Every year, shortly after the Cannes Film Festival rolls up its red carpet on the Croisette, the documentary festivities get under way in the Polish city of Krakow with the Krakow Film Festival. The International Documentary Competition features 16 titles, including 12 European films or co-productions, among which there are three international premieres and one world premiere. 

Krakow’s other competitive sections are the National Competition, DocFilmMusic Competition and Short Film Competition. Each of these has a separate jury, and Jacek Petrycki, Marta Prus (whose last film, Over the Limit [+lire aussi :
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All in all, the festival will show almost 250 films across four competitive and 11 non-competitive sections. “Many of the titles being presented in the International Documentary Competition will challenge the way the audience sees the world. The subjects tackled by these films include the walls that we construct in our minds, the shadows of recently ended wars or resurrected ghosts from the past, which are sometimes scary and sometimes grotesquely funny,” explains Anita Piotrowska, one of the festival’s programmers, in a press release.

The Krakow Film Festival also has a very strong industry section, aptly dubbed KFF Industry. The main events in this section are a production case study on the aforementioned Over the Limit, a master class with Caroline Leaf, the KFF Industry Meetings, a Conference Focus on Finland, and Animated in Poland. For the fifth time, Doc Lab Poland will host a series of workshops and consultations that will conclude with two pitching sessions: Docs to Start (for projects that are at the development stage) and Docs to Go! (for films that are either being edited or are in post-production). The special-guest country will be Finland. 

“It is yet another Baltic country, after Sweden, Estonia and Lithuania, whose cinema we want to present to the audience of the Krakow Film Festival,” said Barbara Orlicz-Szczypuła, head of the programme department at the KFF, in a statement. “Finnish cinema is not known well enough in Poland, especially documentary and short films.” The Focus on Finland started on 28 May and will present six feature-length docs (including the acclaimed The Magic Life of V [+lire aussi :
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The KFF opened on Sunday with a screening of the Polish movie The Wind. A Documentary Thriller [+lire aussi :
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The full International Documentary Competition line-up is as follows: Advocate [+lire aussi :
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