Short documentary film competition – part III
THURSDAY, 06.03.2025, 10:55-12:45, (LOT CINEMA, ST. POCZTOWA 11)
MUM
A tender look at the relationship between women, whose roles has been reversed by time. A daughter takes care of her 98-year-old mother, but their bond is tested by fading memory. The women cling to memories and skills. Melodies from childhood and pieces of memory bring solace. Ordinary activities take on new meanings and the presence of the other person becomes a source of strength in the face of the inevitable.
PL, 2024, 09:57, dir. Jan Ziewiecki, prod. Maciej Ślesicki – Warsaw Film School
NEEDLE
A punk story about Generation Z without censorship. Oscar, who lives in Toronto, returns to Krakow after many years. He brings with him a baggage of difficult life experiences and a plan for the near future – tattooing. Secretly, in friends’ flats, on the street – whenever he can, he tattoos. News of his work begins to spread around the city, making it easier for him to make new friends with other aspiring artists.
PL, 2023, 29:59, dir. Joseph Gross, prod. Zuzanna Brzezińska
HOW TO LOVE MARTÍNEK
The uncontrollable fits of rage with which the nine-year-old boy vents his difficult past are directed against himself and the human and animal members of his current foster family.
CZE, Jak milovat Martínka, 2024, 27:45, dir. Ludmila Cimbůrková, prod. Tomáš Šimon (FAMU)
TIGER SOUP
The film tells the story of Stasiek, a welder from Poland who emigrated to the USA in the 1970s to work in the world’s largest traveling circus. These are three long years of living in a cramped train car, facing the hardships of emigration and longing for a family. With the first money he earns, Stasiek decides to buy a photo camera and a movie camera to document his time in the US.
PL, 2023, 36:09, dir. Kacper Świtalski, prod. Dominika Trybulec, Kacper Świtalski (Studio Akita)
