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Voyage, Voyage | TVN Fabuła Presents | 70 Years of PWST in Cracow

alicja — Wed, 17 Jan 2018 14:25:41 +0000

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?”

Toni Erdmann | LUX PRIZE

alicja — Wed, 17 Jan 2018 14:22:34 +0000

Winfried doesn’t see much of his working daughter Ines. He decides to surprise her with a visit but it’s an awkward move because serious career woman Ines is working on an important project as a corporate strategist in Bucharest. The geographical change doesn’t help the two to see more eye to eye. Father and daughter reach an impasse. Enter flashy „Toni Erdmann“: Winfried’s smooth-talking alter ego. Disguised in a tacky suit, weird wig and even weirder fake teeth, Toni barges into Ines’ professional life, claiming to be her CEO’s life coach.

Traces

alicja — Wed, 17 Jan 2018 14:20:42 +0000

A documentary tale of Wojciech Jerzy Has, one of the most outstanding and world-renowned Polish directors and a distinguished academic teacher of Lodz Film School. Traces is a portrait of the artist compiled from memories of his students. Prominent figures in the Polish film industry share their stories about their Master, including Jacek Bromski, Jolanta Dylewska, Sławomir Fabicki, Robert Gliński, Mariusz Grzegorzek, Dorota Kędzierzawska, Janusz Kijowski, Sławomir Kryński, Borys Lankosz, Juliusz Machulski, Lech Majewski, Małgorzata Szumowska and Piotr Trzaskalski.

The film screening will be part of the “Cinema Lesson” by Robert Gliński.

Trial: The State of Russia vs. Oleg Sentsov, The

alicja — Wed, 17 Jan 2018 14:18:40 +0000

In August 2015, the court of Rostov-on-Don sentenced Oleg Sentsov, a Ukranian director and EuroMaidan activist, to 20 years of imprisonment. Sentsov vigorously objected to the annexation of Crimea by Russia in March 2014. Soon after that he was arrested by the Russian forces and charged with terrorism offences. The case was built around evidence from coerced statements of two witnesses, which were later withdrawn in court. The Trial: The State of Russia vs. Oleg Sentsov shows the efforts of the director’s family and friends and the international filmmaking community to have Sentsov released as well as the progress of the trial itself, which reveals the Kafkaesque absurdity of the clash between an individual and a ruthless state machine.

Młynarski. The Final Song

alicja — Wed, 17 Jan 2018 14:17:03 +0000

“A song is a small piece that can make you think but, unfortunately, cannot replace thinking,” said Wojciech Młynarski. He portrayed his contemporaries in over 3,500 songs, creating a chronicle of Poland and Poles. His famous songs such as W Polskę idziemy, Niedziela na głównym, Róbmy swoje or Jeszcze w zielone gramy still remain the most accurate and painfully valid depictions of Poland. The most beautiful of his songs are revived in previously unknown archive materials, photos and music videos, some of which have been specially produced for the film. But Młynarski. The Final Song is first and foremost the last very personal and sincere interview with the title character. The film is complete with over 30 accounts of his closest friends and family members, the people with whom and for whom he created his works: outstanding composers, actors and singers. Those incredibly honest and uncensored stories about Wojciech Młynarski build up a portrait of an exceptional artist, but also of a man of conflicting drives, struggling with human weaknesses.