Bark You Mongrel, Raise Hell My Pearl 2006
Experimental animation short from Poland.
Experimental animation short from Poland.
Commando Filip Brutecki falls in love with a teenage girl and plans a future together with her. One day the man makes a huge mistake, as a result of which his beloved breaks off the engagement. When the spy learns that the girl has been kidnapped, he wants to find her and win back her heart. The abduction forces him to return to the criminal path he once abandoned for his chosen one. Philip begins a frantic search for his fiancée, and nothing can stop him.
The film is a double portrait with children in the background. The grandmother and the mother differ in their moral assessment of in vitro fertilisation, which is important inasmuch as two grandsons were born thanks to this method. The convictions of one of them cannot be reconciled with the decisions of the other. The toughening of the older woman’s position, in particular, locks them both in an ideological clinch. But the difficult conversation about the possibilities of reuniting love, faith and ideology is still going on.
The director interviews villagers about their lives post-communism.
Polish professional heavyweight Marcin Rozalski cuts a menacing figure with his shaved head, tattoo-covered body and his two pit-bulls, Stalin and Satan. The movie takes an intimate look at the man behind the bellicose mask and what motivates him to fight everyday.
In a lonely little house, tucked between an endless forest and a mighty ocean cliff, lives a woodcutter with his little son. Their life goes on as in a fairy tale - after work, the father prepares wooden toys, they walk and play together. The son infinitely loves his father, is fascinated by his strength and care. One day, during a trip to the forest together, the woodcutter cuts down an unusual tree. This event completely changes the father - and turns their world upside down.
A look at the life of a woman in communist Poland whose day is divided between monotonous factory work, standing in queues for food, and taking care of her children.
"A film of 50 seconds showing a pianist playing Chopin's Valse Minute in the middle of a sports stadium." - MIFF. Screened in the 1967 New York Film Festival.
For years, they functioned on the Polish music market as "those who appear in the label Ninja Tune." Today Wroclaw duo refers to the tags of humor. "Oh look! Good Polish and appreciated abroad "- he laughs Igor Box and adds:" Our success has had a national character. We drew on the tradition of Polish jazz, and drew from it [...] our Polish vanity was met by [our] team. " During the concert, we will hear the following songs: 1. Intro 2. Test Drive 3. Konfusion 4. Break in 5. If Music Was that Easy 6. Simple Version 7. Sigma 8. Sea 9. Flying Officer 10. Sculpture 11. So Far 12. High 13. Not to Bad 14. Break out
An amateur recording of George Polednik's 60th birthday party that took place on February 14, 2009.
Propulsive Polish avant-garde animation following clouds of shapes that resemble nebulae or stellar surfaces.
“This movie is a representation of my spirit’s volatile state. I used animation with poetic comment to analyze my emotions and vexations. I used pencil drawings in translucent frames to show a state of lightness. On the drawings you can see the elements taken from imagination and from real external sights. I did so because our mental states are built from what we can see and what we remember or imagine in abstraction.”—Wojciech Bakowski