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Szapołowska, Szczepkowska, Baka, Zanussi and Zamachowski on The Golden Lions of Krzysztof Kieślowski. Celebrating 50 years of PFF in Gdynia!
To mark the 50th anniversary of the Polish Film Festival in Gdynia, we have included a special section – The Golden Lions of Krzysztof Kieślowski, featuring three films by the outstanding director that were honored with this prestigious award. The screenings will be accompanied by an open meeting with Krzysztof Kieślowski’s family and friends. More »
Katarzyna Warnke to receive the FLISAK Award from the President of Toruń at the 23rd edition of the BellaTOFIFEST International Film Festival!
Katarzyna Warnke — a film and theatre actress, film director and screenwriter, an unconventional and rebellious artist — is this year's winner of the oldest award given at the BellaTOFIFEST IFF! More »
Kazik Staszewski to Receive the Golden Angel Award for Artistic Insolence!
At the 23rd BellaTOFIFEST International Film Festival, the Golden Angel for Artistic Insolence will be presented to a bold, outspoken and uncompromising artist who possesses a remarkable ability to capture the mood of his audience and translate it into art. More »
Marek
Marek · dir. Dariusz Gackowski
Poland 2008, 3’
The director jokes that longer he tells about this film than is needed to watch it. In fact, it is more a mini-study than film, a short, optimistic story about Marek Andruszewski — a blind musician and Brail textbooks author. If someone loses sight and does not shoot himself, it’s a good sign says the main character and this is a key to the story about a man who found the way in his life although the misfortune which touched him.
| Director: | Dariusz Gackowski |
The team of young documentaries directors from Bydgoszcz — Darek Gackowski, Krzysztof Nowicki and Monika Paprzycka — seems as The Trinity, but is it true? Undeniably, they are great in independent cinema popularizating. Dariusz Gackowski is a photographer; as an independent artist he tries to make documentaries. His latest Marek — shown at many Polish festivals — tells the difficulties of blind person’s daily life. Krzysztof Nowicki is an author, known for frequent visitors of independent festivals because of Reggae Is My Life in 2008 — an unique documentary about reggae subculture in Ostróda.
Beyond the cinema and wide distribution of multiplexes, the independent film art is being propagated with emotion and passion – this is what members of ‘Koloroffon’ say about their art.
