Voyage Voyage is a documentary film celebrating the 70th anniversary of PWST National Academy of Theatre Arts in Krakow, Poland. It is a magical place beyond doubt, a powerful hub, as it were, which brings together emotions, hopes, perceptions, exceptional sensitivity and incredible talent all in one place. After all, this is where definitions are coined what theater and art in general mean to artists. “Those who want to become artists are people who have developed a special kind of hypersensitivity; those are people who are larger than their confined selves,” says Agnieszka Glińska, a director and one of the film characters.

Voyage, Voyage is a vivid tale of prominent graduates and personalities of the Academy who reveal what hopes they nurtured upon admission, what made them and what broke them at the Academy and how the place has shaped and altered them.

Magdalena Cielecka will recall her rehearsals wearing a pot on her head, but also her tears and breakthrough moments. Grzegorz Jarzyna will call the PWST Academy a pot from which you come strongly ideologically armored. Krystian Lupa will demonstrate that the Academy is a first steps workshop, Jerzy Stuhr, Dorota Segda and Jerzy Trela will offer their own definitions of acting while Jan Peszek, Anna Radwan and Dawid Ogrodnik will reveal how they work with students.

Those who have just started their journey into the world of theater will also tell their stories of expectations, dreams and gurus. The camera accompanies first years students as they learn the craft for an extended time. The film shows their passion, but also their toil and effort needed in order to master the profession through strenuous practice. Classes in voice projection, working on a role, singing or basics of dancing are physically and emotionally exhaustive endeavors that combine into the “training in being an actor”.

What were the entrance exams like back in the past? Why Mikołaj Grabowski got deeply hurt then? Who had to imitate a fat black nanny singing blues and who was instructed to swear? Come and see Voyage Voyage, a film journey through laugh and tears, moments of disappointment and satisfaction, enthusiasm and slump – all that it takes to be an actor.

Special screening with the film authors and invited guests in attendance, including: Jan Peszek, Jerzy Stuhr, Agnieszka Glińska, Wojciech Malajkat and Dawid Ogrodnik, followed by an after-screening discussion on “Acting: art or craft?”