“THE PETER PLAN” BY GRZEGORZ PACEK AT DOCVILLE FESTIVAL
Grzegorz Pacek's "The Peter Plan" has been selected for the programme of the DOCVILLE festival in Belgium. The film is screening in the Spectrum section, which brings together established festival favourites as well as lesser-known titles. This year's edition of the event runs from 18 to 26 March.
DOCVILLE is Belgium's largest documentary film festival, dedicated to non-fiction cinema with a particular emphasis on auteur-driven work from both domestic and international filmmakers. The organisers call attention to the importance of the cinematic experience as a whole, particularly the visual and cinematographic dimensions of the films presented. The Spectrum section, in which Pacek's film is featured, offers a varied programme that encompasses educational and music-focused films alongside politically engaged documentaries and stories about unconventional subjects.
At the heart of The Peter Plan is Peter, for whom the controversial condition known as Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity Syndrome is not a matter for debate but a painful, daily reality. The man experiences acute pain and discomfort in the proximity of electricity, even that emitted by devices as modest as a mobile phone. Compelled to flee his hometown, he severs all ties to his family and withdraws from social life entirely. He retreats ever deeper into the wilderness in search of a safe place to live, until he becomes a hermit and an outsider, a man who can no longer find his place in the modern world.
You can read more about the festival here.