Blok shortów: Showcase 3: Family Matters

  • Best Regards

    Best Regards

    Best Regards

    reż. Katarzyna Romatowska
    Poland / 2026 / 2′

    A woman working late in an empty office is repeatedly plunged into darkness when the motion sensor fails to detect her, turning an ordinary night at work into an absurd struggle for visibility.

    04.10.2026
    16:00
    Kinomuzeum
    Bilety

    Katarzyna Romatowska

    Katarzyna Romatowska is a filmmaker and photographer. Originally from Białystok, she is based in Copenhagen. She is a graduate of Wajda School, Copenhagen Business School, and Bocconi University. She feels most at home where it’s not entirely clear what’s going on.

    Reżyseria: Katarzyna Romatowska

  • Horizon

    Horizon

    Horizon

    reż. Małgorzata Mazur
    Poland / 2025 / 17′

    Nine-year-old Zuzia, together with the director, sets off on a journey through time, passing through various female archetypes, family weddings and divorces, until they reach the place where the director’s grandmother grew up. It is now an empty orchard, and Zuzia is now 18 years old and the first person in the family who does not want a church wedding.

    In a small village in eastern Poland, right next to Zuzia’s family home, stands the cottage of the naturalist and filmmaker Włodzimierz Puchalski. In the 1970s, he filmed Zuzia’s grand-parents’ wedding, just as he used to film birds. The 35mm film, which he gave to the newlyweds as a gift, lay at the back of a wardrobe for 40 years, until nine years ago, when it came into the director’s possession. No one had ever seen this footage before.

    Nine-year-old Zuzia, together with the director, sets off on a journey through time, passing through various female archetypes, family weddings and divorces, until they reach the place where the director’s grandmother grew up. It is now an empty orchard, and Zuzia is now 18 years old and the first person in the family who does not want a church wedding.

    04.10.2026
    16:00
    Kinomuzeum
    Bilety

    Małgorzata Mazur

    Małgorzata Mazur is a director and director of photography, she co-create experimental and documentary films that have been shown at numerous festivals and exhibitions. She co-runs „Centrum Centrum” a cultural institution located in the allotment in Szczecin. She work in Film Department on Academy of Art In Szczecin. She graduated Film Image and Photography on the Radio and Television Department of the University of Silesia In Katowice.

    Wybrane festiwale i nagrody

    International Marienbad Film Festival 2026, Tramway Film Festival 2025

    Reżyseria: Małgorzata Mazur

  • Twin Days

    Twin Days

    Twin Days

    reż. Sara Szymańska, Nadia Szymańska
    Poland / 2026 / 28′

    Twin sisters drive cross-country to Ohio’s Twinsburg Festival — a journey that leads them to rediscover themselves beyond their shared identity.

    Twin sisters drive cross-country from Los Angeles to Ohio for Twinsburg Festival, the world’s largest gathering of twins. Along the way, they confront their similarities and differences, navigating the fragile balance between closeness and individuality. In Twinsburg, as they meet other twins and hear their stories, the sisters begin to see their bond in a new light. What starts as a simple journey becomes a search for who they are — both together and apart.

    04.10.2026
    16:00
    Kinomuzeum
    Bilety

    Sara i Nadia Szymańska

    Twin sisters Nadia and Sara Szymanska are Paris-based filmmakers and Film School in Lodz graduates. Their work explores the complexities of connection, with films shown at MoMA, Clermont-Ferrand and Cracow.

    Wybrane festiwale i nagrody

    Millenium Docs Against Gravity 2026

    Reżyseria: Sara Szymańska, Nadia Szymańska

    Język: Polish, English

    Napisy: Polish, English

  • The Tongue That Grasps

    The Tongue That Grasps

    The Tongue That Grasps

    reż. Marta Hryniuk, Nick Thomas
    Netherlands / 2025 / 04’50”

    The tongue that grasps embodies and imagines the psychedelic experiences of early parenthood and early childhood, exploring the entanglements of the cosmic and the domestic in the context of the birth and growth of the artists’ first child.

    The work emerges from broader research into 1960s and 70s counterculture, which represents the (unfulfilled) promise of a way of living otherwise.

    04.10.2026
    16:00
    Kinomuzeum
    Bilety

    Marta Hryniuk and Nick Thomas

    Marta Hryniuk and Nick Thomas are artists and filmmakers based between Rotterdam and Warsaw. Their practice spans documentary, moving image and installation, exploring non-didactic forms and radical audiovisual practices. They are founding members of WET, a production and distribution cooperative. Their feature Weightless premiered at IFFR, while Forces is part of the Eye Experimental collection. Hryniuk also co-directs Field Recordings.

    Reżyseria: Marta Hryniuk, Nick Thomas

  • A Good Heart

    A Good Heart

    A Good Heart

    reż. Aleksandra Kubisa
    Poland / 2025 / 4′

    A warm and witty animated documentary about a grandmother’s wisdom that doesn’t always keep up with a changing world.

    A grandmother shares her advice on life with her granddaughter, though her wisdom is not always easy to apply in the modern world. Her advice creates an amusing contrast with the reality of a contemporary young woman, while the narration is cleverly woven together with inventive animation. A warm and witty animated documentary about a grandmother’s wisdom that doesn’t always keep up with a changing world.

    04.10.2026
    16:00
    Kinomuzeum
    Bilety

    Aleksandra Kubisa

    Aleksandra Kubisa is an animation and documentary filmmaker and poster artist. She graduated from the Krzysztof Kieślowski Film School and is currently studying Animation at the Łódź Film School. Her work combines documentary and animation, focusing on personal stories and human relationships. Her animated documentary Good Heart premiered at the Warsaw Film Festival. At Millennium Docs Against Gravity, she received the Andrzej Wajda Film Centre Award for her project Almost Home.

    Reżyseria: Aleksandra Kubisa

    Język: Polish

    Napisy: English

  • Can you hear me?

    Can you hear me?

    Can you hear me?

    reż. Anastazja Naumenko
    Poland / 2025 / 15’01”

    Nastia’s Zoom lessons on using a laptop for her mom are disrupted by unstable internet—and resurfacing family traumas.

    Nastia, who has lived abroad for many years, begins to teach her mother how to use Internet services. Different perceptions of technology become the starting point for exposing intergenerational conflicts and long-forgotten family threads. The complicated navigation of social media reflects a no less difficult path to communicate. While learning, the heroines learn a lot about each other, but will the intimacy regained by Zoom be defining for the further relationship between the two adult women?

    04.10.2026
    16:00
    Kinomuzeum
    Bilety

    Anastazja Naumenko

    Anastazja Naumenko is a visual artist and director, whose main investigation focuses on intertwinement and co-relations between real and fictional worlds, hence most of their works are a mix of documentary and fiction. They are currently studying at die Angewandte in Vienna.

    Wybrane festiwale i nagrody

    Millennium Docs Against Gravity Film Festival, FIDMarseille, Sarajevo Film Festival

    Reżyseria: Anastazja Naumenko

    Język: Russian

    Napisy: Polish, English