Special Programs in Focus

• Sergei PARAJANOV
• Georgia
• 1985
• 20min

Documentary short film by Sergei Paradjanov, representing the director′s personal view on the Heritage of the Georgian autodidact primitivism painter of the 19th century, one of th...

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• Mikhail VARTANOV,Sergei PARAJANOV
• Armenia,United States
• 1992
• 55min

Parajanov’s last days recorded by his old friend and filmmaker Mikhail Vartanov. It is a valuable opportunity to see the footage from Parajanov’s unfinished last work

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• Rezo CHKHEIDZE
• Georgia
• 1964
• 88min

Director Rezo Chkheidze, decided to restore the film in colors because it was originally projected a color film but could not afford to cover the expenses. wa...

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• Kenji KAMIYAMA
• Japan
• 2011
• 108min

Based on the comic by the Shirow Masamunes, this futuristic police thriller animation directed by Kamiyama Kenji is a philosophical and entertaining master piece. The new version i...

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• Dorota K?DZIERZAWSKA
• Poland
• 1994
• 63min

A wonderful example of a film about children that avoids traditional pitfalls of the genre, e.g. oversimplifying the characters or having them deliver messages in discrepancy with ...

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• Andrzej WAJDA
• Poland
• 1974
• 179min

Wajda’s film is first and foremost a multilayered, Dickensian portrait of Poland at a specific time and place. The city of Lodz at the end of the 19th century was a European centre...

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• Wojciech Jerzy HAS
• Poland
• 1964
• 185min

A long trip that will lead you to unexpected places, even if you have seen the film before. Sometimes called ‘Poland’s greatest cult film’, this is a classic example of a frame sto...

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• Jerzy KAWALEROWICZ
• Poland
• 1959
• 93min

The premise is Hitchcockian ? a train full of strangers forced to spend the night in a confined space, with a suggestion that among the passengers there might be a killer. It is fa...

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• Krzysztof ZANUSSI
• Poland,United States,Germany
• 1984
• 105min

Krzysztof Zanussi’s strong point has always been the ability of setting up situations in which characters find themselves in a conundrum without an obvious way out. Zanussi’s class...

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• Jerzy SKOLIMOWSKI
• Poland
• 1964
• 71min

The most fascinating element of this film ? Skolimowski’s feature debut ? is the deliberate blurring of the line between the filmmaker and the protagonist. Skolimowski is the direc...