Populær Fra Cape Verde

A short film screened at Il Cinema Ritrovato

Three employees of a poultry farm, Kazik, Antek, and Paweł, are instructed by their manager to drive a truck to Warsaw and illegally deliver a batch of turkeys to important people. While carrying out the assignment, they encounter many difficulties and meet various people. Finally, weary of their troubles and discouraged, they decide to have a night picnic by the Vistula River.

Short and simple story from the time of pandemic - a poetic view of isolation, loneliness and boredom.

A film that portrays the Kafkaesque struggle of the protagonist, a female to male transsexual, as he tries to obtain identity documents that would allow him to normally function in Polish society.

People who suffer from depression are usually invisible. Society believes that this disease affects the mentally weak, spoiled by life, self-centered and unable to "pull themselves together". When someone around us suffers, we think it will pass because they are simply in a bad mood. Depression does not go away by itself, and the bad mood continues and lasts, often for months or years. How much is human endurance? The film presents 4 stories of the struggle with this extremely serious disease, in which they are repeatedly inscribed: exclusions, helplessness of doctors or suicide attempts.

Teresa Tyszkiewicz's last film is at the same time her only work realized in this medium in France, where the artist emigrated in 1982. The film features a sequence with the pin process and large-format works realized in this technique, as if the artist was making a peculiar declaration: after making ARTA, Tyszkiewicz devotes herself almost entirely to the performative and painstaking pin process.

An elderly Polish-American man, in the final stage of his life, experiences a reversion to the past. As his memories evaporate, he contends with being haunted by what he believes are ghosts. Haunted by the spectre of his ethnic identity, he receives a message from a special visitor.

Quiet observation of a physically handicapped woman. The initial images, reminiscent of footage shot for patient records, reveal that effortless movement isn’t always a given. Luckily a sun-drenched day makes every walk a little better.

A group of deaf-mute students sing mass at a church in Warsaw. Accompanied by a dolorous organ they express themselves in a hitherto impossible way. The students cannot hear themselves or one another, but music is music. Particularly in God’s ears.

Welcome to the set of "The Wolf And The Sheep". The role of the Wolf is played by a woman, the role of the Sheep is played by a man who is - gay. These characters, ambiguous in various ways, are forced into an unambiguous film form (symbolising social conventions). Horror is mixed with slapstick comedy and the protagonists struggle like animals in a black-and-white tape cage.

“The Landscape is a film on moving, being held and being placed in places and in between places. There is no explanation on the story behind it. There is no deeper thought or symbolism behind it. Like driving, listening to the music and looking at the landscape. All passes by”. – KG

Arnold has been participating in a competition for unusual swimming equipment for twenty-three years and builds incredible boats and rafts every year. As always, the whole family supports him. Bozen's wife and two adult daughters Dagna and Marika help him build a new ship. However, from the very beginning, the design work is not going according to plan… In addition, Arnold decides to end his career and participate in the competition for the last time. He hopes that his family can get on the podium and win for the last time.

This wonderful Polish non-narrative animation takes as its theme the constriction and confinement in which we often find ourselves. Viewers will be able to consider when barriers and borders are and are not necessary.