The Korelacje Festival in Wrocław is an innovative event in the areas of film art and accessible culture. It presents Polish films in a new formula – the plot is accompanied by an original narration created by the masters of words invited to the project.

This is not a typical audio description, which is usually a verbal description of what is happening on the screen. However, it is a type of subjective tour of the film, a way of interpreting it in a personal, free and often emotional way, which allows the recipients to watch the film through the eyes of the narrator. A film with an original audio description becomes a completely new work. Thanks to the correlations between different fields of art and the way it is presented, the audience has the opportunity to experience cinema in an unusual, surprising version.

Thanks to the cooperation with the Korelacje Festival, we can present two films from last year’s edition in Lublin for the first time.

To Kill This Love, dir. Janusz Morgenstern (Poland) 1972, 92’, 16+

Film with Polish narration (the original audio description read by Agnieszka Wolny – Hamkało) and with subtitles for the Deaf or Hard-of-Hearing (SDH). The screening is free of charge, but you must show your ticket when entering the room. Tickets are available at the box office of the Centre for Culture in Lublin. 

Two young people, Magda and Andrzej, are trying to cope with the demanding reality of the early 70s. She is in love, yet naive, and works hard to rent an apartment and free herself from her father’s control. He is a sly guy that instead of working, he prefers to earn money in other ways and enters some arrangements that are difficult to get out of. But true love is not so easy to kill. One of the most important films in Janusz Morgenstern’s career critically examines the realities of the Polish People’s Republic, and Janusz Głowacki’s script brilliantly highlighted the absurdities and horrors of the characters’ life situations. Agnieszka Wolny-Hamkało’s original audio description allows us to see the story of Magda and Andrzej from a new perspective, as well as through feminist lenses, and the prism of the social and moral changes that have occurred since the premiere. At the same time, it brings out beauty and poetry from Morgenstern’s film, that is not often obvious, but hidden under a layer of rough realism or bitter irony. It focuses our attention on details, close-ups, emotions, as well as on the beauty of the characters in contrast to the brutal reality. Agnieszka Wolny-Hamkało’s narration is like a conversation, both with the characters and the viewers. Seemingly carefree, yet over time, it allows us to learn something about others and about ourselves.