POMIEDZY SLOWAMI (BEYOND WORDS)
Recommended. Mesmerizing. Audiovisually outstanding. The black and white cinematography captivates, varied music and sound effects match the pictures and the story perfectly. The title can be read on many levels: made up translations of the conversations between the protagonist's father and his boss, the father's nationalist remarks, "Germans" born in Poland, a poor African poet who turns out to matter, the immigrants' circle Michal once can't get out of or at other times doesn't fit in and the German society which in turns either accepts him without batting an eyelid or points out his sticking out like a sore thumb, his loosening the tie or passing the Siegessäule listening to Turkish music. About acculturation, national identity and the right to choose how and where to live. Lifestyle emigration.
The Atlantic cinema in Warsaw is disastrous when you enter the screening hall after dark: only every other step is lit so it's all too easy to stumble and get hurt.
ON THE MILKY ROAD
Recommended. Apparently it's based on 3 real stories and countless fantasies. Geese bathing in blood, a viper fed on milk, a man with a peregrine falcon and a donkey, a hen jumping in front of a mirror, various styles of local folk music, debauchery and runaway lovers in the middle of the Balkan war form a colourful mosaic. A unique, bizarre world by Emir Kusturica who I had never appreciated before.
WATCH DOCS FILM FESTIVAL
OPENING OF DIGITAL STORIES LAB
Walked out. Announced as interactive films but were neither interactive nor films, just some amateurish presentations of stuff you normally find online. A waste of time.
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