CINEMAFORUM
The festival comprises of, in a bigger part, workshops for young filmmakers in which they work on a short film. As Arkadiusz Jakubik put it, it "dziala, nie zawsze, ale dziala" ("works, not always, but works"). This year the winning amateur short films were:
KAROLA
Watchable. This is how to move a viewer within a few minutes. Unfortunately, the happy ending's out of the blue.
ASFIKSJA
Watchable. Each workshop participant presents their cliche script, weird colours are used on purpose. Well acted. Shamefully, the film lacks sense.
Among other productions, "Dom" won the Best Animation prize. As I've written before, I found it mediocre.
Presenter Mateusz Damiecki told some actors' jokes: "An actor is someone who, riding a bike through a dark wood at night, keeps the light on himself." and "How do you recognize an actor at a party? He'll tell you himself."
Finally, two of the awarded independent films were shown:
CZARNOKSIEZNIK Z KRAINY U.S. (THE WIZARD OF U.S.)
Watchable. Composed of interviews conducted in Hollywood in 2014, with excellent modern animation, it tells about moving countries: the reasons and the outcomes. The experiences, however, are just like anyone else's: two people attracted to each other never end up together as a result of playing games meant to attract, someone spending Christmas in bars, people making their own living.
NADEJDA LEPSZE CZASY (SOMETHING BETTER TO COME)
Recommended. Such tragic stories I was crying from the beginning to the end. It's worth seeing the lives so miserable you just wouldn't believe possible. Homelessness and living on a rubbish heap in their stark clarity.
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