The 17th edition of the Millennium Docs Against Gravity Film Festival was originally supposed to take place in May, but in the face of the pandemic, the organizers decided to postpone the event to September. This year’s festival, where we will see the best documentaries, will take place from 4 to 18 September in seven cities. The people of Krakow will have the opportunity to see selected films from the 17th edition at the Kino Pod Baranami from 11 to 13 September.
What is the Millennium Docs Against Gravity Film Festival?
The Millennium Docs Against Gravity Film Festival is the largest documentary film festival in Poland. It is also the only film festival in Europe that takes place simultaneously in 7 different cities. Documentary premieres can be watched in cinemas in Warsaw, Gdynia, Wrocław, Katowice, Bydgoszcz, Lublin, and from 2020 Poznań).
As every year, Kino Pod Baranami will show selected films from this year’s edition of the Millennium Docs Against Gravity festival. Full-length documentaries showing a look at various phenomena of the present day will be shown on the weekend from 11 to 13 September.
The program
6 unique documentaries portraying the phenomena of the modern world will screen in the Kino Pod Baranami. A special role in the review program will be played by women whose collective portrait is presented in the international documentary by Yanna Arthus-Bertrand and Anastasia Mikova. “Woman” is a unique project, in which 2,000 female characters from as many as 50 different countries took part.
Out of the multitude of female voices, Polish documentary filmmakers Małgorzata Goliszewska and Kasia Mateja choose one, belonging to the elegant seventy-year-old Jola, who in the film “A Lesson of Love” reveals her doubts about the emerging feeling for Wojtek, whom she met during the dance.
The dark face of new technologies is shown by Tonje Hessen Schei in “iHuman”, a warning essay on artificial intelligence. What will this novelty ultimately turn out to be? Will it be a salvation for mankind or a curse? The alarmist tone of the film is balanced by Tarantino’s documentary “Bastard of Cinema”, filled with pure fun, devoted to the work of one of the most important contemporary directors. The film features a number of actors known from the production of Quentin Tarantino (including Tim Roth, Jamie Foxx, Christoph Waltz), who reveal the backstage of famous titles and talk about the way the creator of “Reservoir Dogs” works.
The program of the weekend review also included two films dealing with the topic of religiosity. “Wall of Shadows” by Eliza Kubarska is a portrait of life in the shadow of great mountains, one of which is considered a divine place, inaccessible to people. Sherpas who live in a village at the foot of the massif are faced with a difficult question: can they break the eternal taboo and climb the sacred mountain to provide for their family?
An ironic look at the sphere of the sacred is offered in the documentary “How God Seeked Karel”, produced by Vít Klusák and Filip Remunda, authors of the famous “Bohemian Dream”. Their latest production presents the adventures of a group of Czech skeptics who set off on a journey through Poland to get to know the face of its religiosity.
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