OPENING SCREENING OF THE KORELACJE FESTIVAL AND THE 19TH LFF: “CURSE OF SNAKES VALLEY” WITH AN ORIGINAL NARRATION BY ŁONA + LIVE BROADCAST FROM WROCŁAW: OPENING CEREMONY AND POST-SCREENING DISCUSSION

The film will be shown in Polish language with a voice-over and subtitles for deaf and hard-of-hearing viewers (SDH). The discussion will be interpreted into Polish Sign Language (PJM).
We invite you to the premiere screening of “Curse of Snakes Valley” directed by Marek Piestrak, featuring an original narration by Łona. This is this year’s opening film of the Korelacje Festival – an innovative event showcasing Polish films enriched with original audio descriptions created by masters of the spoken word – which opens that same evening in Wrocław!

Evening program:

▪️Live broadcast from the festival’s opening ceremony.

▪️Screening of Ted Wiggin’s animated film “MIMT” with an original narration by artist Daria ze Śląska (3m 45s) – part of the Kinomural ZŁANOCKA 2025 project.

▪️Screening of “Curse of Snakes Valley” directed by Marek Piestrak with an original narration by Łona. The film will feature a voice-over (Łona) and subtitles for deaf and hard-of-hearing viewers (SDH).

▪️Live broadcast of the post-screening discussion with Łona, Marek Piestrak, and Piotr Krzykwa. Host: Robert Więckowski (Culture Without Barriers Foundation). The discussion will be interpreted into Polish Sign Language (PJM).

The Lublin audience will have the opportunity to take part in the discussion in Wrocław by sending questions via Messenger or via a dedicated WhatsApp number.

Curse of Snakes Valley, dir. Marek Piestrak (Poland, 1987), 90’, 15+
Original narration: Łona

The Korelacje Festival has brought the film back in a new form – with an original narration by Łona (Adam Zieliński). As he himself says: “It’s the most soaring act of adventure cinema ever made in the former Eastern Bloc countries.”

Lao-Vietnamese border, November 1954. A helicopter, shot by guerilla fire, lands on the edge of the jungle. The pilot, Bernard Traven, searching for water, stumbles upon a Buddhist temple, from which he steals a sacred relic. The monk casts a curse… Sorbonne, thirty years later. Jan Tarnas, a specialist in ancient Thai manuscripts, is giving a lecture. Unexpectedly, Traven appears, asking him to decipher a manuscript taken from the relic. While opening it in the lab, the lights suddenly go out and snakes appear.
The Korelacje Festival is an innovative event at the intersection of film art and accessibility culture, presenting Polish films in a new format — with narrators’ voices woven between the original dialogues. It is best known for the cult screening of Marek Piestrak’s “The Wolf” featuring an original narration by Dorota Masłowska. This year, Łona, Matylda Damięcka, Maciej Kurowicki, Sylwia Chutnik, Małgorzata Lebda, and Bartosz Kędzierski have written and recorded their own narrations for Polish films. Their chosen works, enriched with literary commentary, will be presented during the 2nd edition of the Korelacje Festival at the DCF cinema in Wrocław. The event celebrates accessible cinema: 11 screenings, including 6 film premieres with original narrations, as well as post-screening discussions.

A film with an original narration is a kind of subjective guided tour through the film — an individual, free, and often emotional interpretation that allows audiences to see the film through the narrator’s eyes.
The festival is organized in Wrocław by Studio Kineskop and the Lower Silesia Film Center (DCF).

Event in Polish.