SECTION: Polskie Horyzonty

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What is province? From the very beginning, the "Heimatfilm" has found its place in international cinema as something between a romance of the ideal world and a pointed social parable. In Poland, many films are currently dealing with the challenges and opportunities of "country life," discussing the contradiction between "idyllic country life" and "Provincial Frustration" - between self-liberation and pressure to conform, landscape description and socio-critical metaphor. Despite all the gains in mobility, the apparent contrast between urban and rural lifestyles is becoming entrenched. But isn't the province, aren't smaller towns and villages meanwhile more urban than their reputation? Or are they not? The series of current films from Poland, some of them German-Polish co-productions, shows that contradictions do not only lead to creative energy in big cities, that diversity is also a characteristic of the provinces and thus questions common urban-rural images.

 

All Our Fears

All Our Fears

Wszystkie nasze strachy

Łukasz Ronduda, Łukasz Gutt
PL / 2021 / 94 min
An intimate togetherness come undone: Daniel is successful, but also torn between his small village community and urban art galleries, the Catholic Church and his gay identity. When a friend from the LGBT community kills herself after suffering ...
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BUCOLIC

BUCOLIC

Bukolika

Karol Pałka
PL / 2021 / 70 min
Neglected and yet at peace: 65-year-old Danusia and her 35-year-old daughter Basia live far away from the nearest village, way out in the countryside - a small house, the water comes from the pond next door, a few cows, goats, and a bicycle. A life ...
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Silent Love

Silent Love

Silent Love

Marek Kozakiewicz
PL/DE / 2021 / 80 min
Who is allowed to start a family in rural Poland? This documentary film depicts Agnieszka's struggle for custody of her brother Milosz after their mother's death. In order to do so, Agnieszka has to reveal many details from her private life; she ...
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SONATA

SONATA

SONATA

Bartosz Blaschke
PL / 2021 / 118 min
Autistic or child prodigy? Grzegorz is excluded from both school and society, that is until his new supervisor discovers that, rather than autism, he has a hearing impairment. A new hearing aid works wonders, and the 14-year-old develops into an ...
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SONGS ABOUT LOVE

SONGS ABOUT LOVE

Piosenki o miłości

Tomasz Habowski
PL / 2021 / 90 min
From a provincial town to the big wide world – and then? Alicja makes ends meet in Warsaw as a waitress. Robert on the other hand, the son of a famous actor, just can’t seem to pull himself together. Sparks fly between the two and yet Robert, all ...
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Tonia

Tonia

Tonia

Marcin Bortkiewicz
PL / 2021 / 81 min
Tonia's father absolutely loves his daughter, and also loves the beer - and if grandmother has her way, he is to leave his Polish hometown for three months and head to a construction site in Italy. The father is already going Mediterranean with his ...
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Time Before Land

Time Before Land

PRZEDCZAS VOR ZEIT

Juliane Henrich
DE / 2021 / 79 min
With the help of an alter ego director Juliane Henrich embarks on a search for her ancestral roots in Silesia, a region that has belonged to Poland since 1945. And in place of unambiguous evidence about her grandfather, she instead learns a lot about ...
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