For the cel­eb­ra­tion of 50^th birth­day Krakow Film Fest­ival has pre­pared spe­cial monthly cycle of the most inter­est­ing films in Fest­ival his­tory. First part of the cycle “Krakow scan­dals” tomor­row at Kino Pod Baranami.

On its 50^th birth­day Krakow Film Fest­ival starts the cycle of monthly screen­ings com­posed of the most inter­est­ing films presen­ted dur­ing the whole his­tory of the Fest­ival. First part of the cycle “Krakow scan­dals” kicks off tomor­row in Kino Pod Baranami.
For next 7 months out of 8 that left to the spe­cial jubilee edi­tion of KFF, in 5 cinemas of Mało­pol­ska Voivod­ship the screen­ings of remark­able for our fest­ival films will take place. The films are selec­ted accord­ing to the sub­ject, authors or coun­try of ori­gin. Not neces­sar­ily it will be fest­ival win­ners, but films which were awaited, applauded or con­tro­ver­sial, sur­pris­ing for the jury and the pub­lic.
We have the big open­ing – first part of the cycle is entitled: ‘Krakow scan­dals”. Krzysztof Gierat, fest­ival dir­ector said: “ There is no fest­ival without scan­dal, and those con­cern­ing artistic val­ues are even more appre­ci­ated. In Octo­ber we are recall­ing the titles, which divided many and dis­cus­sions about films last even until today. The authors: Ewa Borzęcka, Daniel Mul­loy, Marek Piwowski or Mar­cin Kosz­a­łka are suc­cess­ful film­makers and still pro­voke.”
Part “Krakow scan­dals” con­sists of:
 ARI­ZONA, dir. Ewa Borzęcka, Poland 1997, 46’ – Golden Hobby-​Horse in 1998. Doc­u­ment­ary. The bril­liant story about cheap wine called ‘Ari­zona’ and its fans. The ver­dict of the jury chaired by Jerzy Kluba brought quar­rels about doc­u­ment­ary filmmaker’s ethic. The accus­a­tions that the dir­ector made her prot­ag­on­ists drunk for bet­ter screen effect were raised. The lasts films of Borzęcka rather con­firm her extraordin­ary abil­ity to com­mu­nic­ate with the char­ac­ters.
KROK, dir. Marek Piwowski, Poland 1997, 27’ – Bronze Dragon in 1998. Fic­tion. Jury with Mar­cel Łoziński as a chair­man has shown real sense of humor award­ing Marek Piwowski’s pro­voca­tion. The dir­ector with his pic­ture made a com­ment about Poland access­ing NATO. How our army should enter the organ­iz­a­tion? Well, naked…
TATO (Dad), dir. Daniel Mul­loy, UK, 2006, 7’ – Golden Dragon in 2007 Fic­tion. By award­ing this film Andrzej Żuławski exposed him­self for accus­a­tions of pro­mot­ing the por­no­graphy, what is more — geri­at­ric one. Indeed, this mini­ature work of art is full of expli­cit sex scenes with the par­ti­cip­a­tion of the old people, but at the same time it is also nearly bib­lical, pain­ful story about father and son.
TAKIEGO PIĘKNEGO SYNA URODZ­IŁAM, dir. Mar­cin Kosz­a­łka, Poland 1999, 25’ – Honorary Dip­loma in 2000. Doc­u­ment­ary. The biggest scan­dal of Krakow Film Fest­ival ever. Jury of the inter­na­tional com­pet­i­tion chaired by Marta Mesz­aros was brave enough to notice the film shock­ing by its cruel­ity in por­tray­ing fam­ily mem­bers. Koszałka’s debut is the vis­ion of fam­ily hell, that scares and makes laugh at the same time. The dir­ector, called by his mother in this film “dumb” and “bas­tard”, has became the face of Krakow Film Fest­ival, win­ning as a doc­u­ment­ary film­maker and cine­ma­to­grapher many prizes in Poland and aborad.

Jubilee cycle of 50^th KFF – part I: „Krakow scandals” — the sched­ule of screenings:

14.10.2009, 7 p.m. – KINO POD BARANAMI, KRAKÓW

19.10.2009, 6 p.m. – KINO SFINKS, KRAKÓW

27.10.2009, 6 p.m. – KINO MIKRO, KRAKÓW

27.10. 2009, 6.30 p.m. – KINO SOKÓŁ, NOWY SĄCZ

29.10.2009, 8 p.m. – KINO MIL­LENIUM, TARNÓW

(13.10.2009)