/ Jakub Socha

Can you really summerise a festival consisting of over 400 films and plenty of accompanying events? It’s like the internet, everyone’s got their own

Political correctness was in place this year. Polish filmmakers have obviously been reading the papers, paying particular attention to the national news sections

A director isn’t someone who just stands at the bridge and shouts out orders. A film is something that happens between people, something that’s alive. I really like that community

Movies often take second stage to meetings with the people behind the films. Audiences eagerly participate in the dialogue; there’s no ironic smirking

The theme of Smoleńsk is little more than a lure in ‘Straight from Heaven’. Matwiejczyk has built a narrative corpus that could easily be used for any other occasion

While watching Made in Poland, I began to wonder what the film would have been like if the main character had a different word tattooed on his forehead, such as “beetle” or “deer”. Maybe the animals would succeed in popping this pretentious balloon, this puppet theatre pretending to be punk rock

Who cares if all they see in her is an ‘untouchable and holy’ woman. The point is that the camera is equally incapable of perceiving anything more in her

‘Balcerowicz. Gra o wszystko’ (Balcerowicz. Do or Die) is a failure. Instead of an in-depth portrait of one of the pivotal figures of the last twenty years we’ve received something that resembles an ordinary political marketing product