THE ORCHESTRA
POLISH TITLE: ORKIESTRA
For 30 years now, an exceptional musical institution known as the Sejny Theatre Klezmer Orchestra has been active in the north-eastern borderland of Poland. By playing together, successive generations of young people are able not only to develop their talents, but also to bear witness to the multicultural identity of this area and the local sense of community. The film is a story about the phenomenon, as well as a record of the great creative energy that has for years attracted artists, such as Marcin Masecki and Mikołaj Trzaska, to the White Synagogue in Sejny.
- GENRE:
- documentary
- COUNTRY:
- Polska
- RUNNING TIME:
- 59'
- YEAR:
- 2026
- COLOUR:
- colour
- DIRECTING:
-
Kuba Kossak
- SCRIPT:
-
Kuba Kossak
- DOP:
-
Kuba Kossak
- EDITOR:
-
Kuba Kossak
- PRODUCTION:
- Kuba Kossak, Kossak Films Włodzimierz Kossak
A cinematographer and visual artist. Initially involved in music – he graduated with honours from the Fryderyk Chopin Academy of Music and was a scholarship holder at the Boston University Tanglewood Institute – he eventually turned his artistic sensibility towards the visual arts. His studies at the Milton Avery School of Fine Arts in New York inspired him to work in the visual arts and film. As a cinematographer, he has worked on international productions, including Disney’s “Maleficent”, as well as numerous music videos and advertising projects. After returning to Warsaw in 2015, he began working as a freelance cinematographer, collaborating with many fashion and beauty brands, such as H&M, Reebok, Skoda and L’Oréal. He is also the director of documentary films and concert recordings for leading Polish artists. For his work on Zbigniew Wodecki’s album “1976: A Space Odyssey” with the band Mitch & Mitch, he received a gold, and subsequently a double platinum, disc.
