FILMY // MOVIES
UNBRANDED
SYNOPSIS: Four young men decide to set out on a journey of their life. They are moving from Mexico to Canada along with the tamed by them wild mustangs. Through these 3,000 miles, they have the opportunity to not only get used to the animals, but also to befriend them. The distrust between the horses […]
SYRIAN LOVE STORY
SYNOPSIS: The film chronicles five years from life of a Syrian family whose love is put to the test. Living in a country under Bashar al-Asad’s dictatorship, they try to cope with the extreme situation in the country ruled by the regime. Both Raghda and Amer had been arrested in Syria, which meant being separated […]
STATE OF MIND
SYNOPSIS: The main protagonist of the movie is Senadin Ljubovic, a neuropsychiatrist, a Bosnian Muslim who hired Dr. Karadzic in a psychiatry clinic in Sarajevo before the war. Last time they had seen each other was right before the war started. Sixteen years later Ljubovic decides to go to the Detention Unit in Hague in […]
REQUIEM FOR SYRIAN REFUGEES
SYNOPSIS: Richard Wolf’s documentary tackles a serious topic of lives of the Syrian citizens who leave their country to flee the war. Their cities and towns turn into ruins and everyday life becomes impossible. Having left Syria, they live in a commune, where, in dire conditions, they try to live their previous lives. The film […]
CROSSING HELL: ANYTHING TO GET TO EUROPE
SYNOPSIS: The film tells a story of an exhausting trek of two groups of illegal emigrants towards Europe – their dreamed El Dorado. The first group is composed of Afghans who have left Kabul, while the second group came from the Republic of Cameroon, one of the Central African States. They all travel like slaves, […]
THE CROSSING
SYNOPSIS: The Crossing by Georg Kurian chronicles the journey of a group of friends from Syria, who decide to leave their country in order to flee war and persecution. To do so, they have to abandon their families and friends. During the tough time, the mutual support helps them survive the hardships of the journey. […]
CARTEL LAND
SYNOPSIS: In the Mexican state of Michoacan, Dr. Jose Mireles, a doctor from a small town, incites people to revolt against the brutal drug mafia called the Knights Templar. They wreak havoc and fear in the region by committing brutal murders. Meanwhile, in Arizona, Tim ‘Nailer’ Foley – an American veteran – leads a paramilitary […]
THE GREAT WALL
SYNOPSIS: This daring documentary film brings to our minds the gloomy masterpieces of Franz Kafka. The director – hacking his way through Europe which is enclosed by various walls – stops in different European refugee camps. The systems of walls and fences create a mysterious labyrinth, meanwhile, the landscapes, often imprisoned between the walls, reflect […]
ON THE BRIDE’S SIDE
SYNOPSIS: The conflict in Syria forces many of its citizens to leave the country. Whilst trying to obtain asylum in Europe, they long for the abandoned life. And yet, they know that there is no way back. Having met five Palestinian and Syrian refugees in Milan, a poet and a journalist decide to help them […]
UNFORGIVEN
SYNOPSIS: Unforgiven: Rwanda explores the interactions between the perpetrators and the people who became their victims – directly or not. Twenty years after the genocide in Rwanda, the state reconciliation programme calls the victims and their perpetrators to make an effort and try to forgive – and learn to live side by side. The film […]
MONK OF THE SEA
SYNOPSIS: Rafał Sakalski’s documentary tells a story of coming of age in the Thai culture. A young Bangkok citizen, who lives a promiscuous life, decides to become a temporary Buddhist monk. This is where his hedonistic habits meet the ascetic traditions. In Thailand 70% of men decide to temporarily join a monastery. According to the […]
SMALL PEOPLE, BIG TREES
SYNOPSIS: In the shadow of the Central African Republic rain forests there lives a tribe of the shortest people on Earth – the Pygmies from the Baka ethnic group. Together they hunt, gather fruit picked from big trees, celebrate dances and pray to honour the spirits of the forest. However, with time, as the influence of […]
GHOST PEOPLE
SYNOPSIS: Tanzania is a place with the highest number of people suffering from albinism. They significantly differ from the rest of the society because of the lack of pigmentation. They are extremely vulnerable to sunburns and skin cancer. However, the strong African sun is not the only threat they face. Other people are the worst […]
THE OTHER KIDS
SYNOPSIS: This documentary film directed by Pablo De La Chic is an inspiring story presenting the power of football, which can change many people’s lives. Hundreds of millions of children practice this sport every day. For many of them a football scholarship is the only way to access education or to get a chance for […]
GOLD FEVER
SYNOPSIS: The film entitled Gold Fever addresses the issue of the gold industry in Guatemala, a Latin America country. The activities connected with gold mines have a very negative impact on the poorest people in the area, who have no access to this business. Local residents have to fight for their land; they have to […]
ANORANZA
SYNOPSIS: Anoranza is Flo Flamme’s first feature film. The young director presents in it a story about nostalgia and longing. The main character is an old Cuban, who lives in a world of old ideas. An old love, places which he has never seen – he talks about his memories and the desire for freedom. […]
24 SNOW
SYNOPSIS: Sergiej lives in separation. His everyday life consists of challenges, which force him to fight nature and his own loneliness. In the extremely cold conditions he looks for independence and freedom. He spends most of the time breeding horses far away from his village. Animals replace his family and friends because he meets these […]
2 GIRLS
SYNOPSIS: Lot and Tigist are two completely different women, the first one lives in Bangladesh and the other one in Ethiopia. What they have in common is a desperate desire to break away from the extreme poverty. The only possible solution for them is to escape. They move to big cities such as Dhaka and […]
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GOŚCIE // GUESTS
Mikhail Barynin
Mikhail was born in 1985. He grew up in Moscow, in a large family. When he was a ninth-grader, he entered the Moscow International School, where he felt an irresistible interest in art and in documentaries. When he was 15 he already started to shoot small documentary sequences. After the high school, Mikhail entered the […]
Marco Speroni
– Marco Speroni started directed many Art and Cultural Documentaries. Since 1995 he has been working as a Producer, Writer and Director for shorts and feature films. Since 2000 he collaborated with important Italian Networks such as Rai and Sky. In 2011 he produced and directed “In Hell’s Heart” a Docfiction shot in war zone […]
Martyna Wojciechowska
– Journalist, for the past 8 years chief editor of the Polish edition of “National Geographic” and “NG Traveler” magazines. Since 1998 associated with the Polish television station TVN, for which she produced, among other, 54 episodes of her own travel series, “Woman at the End of the World”, which is televised in 9 countries […]
Marek Kłosowicz
– A Łódz film school graduate, Marek Kłosowicz has since worked regularly with TVN. He participated in many expeditions to Asia and Africa. He organized and participated in the 1st Trekking Expedition of the Koszalin Polytechnic (‘Nepal ’97), the 2nd Koszalin Polytechnic Expedition ‘Kilimandzaro ’98’ , a Lodz trekking expedition ‘Elbrus ‘99’ and the multimedia […]
Flo Flamme
– (born october 10, 1986) is an Belgian film director. Being the daughter of a painter, Flo developed a love for the creative arts at an early age and spended most of her youth in a Belgian theater company. At 18 she retreated from the spotlight, enrolling in the audiovisual arts program at the LUCA, […]
Pablo de la Chica
– He found Salon Indien Films in 2014, with the intention of producing independent works. He studied and worked in Madrid, Toronto and New York, where he learnt about cinema, documentary film and documentary theatre. THE OTHER KIDS is his first film. As a director and producer, it’s worth mentioning his contribution to Cesar (Savage Detectives […]
Sean McAllister
– Director Sean McAllister is known for his candid, frank films, depicting with extraordinary intimacy the lives of ordinary people who are struggling to survive but are survivors, caught up in political and personal conflict, struggling to make sense of the world we live in. From his early films Working For The Enemy (1997) and […]
Lukas Augustin (director) oraz Salome Augustin (producent)
– Lukas Augustin is a film maker and director of photography based in Germany. From 2006-2008, he lived with a local family in Afghanistan, learning Dari and working as a volunteer for the humanitarian aid organization Operation Mercy. After freelancing as a photojournalist and in the film world for several years producing documentaries and short […]
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