A real feast of Pol­ish doc­u­ment­ary awaits the audi­ence of the 12^th Thes­saloniki Inter­na­tional Doc­u­ment­ary Film Fest­ival. There are as much a 27 Pol­ish films sched­uled to be shown at the festival.

Dur­ing the fest­ival screen­ings, the view­ers will see a sur­vey of Pol­ish doc­u­ment­ary cinema, from the latest films (among oth­ers, Chemo by Paweł Łoziński, and Ams­ter­dam prize-​winner Six Weeks by Mar­cin Janos Kraw­czyk), through the selec­tion of films by one of the most inter­est­ing doc­u­ment­ary film-​maker — Andrzej Fidyk, to the ret­ro­spect­ive of legendary mas­ter­pieces made in 1960s and 1970s by Krzysztof Kieślowski. The pro­fes­sion­als vis­it­ing the Doc­u­ment­ary Film Mar­ket which accom­pan­ies the fest­ival, will see quite a lot of films (four­teen) in the video­lib­rary. The event will last till 21^st March.


Detailed pro­gramme:

POL­ISH DOCS Spot­light

CHEMO dir. Paweł Łoziński
ANDRZEJ WAJDA : LET’S SHOOT! dir. Maciej Cuske, Mar­cin Sauter, Piotr Stasik, Thi­erry Paladino
SIX WEEKS dir. Mar­cin Janos Krawc zyk
WHERE THE SUN DOESN’T RUSH dir. Matej Bobrik
EXIT dir. MaŁgorzata BieŃkowska-​Buehlmann

Trib­ute: Krzysztof Kieślowski

The Legend
From the City of Łódz
Fact­ory
Before the Rally
Work­ers ’71
First Love
From the Point of View of a Night Porter
Talk­ing Heads 
Between Wro­claw and Zielona Gora
Brick­layer
Hos­pital
I Was a Sol­dier
Refrain
Seven Days a Week
Seven Women of Dif­fer­ent Ages
Slate
X-​Ray
Sta­tion

Spot­light: Andrzej Fidyk

Yodok Stor­ies
Battu’s Bio­scope
Belarus­ian Waltz 
The Pres­id­ent 


More inform­a­tion on the festival’s web­site.
(10.03.2010)