Apokawixa

FOCUS: FEATURE FILMS

Focus: Feature films is a competition of full-length acting films with distinctively original style. Both young and experienced filmmakers will compete for the prize. This year, 8 films from 6 countries will take part in the competition.
To celebrate the 75th jubilee of Animated Film Studio in Bielsko-Biała, before the screening of each feature film, we will present the latest short animations of AFS studio.

The Curse, reż. Piotr Kabat (Poland) 2020, 8’, 15+
The two creatures live in seemingly unrelated realities. Little do they know that their absurd behavior makes a great impact on the realities in which they exist. What is a free and careless existence for one of the creatures, is a struggle for survival for the other.

Apokawixa, dir. Xawery Żuławski (Poland) 2022, 120’, 15+
A group of high school graduates tired of lockdowns decide to organize a wild party at the seaside. Despite of frightfully increasing condensation of cyanobacteria in the Baltic Sea and alarming cases of infections everything seems to go according to the plan – the beach, dances, sex, alcohol, romantic infatuations and disappointment. Minute by minute the situation begins to slip through the fingers… Film awarded at Gdynia Film Festival.
After the screening, we invite you to join a discussion.