Programme
All of the festival accompanying events will take place in CKE Stara Rzeźnia at Tadeusza Wendy 14 street in the heart of Szczecin on a Łasztownia island.
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12.09 2019/ Thursday
12.00-14.00 – “The art of a film image” workshops by Bartosz Jurgiewicz (the number of places is limited, registration before workshops is needed)
16.30 opening of photo exhibition “Cats” by members of University of Third Age from Szczecin.
and opening of film posters exhibition created by filmmakers from Zachodniopomorskie voivodeship
17.00-17.30 “From Lumière brothers to huge american blockbusters” – lecture by Jakub Romanowski
18.00 opening ceremony
19.00 special screening “Unconditional Love” by Rafał Łysak, metting with the director after screening
13.09 2019/ Friday
11.00-13.30 accompanying event “What for the senior?”, film screening and discussion
Screening of main competition films:
14.00-16.00 /BLOCK 1
16.00-16.30/ break
16.30-18.00 / BLOCK 2
meeting with directors after each block, discussion with the audience
18.00-19.30 accompanying event – spectacle “Poetic Coffeshop” by Senior Theatre Piąte Koł
19.30 special screening “George and George on the Lake”by Piotr Małecki
14.09.2019/Saturday
Screening of main competition films:
12.00-13.30 BLOCK 3
13.30-15.00 BLOCK 4
15.00-16.00 break
16.00-17.30 BLOCK 5
meeting with directors after each block, discussion with the audience
18.00- 18.40 accompanying event – Illusion show
19.30 special screening “A Cat with a Dog” by Janusz Kondratiuk
15.09.2019r./Sunday
12.00- 14.30 drama workshops by Agnieszka Michalska, Asia Brzezińska (the number of places is limited, registration before workshops is needed)
16.00-16.30 special screening, “Sieda” by Vanessa Pellegrin
18.00 award ceremony and screening of the winning film
Entry on all events and screenings is free!
Workshops, lectures and sccompanying events are only in Polish language.
SPECIAL SCREENINGS
Unconditional love
40 min.Poland 2018, doc.
dir. Rafał Łysak
Is understanding between an extremely religious 80-year-old and her gay grandson possible? Are they able to overcome their beliefs in the name of love? This is a very personal story of the director Rafał. His grandmother Teresa brought him up and for the whole life he treated her as his second mother. She has invested all her love and hope in him until he tells her about his homosexuality. The news broke her heart. Getting to know his partner, friends and colleagues, Teresa is starting to understand and accept Rafał. He also tries to understand his grandmother. They are trying to get past the gap between generations. Will they be able to discover themselves again?
George and George on the Lake
27 min. Poland 2018, doc.
dir.Piotr Małecki
George and George are both 83. Every summer they sail together on the Mazury lakes in Northeast Poland, happy with the simplicity of life, beauty of nature and their friendship. This might be the last such summer together. One of them is becoming weak. His hands tremble, his balance is off. The other George gently takes care of his friend. The short documentary, shot entirely in a verité style, shares an intimate image of friendship and joy of life with a twist of humor.
A cat with a dog
1 godz. 42 min. Poland 2018, /feature
dir. Janusz Kondratiuk
cast: Robert Więckiewicz, Olgierd Łukaszewicz, Bożena Stachura, Aleksandra Konieczna
A bittersweet portrait of family relations inspired by true events. Filled with ironic humor, the story follows the life of an unconventional family in which conflicts and rivalry are intertwined with moments of affection and authentic intimacy. When Andrzej suddenly falls ill, his younger brother puts aside their differences and the wall of disagreements that grew between them over the years, and decides to help his sibling in his hour of need.
SIEDA
27:11 UK 2019, feature
dir.Vanessa Pellegrin
Sieda, a widow in her late seventies of Belarusian descent, is diagnosed with a heart disease and forced to move in with her daughter Hannah and grandson Benjamin. Sieda, who is proud of her sharp mind and wicked sense of humour, believes herself to be perfectly capable of handling her own affairs and stubbornly refuses all help. On any occasion, she escapes from her new home and takes refuge at the village cemetery where her late husband is buried. There, she basks in her newly found freedom, doing whatever she likes, such as sipping vodka, rearranging other people’s graves, squabbling with the caretaker and feeding her medication to the pigeons.One day she meets Patrick, a charming and mischievous widower, whose wife is buried in the same cemetery. After initially resisting his attempts to get close, they fall in love and begin to enjoy every day as if it was their last.