main pageDOCUMENTARY FILMS SPECIAL SCREENINGS
Special Screenings of documentary films is a section presenting interesting documentary productions of various kinds, with high visual or expressive values. This year the audience will have a chance to watch:
CAFÉ DE LOS MAESTROS
original title: Café de los maestros
director: Miguel Kohan
cinematographer: Miguel Kohan
country: Argentina, USA, Brazil, UK
year: 2008
Legendary tango dancers starring in a documentary compared with Buena Vista Social Club. This is a musical epopee, showing the greatest tangos of the 1940s and 1950s, interpreted by the brightest stars of that time, such as Atilli Stampone and Leopoldo Federico. The brain behind this concept, Gustavo Santaolalla (Oscar-winning composer for Babel and Brokeback Mountain), presents his vision of art, which – in his opinion – impacts on individual identity. He emphasizes that his main goal was to prove “that this music genre is still full of life and performed by musicians with true passion.”
CAPTURING REALITY
original title: Capturing Reality. The Art of Documentary
director: Pepita Ferrari
cinematographer: Marc Gadoury
country: Canada
year: 2008
Directors have been turning their cameras on the world since the time of the Lumiére brothers and documentary filmmaking has sparked an impassioned creative debate ever since. Pepita Ferrari managed to gather before her camera a group of over 30 luminaries of documentary filmmaking, including Albert Maysles, Errol Morris, Nick Broomfield, Kevin Macdonald, Kim Longinotto and that great iconoclast Werner Herzog. Telling about their work on particular titles, they offer insight into their craft while reflecting on the nature of representation and the continually contested status of the truth. Where do directors get their ideas for documentary films? Can a camera capture reality? What ethical issues arise when portraying real lives? More than 100 documentary clips enliven the discussion, offering a panoramic overview of contemporary documentary filmmaking, from Grey Gardens and The Thin Blue Line to The Day I Will Never Forget and Darwin’s Nightmare.
CARL STØRMER AND HIS DETECTIVE CAMERA
original title: ORIGINAL TITLE Carl Størmer og hans detektivkamera
director: Evald Otterstad
cinematographer: Carl Størmer
country: Norway
year: 2009
Carl Størmer, known as the “Northern Lights photographer”, was one of Norway´s pioneering photographers. This film reconstructs Størmer´s very first and rather unique photography project, his spy photography of 1890s Oslo.
HERE IS WHAT IS
original title: Here Is What Is
director: Daniel Lanois, Adam Samuels, Adam Vollick
cinematographer: Adam Vollick
country: Canada
year: 2007
Quebec-born artist/singer-songwriter/record producer/filmmaker Daniel Lanois explores the true nature of creativity by inviting the viewer into the very studio where he has recorded some of the best work of his illustrious career. To Lanois, improvisation is an essential part of creativity, and it is this aspect of the creative process on which he and co-directors Adam Vollick and Adam Samuels focus most of their attentions. In the comfort of his self-described "sonic temple," Lanois and such famed musicians as Garth Hudson, Brian Blade, and longtime collaborator Brian Eno embark on a creative journey the likes of which have rarely, if ever, been captured on camera before.
RECIPES FOR DISASTER
original title: Katastrofin aineksia
director: John Webster
cinematographer: The Webster Family, Tuomo Hutri
country: Finland
year: 2008
Director John Webster convinces his wife and two small children that the whole family should go on an oil diet, yet without having to give up their middle class suburban lifestyle. All the everyday things which we do not do or which we cannot help doing, make up recipes for disaster. In this comedy of errors, they find themselves questioning their values and putting to test their will power and ultimately, their happiness.
ROMAN POLANSKI: WANTED AND DESIRED
original title: Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired
director: Marina Zenovich
cinematographer: Tanja Koop
country: UK, USA
year: 2008
The documentary Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired attempts to answer a question of what actually happened in 1977 and why the hero escaped from the American jurisdiction, being accused of a rape on 13-year-old girl. It is a very contemporary question for the reason of recent events, in consequence of which the Polish director is being kept in Swiss prison and waiting for his extradition to US. Before the verdict is announced, it seems important to get to know all facts, especially those underexposed aspects of the case, to put it in a broader context.
THEMERSON & THEMERSON
original title: Themerson & Themerson
director: Victoria Szymanska
cinematographer: Wojciech Staroń, Kacper Lisowski
country: UK, France, Poland
year: 2009
The love story of an unusual and unique, creative union from Poland. Franciszka and Stefan Themerson lived and worked together for almost 60 years, first in Poland, then in France to eventually settle in England. The only time when they were separated was the outbreak of the Second World War, but even then they remained connected. It is a well treasured secret hidden in the culture and art of the XX century. She was a dreamer, he was a thinker. He had a question, she was the answer. The two people once met to create poetry of life.
U2 3D
original title: U2 3D
director: Catherine Owens, Mark Pellington
cinematographer: Peter Anderson, Tom Krueger
country: USA
year: 2007
U2 3D puts viewers within the pulsing energy of a live U2 stadium concert. Marrying innovative digital 3D imagery and 5.1 Surround Sound, it creates an immersive theatrical experience unlike any 3D or concert film that has come before. Shot in South Africa during the “Vertigo” tour, U2 3D continues the band’s use of technology to create exceptional multisensory experience.
MARS UNDERGROUND, THE
original title: Mars Underground, The
director: Scott Gill
cinematographer: Jake Zortman
country: USA
year: 2007
The Mars Underground is a fascinating look at maverick aerospace engineer Dr. Robert Zubrin, who dreams of humanity one day colonizing Mars, and follows his ongoing struggles with NASA to get the first manned-mission off the ground. Renowned for designing the first workable human-Mars mission, Zubrin has been arguing for years that a humans-to-Mars expedition is not a venture for the far future or one that will cost us impossible billions, but is a goal that could be attained within ten years using present-day technology and by living off Mars’ resources. Shot in High Definition and full of 3D animation, the film takes us on a spellbinding first journey to the red planet, and envisions a future inhabited Mars that could be transformed into a blue world. The screening is co-organized by Mars Society Polska.
TIME WARP
Time Warp reveals our world in astonishing and spectacular new ways by radically changing the lens of time. How does a face contort when punched by an Ultimate Fighter champion? What happens when an apple is hit with a bullet? In fact, there are countless events the world has to offer that our limited senses cannot fully appreciate with only the naked eye – until now. Welcome to Discovery Channel's new series, Time Warp, in which MIT scientist and teacher Jeff Lieberman uses new technologies to bring never-seen-before wonders into a form that your body can actually process.
Episode: Dry Ice
The Time Warp crew with their cameras filming at high speed, show us the catastrophic results of pouring water onto the burning fat, the explosive power of dry ice, the wonders of soap bubbles, and instruct us how to successfully do the tablecloth trick.
Episode: Free Runner
Jeff and Matt film phenomena which belong to both art and science: free running, contradicting the law of gravitation, liquid-or-solid non-Newtonian fluid, as well as the beauty of water drops.
David Lynch Presents: INTERVIEW PROJECT
director: Austin Lynch, Jason S.
INTERVIEW PROJECT is a portrait of everyday Americans filmed during an extensive road trip throughout the United States. Beautifully shot and edited, INTERVIEW PROJECT captures the ups and downs of the human experience through the meaningful accounts of these people. In 2008, Lynch dispatched a small group of filmmakers, lovingly known as OEthe team?, to travel across the country and talk to people about their lives. The result was INTERVIEW PROJECT. The plan for INTERVIEW PROJECT was that there would be no still allow for serendipitous moments to occur. The team found the people in bars, restaurants, in front of their homes, along the highway, or in other OEordinary? places. The resulting interviews were then compiled into shorter segments that provide a true glimpse into the hearts and minds of these men and women who shared their stories willingly and with great passion. INTERVIEW PROJECT has debuted on davidlynch.com via a new component of the website. This component provides the framework for INTERVIEW PROJECT by showing each of the 3-5 minute episodes in an integrated environment. In this context, the series takes on new complexities as viewers are forced to reconsider these individuals in relation to one another, as well as to themselves. definitive plan. The filmmakers chose to approach the assignment in an unconventional way, letting a mixture of fate and their own judgment guide them. Pre-production was limited to outlining the basic questions that each person would be asked. The interviews themselves would be structured, yet would still allow for serendipitous moments to occur. The team found the people in bars, restaurants, in front of their homes, along the highway, or in other OEordinary? places. The resulting interviews were then compiled into shorter segments that provide a true glimpse into the hearts and minds of these men and women who shared their stories willingly and with great passion. INTERVIEW PROJECT has debuted on davidlynch.com via a new component of the website. This component provides the framework for INTERVIEW PROJECT by showing each of the 3-5 minute episodes in an integrated environment. In this context, the series takes on new complexities as viewers are forced to reconsider these individuals in relation to one another, as well as to themselves.
SCREENINGS TIMES AND DATES
CAFÉ DE LOS MAESTROS
Polonia cinema (Medium), 30 Nov, 19:30
CAPTURING REALITY
Polonia cinema (Main), 29 Nov, 20:15
CARL STØRMER AND HIS DETECTIVE CAMERA
Polonia cinema (Main), 04 Dec, 21:00
HERE IS WHAT IS
Polonia cinema (Medium), 04 Dec, 18:30
INTERVIEW PROJECT
Polonia cinema (Main), 30 Nov, 21:15
MARS UNDERGROUND, THE
Polonia cinema (Main), 28 Nov, 22:00
RECIPES FOR DISASTER
Polonia cinema (Medium), 01 Dec, 16:00
ROMAN POLANSKI: WANTED AND DESIRED
Polonia cinema (Medium), 29 Nov, 17:45
THEMERSON & THEMERSON
Polonia cinema (Main), 04 Dec, 21:00
TIME WARP
Polonia cinema (Main), 01 Dec, 20:00
U2 3D
Polonia cinema (Main), 28 Nov, 20:00
Polonia cinema (Main), 29 Nov, 22:30
Polonia cinema (Main), 30 Nov, 22:15
Polonia cinema (Main), 02 Dec, 22:15
Polonia cinema (Main), 05 Dec, 11:00
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CAFÉ DE LOS MAESTROS
original title: Café de los maestros
director: Miguel Kohan
cinematographer: Miguel Kohan
country: Argentina, USA, Brazil, UK
year: 2008
Legendary tango dancers starring in a documentary compared with Buena Vista Social Club. This is a musical epopee, showing the greatest tangos of the 1940s and 1950s, interpreted by the brightest stars of that time, such as Atilli Stampone and Leopoldo Federico. The brain behind this concept, Gustavo Santaolalla (Oscar-winning composer for Babel and Brokeback Mountain), presents his vision of art, which – in his opinion – impacts on individual identity. He emphasizes that his main goal was to prove “that this music genre is still full of life and performed by musicians with true passion.”
 |
CAPTURING REALITY
original title: Capturing Reality. The Art of Documentary
director: Pepita Ferrari
cinematographer: Marc Gadoury
country: Canada
year: 2008
Directors have been turning their cameras on the world since the time of the Lumiére brothers and documentary filmmaking has sparked an impassioned creative debate ever since. Pepita Ferrari managed to gather before her camera a group of over 30 luminaries of documentary filmmaking, including Albert Maysles, Errol Morris, Nick Broomfield, Kevin Macdonald, Kim Longinotto and that great iconoclast Werner Herzog. Telling about their work on particular titles, they offer insight into their craft while reflecting on the nature of representation and the continually contested status of the truth. Where do directors get their ideas for documentary films? Can a camera capture reality? What ethical issues arise when portraying real lives? More than 100 documentary clips enliven the discussion, offering a panoramic overview of contemporary documentary filmmaking, from Grey Gardens and The Thin Blue Line to The Day I Will Never Forget and Darwin’s Nightmare.
 |
CARL STØRMER AND HIS DETECTIVE CAMERA
original title: ORIGINAL TITLE Carl Størmer og hans detektivkamera
director: Evald Otterstad
cinematographer: Carl Størmer
country: Norway
year: 2009
Carl Størmer, known as the “Northern Lights photographer”, was one of Norway´s pioneering photographers. This film reconstructs Størmer´s very first and rather unique photography project, his spy photography of 1890s Oslo.
 |
HERE IS WHAT IS
original title: Here Is What Is
director: Daniel Lanois, Adam Samuels, Adam Vollick
cinematographer: Adam Vollick
country: Canada
year: 2007
Quebec-born artist/singer-songwriter/record producer/filmmaker Daniel Lanois explores the true nature of creativity by inviting the viewer into the very studio where he has recorded some of the best work of his illustrious career. To Lanois, improvisation is an essential part of creativity, and it is this aspect of the creative process on which he and co-directors Adam Vollick and Adam Samuels focus most of their attentions. In the comfort of his self-described "sonic temple," Lanois and such famed musicians as Garth Hudson, Brian Blade, and longtime collaborator Brian Eno embark on a creative journey the likes of which have rarely, if ever, been captured on camera before.
 |
RECIPES FOR DISASTER
original title: Katastrofin aineksia
director: John Webster
cinematographer: The Webster Family, Tuomo Hutri
country: Finland
year: 2008
Director John Webster convinces his wife and two small children that the whole family should go on an oil diet, yet without having to give up their middle class suburban lifestyle. All the everyday things which we do not do or which we cannot help doing, make up recipes for disaster. In this comedy of errors, they find themselves questioning their values and putting to test their will power and ultimately, their happiness.
 |
ROMAN POLANSKI: WANTED AND DESIRED
original title: Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired
director: Marina Zenovich
cinematographer: Tanja Koop
country: UK, USA
year: 2008
The documentary Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired attempts to answer a question of what actually happened in 1977 and why the hero escaped from the American jurisdiction, being accused of a rape on 13-year-old girl. It is a very contemporary question for the reason of recent events, in consequence of which the Polish director is being kept in Swiss prison and waiting for his extradition to US. Before the verdict is announced, it seems important to get to know all facts, especially those underexposed aspects of the case, to put it in a broader context.
 |
THEMERSON & THEMERSON
original title: Themerson & Themerson
director: Victoria Szymanska
cinematographer: Wojciech Staroń, Kacper Lisowski
country: UK, France, Poland
year: 2009
The love story of an unusual and unique, creative union from Poland. Franciszka and Stefan Themerson lived and worked together for almost 60 years, first in Poland, then in France to eventually settle in England. The only time when they were separated was the outbreak of the Second World War, but even then they remained connected. It is a well treasured secret hidden in the culture and art of the XX century. She was a dreamer, he was a thinker. He had a question, she was the answer. The two people once met to create poetry of life.
 |
U2 3D
original title: U2 3D
director: Catherine Owens, Mark Pellington
cinematographer: Peter Anderson, Tom Krueger
country: USA
year: 2007
U2 3D puts viewers within the pulsing energy of a live U2 stadium concert. Marrying innovative digital 3D imagery and 5.1 Surround Sound, it creates an immersive theatrical experience unlike any 3D or concert film that has come before. Shot in South Africa during the “Vertigo” tour, U2 3D continues the band’s use of technology to create exceptional multisensory experience.
 |
 |
MARS UNDERGROUND, THE
original title: Mars Underground, The
director: Scott Gill
cinematographer: Jake Zortman
country: USA
year: 2007
The Mars Underground is a fascinating look at maverick aerospace engineer Dr. Robert Zubrin, who dreams of humanity one day colonizing Mars, and follows his ongoing struggles with NASA to get the first manned-mission off the ground. Renowned for designing the first workable human-Mars mission, Zubrin has been arguing for years that a humans-to-Mars expedition is not a venture for the far future or one that will cost us impossible billions, but is a goal that could be attained within ten years using present-day technology and by living off Mars’ resources. Shot in High Definition and full of 3D animation, the film takes us on a spellbinding first journey to the red planet, and envisions a future inhabited Mars that could be transformed into a blue world. The screening is co-organized by Mars Society Polska.
 |
 |
TIME WARP
Time Warp reveals our world in astonishing and spectacular new ways by radically changing the lens of time. How does a face contort when punched by an Ultimate Fighter champion? What happens when an apple is hit with a bullet? In fact, there are countless events the world has to offer that our limited senses cannot fully appreciate with only the naked eye – until now. Welcome to Discovery Channel's new series, Time Warp, in which MIT scientist and teacher Jeff Lieberman uses new technologies to bring never-seen-before wonders into a form that your body can actually process.
Episode: Dry Ice
The Time Warp crew with their cameras filming at high speed, show us the catastrophic results of pouring water onto the burning fat, the explosive power of dry ice, the wonders of soap bubbles, and instruct us how to successfully do the tablecloth trick.
Episode: Free Runner
Jeff and Matt film phenomena which belong to both art and science: free running, contradicting the law of gravitation, liquid-or-solid non-Newtonian fluid, as well as the beauty of water drops.
 |
David Lynch Presents: INTERVIEW PROJECT
director: Austin Lynch, Jason S.
INTERVIEW PROJECT is a portrait of everyday Americans filmed during an extensive road trip throughout the United States. Beautifully shot and edited, INTERVIEW PROJECT captures the ups and downs of the human experience through the meaningful accounts of these people. In 2008, Lynch dispatched a small group of filmmakers, lovingly known as OEthe team?, to travel across the country and talk to people about their lives. The result was INTERVIEW PROJECT. The plan for INTERVIEW PROJECT was that there would be no still allow for serendipitous moments to occur. The team found the people in bars, restaurants, in front of their homes, along the highway, or in other OEordinary? places. The resulting interviews were then compiled into shorter segments that provide a true glimpse into the hearts and minds of these men and women who shared their stories willingly and with great passion. INTERVIEW PROJECT has debuted on davidlynch.com via a new component of the website. This component provides the framework for INTERVIEW PROJECT by showing each of the 3-5 minute episodes in an integrated environment. In this context, the series takes on new complexities as viewers are forced to reconsider these individuals in relation to one another, as well as to themselves. definitive plan. The filmmakers chose to approach the assignment in an unconventional way, letting a mixture of fate and their own judgment guide them. Pre-production was limited to outlining the basic questions that each person would be asked. The interviews themselves would be structured, yet would still allow for serendipitous moments to occur. The team found the people in bars, restaurants, in front of their homes, along the highway, or in other OEordinary? places. The resulting interviews were then compiled into shorter segments that provide a true glimpse into the hearts and minds of these men and women who shared their stories willingly and with great passion. INTERVIEW PROJECT has debuted on davidlynch.com via a new component of the website. This component provides the framework for INTERVIEW PROJECT by showing each of the 3-5 minute episodes in an integrated environment. In this context, the series takes on new complexities as viewers are forced to reconsider these individuals in relation to one another, as well as to themselves.
SCREENINGS TIMES AND DATES
CAFÉ DE LOS MAESTROS
Polonia cinema (Medium), 30 Nov, 19:30
CAPTURING REALITY
Polonia cinema (Main), 29 Nov, 20:15
CARL STØRMER AND HIS DETECTIVE CAMERA
Polonia cinema (Main), 04 Dec, 21:00
HERE IS WHAT IS
Polonia cinema (Medium), 04 Dec, 18:30
INTERVIEW PROJECT
Polonia cinema (Main), 30 Nov, 21:15
MARS UNDERGROUND, THE
Polonia cinema (Main), 28 Nov, 22:00
RECIPES FOR DISASTER
Polonia cinema (Medium), 01 Dec, 16:00
ROMAN POLANSKI: WANTED AND DESIRED
Polonia cinema (Medium), 29 Nov, 17:45
THEMERSON & THEMERSON
Polonia cinema (Main), 04 Dec, 21:00
TIME WARP
Polonia cinema (Main), 01 Dec, 20:00
U2 3D
Polonia cinema (Main), 28 Nov, 20:00
Polonia cinema (Main), 29 Nov, 22:30
Polonia cinema (Main), 30 Nov, 22:15
Polonia cinema (Main), 02 Dec, 22:15
Polonia cinema (Main), 05 Dec, 11:00
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