Festival journal

Mexican ,,Lolita”

Using her own life as inspiration, Anabel Caso with great sensitivity portrayed the world through the eyes of inexperienced and emotionally immature girls. Despite the fact that the film comes from a seemingly distant cultural background, I believe that Polish viewers will find many parallels to their own experiences and our reality, writes Alicja Magdziak […]

Was that a festival film?

This Will Not Be a Festival Film – an 8-minute long animation by Julia Orlik showing the author’s personal story, full of irony and self-analysis. The film is not only an artistic experiment but also a bold take on challenges and pressures in relation to the creative process, says Bartłomej Olechowski from LFF Media Group […]

With a friend whispering comments into your ear

“To Kill This Love” is not a film to be found in the handbook of a novice cinemagoer. ‘I am grateful to Agnieszka Wolny-Hamkało for choosing it to be presented with the original audio description,’ writes Natasza Kornacka of the LFF Media Group after Saturday’s screening of the old Polish film recalled by the contemporary […]

Within 24 minutes

Watching this film, it’s easy to sympathize with the role of the main character and find out what it means to choose between “to love” and “not to be loved”. And what does the word “helpless” mean. Do I recommend it? Definitely. Although I would not say that this short film became my favorite – […]

Rosa, the woman who always tries to put on a brave face

“Milonga” is a melancholic and complicated, but at the same time funny movie, which does not minimize the subjects brought up there – Kamil Janas from the Lublin Film Festival’s media group wrote about the portrayal of Laura Gonzalez after the polish premiere of the movie during the Lublin Film Festival. Milonga is a variant […]

That’s the wonderful life

How to restore heart beating without a defibrillator? The creators provide the answer in their film: with really good music. – It’s a short movie that really stuck in my head. Making this film a musical was a brilliant solution – writes Natasza Kornacka from the LFF Media Group about Stranger Focus: Idea is a […]

The gray zone of death

The film’s portrayal of the painful stages of death of terminally ill patients from a palliative home-care nurse’s perspective is truly incredible. There is no black or white – writes Alicja Magdziak from LFF Media Group about “Ivo”. “Ivo” directed by Eva Trobisch was the first full-length film played at this year’s Lublin Film Festival. […]

The choice

– These films are definitely worth watching. Both stories deal with making very complex decisions and approach it from different sides. They encourage the viewers to immerse deeply into their world to feel the problems they talk about – says our reviewer, who writes about two short films: “I Promise You Paradise” and “The Silent […]

Uncertain departure

– Participants of the discussion after the “Zoom in on migration” screenings identified issues related to Chinese society as the most distant from us, both culturally and geographically. It knocked me out of my thoughts, because it was the Chinese film directed by Yan Kunao that seemed closest to me – writes our reviewer after […]

Caring parents, adventurous children and the world

– Something dramatic about this film is that there are no guilty or wrong characters, everyone can be understood and supported. All we can do is watch and hope that this whole story will end with a happy ending – writes our reviewer after watching the film “Affricate”. It was the Polish premiere of a […]