From the sound of the sea to the flames
How to tell the story which will not fade into the spectator’s mind right after watching it? – Those authors definitely have an answer to this question: Vasco Saltão, Douwe Dijkstra and Geordy Couturiau – our critic has the impression that one of the stories tear our hearts apart and leave the spectators with fire. […]
Playing with the distance
– Erica Kwok created an extremely universal and refreshing image – our reviewer about the short film titled “27” representing Hong Kong at the Lublin Film Festival. The modern world loudly praises young people achieving impressive, even unbelievable success. It’s best for them to be as young as possible and with the longest list of […]
Living poetry of love
– “Of Kisses and Capes” is an extremely poetic film, very sincere and honest – says our reviewer, who watched the German film directed by Elena Weiss. The short film competes at the Lublin Film Festival as a part of the Focus: Theme screening. This is a competition in which the organizers pay special attention […]
But you know for sure that you will like it
The 17th edition of the Lublin Film Festival continues since Friday. As every year, the organizers have prepared for you a set of competition films and free screenings. However, our festival is not only about screenings or workshops – it is primarily about people: film enthusiasts, volunteers and, of course, the viewers. Each participant comes […]
Documentary in the form of fiction
– Throughout the entire screening, I had the impression that I was not watching a feature film, but spying on the hero – writes our reviewer after the screening of ”Clouds of Monsoon” by an Indian filmmaker. The film was presented at the Kolkata IFF, among others. The screening at the Lublin Film Festival was […]
Conversation about “Holy Water”
Lublin Film Festival, which starts on Friday, is not only about screenings and workshops. There is also time to talk with the festival guests. Artists can talk about their work in front of the camera in a space created in the Centre for Culture in Lublin. The first interviewee was the director Andrei Kutsila. He […]
“A juror’s job is like working in a slaughterhouse” – an interview with Magdalena Wleklik, juror of the 16th Lublin Film Festival.
It is not the first time you have been a guest at the Festival, right? I was there with my own student short film years ago. It was my first edition of the Golden Anteaters exactly twelve years ago. How do you remember that Festival? There was an incredible atmosphere. I remember drinking coffee and […]
“It was a thought I had on the subject of one of the most important moments in our lives, namely entering the world of adulthood” – interview with Adam Porębowicz, director of the movie “Sincerity”
What inspired you to create “Sincerity”? Mainly two things. First of all, it was a thought I had on the subject of one of the most important moments in our lives, namely entering the world of adulthood – a goodbye to a forlorn world, to people, bonds, to ways of spending time that in later […]
“This film really helped me”- a conversation with Artur Wyrzykowski, director of the movie “Unburial”
“This film really helped me”- a conversation with Artur Wyrzykowski, director of the movie “Unburial” Your movie is being presented during the section called “Focus: Idea”. It is a part of the festival dedicated for movies with an Idea- ones that are impossible to categorise by genre or subject. When you were creating “Unburial”, did […]
“The tramway veiled almost the whole world…” – an interview with Bartosz Reetz, the director of “Tramway”
How did you come up with the idea for “Tramway”? During the preparations for my first movie called “The Stop”, while I was walking through Grudziądz (as the plot of both films is set there), I spotted a tram waiting at the stop in the town square. Two of its carriages were connected, and through […]