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  • 5 stories by Wim Wenders, 3'

    The behind the stage reality of work of an outstanding director during his unique film project for one of the famous fashion brands. Hubert Woroniecki presents Wim Wenders - not only in the middle of creating the presentation of a new collection but also while creating his extraordinary film's narrative. 

     

     

     

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  • 7 more minutes, 7'30"

    After a train accident, four passengers wake up on the beach. It is sunny and warm, the sky is blue, seagulls squark. Maybe it is a good idea to take a swim in the sea? Or maybe they just float from here to the afterworld? 

     

     

     

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  • Across the Andes, 25'

    Seven years after their father's suicide, siblings Anna and Henrik Dahlbring meet to discuss their father and his impact on their lives.
     

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  • Afternoon, 3'

    ”Afternoon” is a commentary written for two voices, which concerns one short moment shared by a man and a woman. Although they are both completely absorbed by their duties and do not pay attention to one another, suddenly, due to an unexpected event, they see each other once again. 

     

     

     

     

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  • Barwy ochronne, 96'

    Linguistic clubs summer camp. Kruszyński (Piotr Garlicki), a young graduate, admits a belated dissertation of some Raczyk (Eugeniusz Priwieziencew) from Toruń to a student competition. He is aware that he exposes himself to a provost, known for his animosity towards the academia of Toruń. Kruszyński’s situation gets even worse when Raczyk’s thesis is enthusiastically received by the youth. In the meantime, the jury awards a different work – intellectually mediocre and uninspired. 

     

     

     

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  • Butterflies in Berlin - Diary of a Soul split in two, 24'52"

    Alex moves to Berlin in 1933, during the Weimar Republic period. Looking for his place in the world and his sexual identity, he becomes the first out-of-surgery transsexual in History. That happens unfortunately during the National-Socialism rise, a social disruption that turned the capital of sexual freedom into the most repressed country of all times.

     

     

     

     

     

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  • Capitaine France , 21'54"

    A documentary about the life of Capitaine France, the greatest French superhero the world has ever known, from 1900 to present day. His adventures lead him to Omaha Beach, all around France and bring him to face a giant robot that threatens to destroy his country.

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

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  • Catharsis, 5'

    Getting plastered with the art world’s most unconventional plastic surgeon. 

     

     

     

     

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  • Darling , 6'

    What is memory loss? In a labyrinth of fear, a loved one becomes a stranger, a house becomes a trap. Going in the dark, tracing the known objects and shapes a heroine tries to come back to life, that used to be her own. 

     

     

     

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  • Dobrze się kłamie w miłym towarzystwie, 97'

    The film received David di Donatello Awards – so called Italian Oscar Awards– for the best movie and screenplay of 2016. The screenplay itself won the laurels at Tribeca FF and MFF in Bari.

    Seven old friends meet at dinner. To make the evening more interesting, they start playing a game, sharing every text message, e-mail and phone call they receive during the meeting. When secrets are brought to light, an innocent play creates conflicts, that will not be easy to overcome… 

     

     

     

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  • Where the Wind Takes Us, 20'

    Mariam fled her country, she is pregnant, and she is looking for a safe home for his baby. This travel led them to cross the sea in a small boat that carried only women until they arrived at the border city of Melilla. Due to the hazards along the way, women prefer to keep their stories secret. Nevertheless, Mariam has decided to tell her story to her child Treasure before giving birth on Christmas. 

     

     

     

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  • Eter, 117'
    Cast: Jacek Jacek Poniedziałek, Andrzej Chyra, Zsolt László, Ostap Vakuliuk.
    The beginning of the 20th century, the regions of the Russian Empire. A doctor gives a lethal dose of ether to a young woman whom he wants to seduce. After the escape, he joins the Austro-Hungarian fortress where he proceeds with his experiments. 
     
     
     
     
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  • Evan, a survivor's story, 18'50"

    “Evan, A Survivor's Story” is a documentary about a Kurdish journalist whose work filming and reporting on ISIS leads to threats to his life. He flees to the safety of Europe. The film reflects his struggle to learn English and not to lose hope despite the absurdities of the immigration system. This is a story of courage, love and survival, a story of Kurds everywhere and immigrants around the world.

     

     

     

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  • Husband and Wife, 36'46"

    The wife of a Polish immigrant finds out that her husband died suddenly whilst working abroad, and his body was captured by the local authorities and the police for investigation. With no economic means or practical support from anyone, she embarks on a journey to London to find his body and take it home. Her battle with bureaucracy to secure a decent burial for her late husband paves the way through the streets and institutions of London and informs the intimate picture of her personal reflections on life, love and death.

     

     

     

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  • Ikar. Legenda Mietka Kosza, 122'

    Inspired by real events, a story about a blind piano genius, who loses his sight as a child. In a centre for visually impaired, the boy finds out that music can be his way of seeing the world once again and may enable him to tell the story about the world. Mietek becomes a great classical pianist, but once he discovers jazz his only aim is to become the best jazz pianist in Poland. He succeeds not only nationally but also on a global scale. He wins a prestigious festival. Suddenly Zuza, a charismatic vocalist, enters his life. The meeting is going to change it forever.

     

     

     

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  • Iktamuli, 5'28"

    The film depicts thoughts and feelings of a mother with her so-called mentally disabled son. While she moves with him through everyday life, her ambivalent feelings, her struggles to accept him as he is, get into her way. The story is told as an associative montage of scenes, following feelings and experiences of the mother, as we listen to her inner monologue. 

     

     

     

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  • Jestem z Doumga , 40'

    A story about a man called Amadou Sy, who walks through his life with his head held high, proudly and responsibly. He has a lot of heart, in which two homelands – Poland and Senegal – take up a lot of space. He loves them both with equal strength, admires and appreciates them the same. In Stargard he was a regarded and respected councilor, who co-decided about the issues of many people, while in Doumga, where he comes from, he co-decides about a large family. The movie presents a European and an African in one person, who perfectly harmonises love and attachment to both of his homelands, not favouring any of them. 

     

     

     

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  • Just Agree Then, 8'52"

    Contrasting artistic visions, misplaced confidence and blatant ignorance collide on the backdrop of an increasingly fragile and divided world. In August 2018, seven months before the UK is due to leave the EU, two stubborn Scottish filmmakers struggle to make a short film together in the Austrian Alps. Can they find common ground, or will they have to go their separate ways?

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

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  • Horse Riders, 19'27"
    A certain village near Opole is celebrating Easter Sunday. 
    People gather in front of the church, but there are also horses crowding here.
    It is a traditional element of Easter celebrations, among which you can also find prayers, a horse ride around the nearby buildings and passionate, alcohol-fuelled singing. Enigmatic editing and black-and-white pictures bring out the atmosphere of the holiday. The sacred merges with the profane.

     

     

     

     

     

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  • The Closure, 30'

    This story is framed about family links. Using the images recorded on a cruise ship made by his parents, the author invokes a dystopian society where the problems of collective coexistence are solved by an algorithm and where the prohibition of abortion is compensated by a law that allows parents to prosecute their children if, at the age of 30, they have not fulfilled the expectations placed on them. 

     

     

     

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  • Lasting Marks, 14'29"

    The story of sixteen men put on trial for sadomasochism in the dying days of Thatcher's Britain was told by the police, the prosecution and the tabloid press — but not by those in the dock. 

     

     

     

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  • Let’s go to Antarctica!, 5'

    Carlos is a human being; Right now he is in Antarctica on vacation. Penguins, who don't have cameras, will find it very difficult to remember Carlos. 

     

     

     

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  • My Juke-Box, 15'

    Last day, I overheard a music. An old rock’n’roll song. It sounds familiar… This is probably a music that realized into one of the mechanical devices of my dad, the wanderer, the man of a thousand lives, the king of the juke-box.

     

     

     

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  • Natalie.D, 5'25"

    The love story of two women who meet, who fantasize, then get lost. 

     

     

     

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  • No Obvious Signs , 64'

    This is the story of the woman soldier, Oksana Yakubova, who returns from war. Talking to psychologists, battling her PTSD and panic attacks, she tries hard to get back to normal life. The documentary shows her path from the beginning of her rehabilitation process till her way to the normal family life and work. 

     

     

     

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  • NOBU, 8'

    “NOBU” is a short film about former world champion karate and Japanese immigrant Nobuaki Konno. In this film his daughter and fashion designer Lisa Konno asks him about cultural differences. Prior to making this movie, Lisa made fashion collection inspired by him and his humorous view on integration. During the film he wears the collection which makes this production a short documentary and fashion film in one. 

     

     

     

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  • Mr. Jones, 119'

    International cast including James Norton, Vanessa Kirby and a nominee to the Golden Globe Award – Peter Sarsgaard. The film shows a story of Gareth Jones – a Welsh journalist, who in 1933 goes to the Soviet Union to discover the horrifying truth behind Stalin’s regime and the Soviet utopia. His investigation had lethal repercussions and, in the meantime, became an inspiration to create one of the most famous books of the 20th century – “Animal Farm” by George Orwell. 

     

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  • A Country in Moving Pictures, 10'

    An aging Caucasian has a phone conversation with his young Filipina lover who tried her best to win him and persuade to visit her country. During conversation, he has seen her beauty and contrasting social ills surrounding her until the phone got snatched making him witness an unforgettable seen. This is a short film shot entirely with a mobile phone. 

     

     

     

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  • Paused By: ‘Anything’, ‘Photoshoot’, ‘Paternoster’, ‘Restaurant’, ‘The Lake’, 4'02"

    Wim Wenders collaborated with luxury fashion brand Jil Sander through agency Beuro Paris to create a set of surprising and provocative “Paused By” films for their new Spring/Summer 2018 collection.  

    The films could be read as being the beginning, middle or end of a movie, all intentionally and abruptly “Paused” at a decisive moment. 
     
    Shot on location in and around Berlin and accompanied by an exclusive soundtrack composed by Laurent Petitgand, the set of films, written and directed by Wim Wenders connect the past, present and future of the Jil Sander brand. 
     

     

     

     

     

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  • Portret Susanne , 15'

    A small hotel, a man, who tries to avoid the hunger of love by overeating. Still, the longing for his beloved Suzanna can not be satisfied with plates of cold meat, vegetables, and fruit. When the protagonist goes to town in search of food, he accidentally hurts his left foot, which surprisingly transforms into Suzanne. Since then they have become inseparable... that is only the beginning of a surreal story about loneliness, envy and love. 

     

     

     

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  • Entry Forbidden to Unauthorized Strangers, 22'24"

    Unable to travel around the world, I decided to travel around the statue of the Ferdinand Magelan, the first man who (kind of...) circumnavigated the world, 500 years ago. Antonio Pigafetta, who accompanied Magellan, wrote in “Relazione del primo viaggio intorno al mondo” and it's through his words I find the migrants who inhabit my neighbourhood in Lisbon.

     

     

     

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  • Ptaki śpiewają w Kigali, 113'

    A shocking story about friendship and forgiveness. The last film of Joanna Kos-Krauze and Krzysztof Krauze – the creator of the award-winning “Papusza” and “Saviour's Square”. The movie received the FIRST LOOK award at MFF Locarno 2016 for the Polish film in the post-production phase category and took part in the Main Competition of the 52nd  Karlovy Vary International Film Festival 2017, where Jowita Budnik and Eliane Umuhore received awards for the best female roles. 

     

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  • When the Light Goes Out, 5'

    The documentary “When the Light Goes Out” aims to, through an experimental video essay and using images from the photos of the Fotocine Fund existing in the collection of the Municipal Museum of Coruche, to make known some aspects of the familiar reality of the mid-twentieth century in this Ribatejo region and its relation to photography. 

     

     

     

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  • Savage, 97'

    Savage (fr.) means wild, undomesticated. That is who Léo is. The most important value for him is his freedom. To go and sleep wherever he wants. Actually, it is all he has. On the other hand, he craves vicinity. Distrustfully, but hungrily, he accepts all kindness. ”Sauvage” is a very interesting voice in the current dispute on the balance and conflict between the needs of freedom and safety. At the same time, it walks away from a political perspective, concentrates on psychology and individual decisions of protagonists. 

     

     

     

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  • So It Goes, 1'

    In 1940 Truus lives in Rotterdam with her mother Aartje. In 2019, her grandson Arjan wonders what the first sunny days of May 1940 look like for them. He makes a reconstruction and concludes that there’s little he can add to it. 

     

     

     

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  • Spirala, 83'

    A tourist, whose behavior from the beginning seems at least strange, shows up in the Tatra hostel ”Morskie Oko”. He starts a contention with Teresa in an arrogant way. He implies to Maria, that she is too old to have a child and then gets into a dispute with a group of students. Finally, he borrows a sleeping bag from one of them and goes to sleep. In the morning it turns out that the stranger is missing. The hostel’s residents start the search. Rescuers and soldiers join them. 

     

     

     

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  • Struktura kryształu, 74'

    Jan and Marek are college friends. But since the graduation they went their separate ways. Jan chose the work of a meteorologist and took up residence in the countryside with his wife. Meanwhile, Marek stayed in Warsaw where he has a successful career as a scientist. One day he visits Jan and tries to convince him to go back to academic work in Warsaw. The meeting of two friends becomes a clash of two different characters, beliefs and views on the meaning of life. 

     

     

     

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  • Surface Dissected, 16'02"

    A movie about self-determination and responsibilities, about prejudices, the Arabic parallel society in Germany, about trust and fears – and a strong love. Maria's and Salim's relationship is determined by a delicate balance. They live in Berlin; Maria works as a belly dancer; Salim's origins are in Syria and thus in a society which perceives belly dancing as dishonourable. While he waits for her, at night, in his car, Maria dances in the clubs for other men.

     

     

     

     

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  • Dam, 22'

    A father and a son on a trip. They meet to spend some time together after a period when they broke off all contact. But it is not a carefree weekend at a hut in the Bieszczady mountains. The drunk father asks a rhetorical question: “And what did you think – that it would be easy?” Building the eponymous dam on a mountain stream may be understood as fighting your own weakness, making joint efforts to overcome bias and mutual grievances. In the pool thus created, they may find expurgation and (temporary) solace. 

     

     

     

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  • The Man Who Looked Beyond The Horizon, 28'23"

    A playfully edited documentary investigating the disappearance of a man who proves to have left behind something more special than just a mystery. 

     

     

     

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  • The Steppes of Khazar, 6'49"

    The fate of the Khazar people, as it is told by their conquerors – loosely based on “Dictionary of the Khazars” by Milorad Pavic. 

     

     

     

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  • Time Passing, 3'02"

    “Time Passing” is a three-minute short film directed by Wim Wenders featuring the Fall/ Winter 2018 collection designed by Lucie and Luke Meier. In the film, which follows the first award-winning collaboration of the German film director with Jil Sander, the cast is caught in a time loop of repeating scenarios marked by changes of outfits and different emotional responses from the protagonists. The surreal quality of the location allows the images to rise above the narrative structure and encourages the viewer to plunge into the stream of events along with the characters. 

     

     

     

     

     

     

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  • Time passing by Wim Wenders, 4'58"

    Hubert Woroniecki’s documentary is a perfect implementation of "Time Passing" - the promotional project of Jil Sander's brand. The personal statement of Wim Wenders – the author of this film-fashion story – gets the audience closer to creators and the atmosphere accompanying them at work.

     

     

     

     

     

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  • Tracing Addai, 24'54"

    In his early twenties Addai leaves his entire life behind and moves to Syria to help victims of the civil war. At first he is assigned kitchen duty together with Ilias. Addai writes to his mother: “Don’t worry about me, I’m fine.” Two years later Addai’s mother receives a letter from prison. Ilias has been sentenced for terrorism by a German court. He wants to meet her and writes: “One thing you have to believe me, we went there with good intentions.” 

     

     

     

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  • Track, 1'

    A fictional documentary narrated by Rosa Limanci, a young Latina woman who reflects on the reasons for her migration and the condition of depopulation of her current place of residence in the south of Europe. It features a reflection on her childhood and her present, using the crossroads as examples of the depopulation of territories which are considered far away.

    The question is: are rural realities in Spain and in Latin America comparable? Specifically, in relation to population and abandonment of territories, poor and rich alike. 

     

     

     

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  • Under The Dress, 23'

    A hilarious journey of Aleksandr towards self-discovery and acceptance through the retro drag queen escape. He embarks upon a dazzling drag queen transformation in which he plays his own role: a character in search of his identity. Suspended in a performance between the real and the fantasy, Aleksandr confronts his ideas on sexuality, gender and his own past. “Under the Dress” is an exercise of mise en scène close to Werner Schroeter's, an ultra-contemporary form of demanding the legitimate right to any form of sexual identity. 

     

     

     

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  • Untitled (a refusal of leave to land), 28'20"

    An essayistic short film on a prisoner of war camp from WWII, the arms industry in the Ruhr area and the relation between individual and collective memory. Based on a childhood memory of the artist finding a fossilized Ammonite that was once part of a railroad track. 

     

     

     

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  • When the Dragon Came, 21'

    A story from the countryside. She was almost 12 when she met him and two years later became pregnant with their first child. She did not want to get married, but her family decided otherwise. He married her because they were equally poor and unhappy. They had 8 healthy children who left home a long time ago. Conjoined with each other and their small village, they are not waiting for a change. Their daily life revolves around work: grazing cows and farming the land. Next to each other all the time but separate. 

     

     

     

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  • When the Light Goes Out, 5'

    The documentary “When the Light Goes Out” aims to, through an experimental video essay and using images from the photos of the Fotocine Fund existing in the collection of the Municipal Museum of Coruche, to make known some aspects of the familiar reality of the mid-twentieth century in this Ribatejo region and its relation to photography.
     

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  • Wieczór, 3'
    ”Evening” is the third part of Izabela Plucińska's trilogy (after ”Breakfast” and ”Afternoon”). The film shows the most intense emotions of the married couple. Throughout the window go: a TV, chairs, a table, teacups, flowers, photos, the walls getting knocked down in the end. An argument reaches its peak in a 3-minute nutshell.
     

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