań. The Foundation specializes in popularization of short film forms. Apart from organizing SHORT WAVES FESTIVAL, Ad Arte also functions as Polish representative of FUTURE SHORTS, world’s largest platform for presentation and promotion of short cinema, as well as the WORLD SHORTS cycle of nationwide events for presentation of short cinema from various countries.
More information:
www.adarte.pl/polish-wave
www.shortwaves.pl