With the fea­ture films by Borys Lankosz (“Reverse”) and by Paweł Sala (“Mother Teresa of Cats”) at this year’s 45^th Inter­na­tional Film Fest­ival in Kar­lovy Vary, two Pol­ish doc­u­ment­ar­ies will be shown: “Beats of Free­dom” by Woj­ciech Słota and Leszek Gnoiński and “The Prom­ised One” by Lesław Dobrucki, who will com­pete for the main prize in the Doc­u­ment­ary Film Competition.

The Inter­na­tional Film Fest­ival in Kar­lovy Vary, the Czech Repub­lic, is one of the most import­ant fest­ivals on the world, as well as the largest film event in the Czech Repub­lic. Every year in Kar­lovy Vary over 200 films from dif­fer­ent corners of the world appear, most of which take part in the com­pet­i­tions in sev­eral cat­egor­ies. Apart from the inter­na­tional com­pet­i­tion, in which the fea­ture films com­pete for the Crys­tal Globe, there is the Doc­u­ment­ary Film Com­pet­i­tion in the festival’s pro­gramme. This year, the doc­u­ment­ary “Little Bride” by Lesław Dobrucki qual­i­fied to the com­pet­i­tion. “Little Bride”, pro­duced by the Andrzej Wajda Mas­ter School of Film Dir­ect­ing, is a story about a young Turk­ish woman whose tragedy began when, aged thir­teen, she was sent to Ger­many and given in marriage.

Apart from this, in the non-​competing cycle “2010: A Musical Odys­sey” the doc­u­ment­ary “Beats of Free­dom” by Woj­ciech Słota and Leszek Gnoiński will be presen­ted. This is a film about the birth of rock music in Poland and its role and strength in times when people lived cut off from the rest of the world because of the Iron Curtain.

Detailed inform­a­tion about the fest­ival can be found here.