Programme sections/Full Length Films

18^th November (Friday)

Cinema Rotunda
ul. Oleandry 1, 30-060 Kraków

Large Screening Room

7 p.m.

Polish preview of film „The Rabbi’s Cat"

LE CHAT DU RABBIN/KOT RABINA/THE RABBI’S CAT, reż./dir.: Joann Sfar, Antoine Delesvaux, muz./music: Olivier Daviaud, Francja, Belgia/France, Belgium, 2011, 86’

Algeria, 1920. Rabbi Sfar lives with an adolescent daughter, Zlabya, a noisy parrot and a playful cat, which one day swallows the bird and gains the ability to speak. The rabbi wants to get rid of the cat. However, the cat, deeply in love with his young female teacher, is ready to do everything just to stay with her. The film is an animated version of a comic book made by Joann Sfar, published under the same title.

19^th November (Saturday)

Cinema Rotunda
ul. Oleandry 1, 30-060 Kraków

Large Screening Room

5 p.m.

18th anniversary of the ETIUDA competition – screening of Grand Prix winners

Leszek Dawid

Special Guest – Leszek Dawid

KI/MY NAME IS KI, reż./dir.: Leszek Dawid, wyst./cast: Roma Gąsiorowska, Kamil Malecki, Krzysztof Ogłoza, Sylwia Juszczak, Polska/Poland, 2011, 93’

Ki (Roma Gąsiorowska) is a young mother who definitely does not fit the traditional model of the Polish mother. Ki fights with the social stereotype and the attempts to burden her with all duties connected with this role. Ki is not

a likable person; she is arrogant, insolent, ruthless, but we admire her for her courage to fight for self-fulfillment and the belief that the baby is happier when his/her mother is fulfilled.

20^th November (Sunday)

Cinema Rotunda
ul. Oleandry 1, 30-060 Kraków

Large Screening Room

7 p.m.

18^th anniversary of ETIUDA competition – screening of Grand Prix winners

Janez Lapajne

Special Guest – Janez Lapajne

OSEBNA PRTLJAGA/PERSONAL BAGGAGE reż./dir.: Janez Lapajne, wyst./cast: Nataša Barbara Gračner, Tjaša Železnik, Boris Cavazza, Słowenia/Slovenia, 2009, 124’

Vid, a young and talented singer, falls in love with Nina, having no idea what influence his new girlfriend will have on his family. A Slovenian forest was the perfect setting for the Lapajne’s thriller. A contemporary Slovenian masterpiece, carefully structured film with no flaws. Perfectly portrayed characters, including supporting ones, who make up a kind of choir, carry a luggage, which becomes the most devastating burden.

21^stNovember (Monday)

Cinema Rotunda
ul. Oleandry 1, 30-060 Kraków

Large Screening Room

9 p.m.

18th anniversary of ETIUDA Competition – screening of Grand Prix winners

Marcin Wrona

Special Guest – Marcin Wrona

CHRZEST/THE CHRISTENING, reż./dir.: Marcin Wrona, zdj./phot.: Paweł Flis, muz./music: Marcin Macuk, wyst./cast: Wojciech Zieliński, Tomasz Schuchardt, Natalia Rybicka, Adam Woronowicz, Polska/Poland, 2010, 85’

Michał, who lives in a small town, belongs to a gang dealing with money-laundering and robbery. In the gang he has a friend, Janek. One day their paths diverge; Janek joins the army, while Michał leaves for Warsaw, where he meets a wonderful woman and begins a new chapter in his life. Unfortunately, his past haunts his present. One day the old friend turns up at his door…

23^rdNovember (Wednesday)

Cinema Rotunda
ul. Oleandry 1, 30-060 Kraków

Large Screening Room

10 a.m.

Anima for children

GADKIJ UTJONOK/THE UGLY DUCKLING, reż./dir.: Garry Bardin, muz./music: Piotr Czajkowski, orkiestra/orchestra: Rosyjska Narodowa Orkiestra Filharmoniczna/National Filharmonic Orchestra of Russia, Niemcy, Rosja/Germany, Russia, 2011, 75’

The latest Garry Bardini’s animated film based on the J. H. Andersen’s world-famous fairy tale published under the same title. A strange duck hatches out of an unusual egg in the yard. All other fowls find her ugly… The main character is made of Plasticine, the director’s favorite material, while other animals (geese, hens and turkey cocks) are made of feathers. During the 6-year work on the film, six bags of feathers and twelve kilos of Plasticine were used.

Muzeum Narodowe - Sala u Samurajów

Al. 3 Maja 1, 30-062 Kraków

8 p.m.

SKY SONG, reż./dir.:Mati Kütt, muz./music: Tõnu Kõrvits, animacja lalkowa/puppet animation, Estonia, 2010, 45’

This is an ode for all those who enjoy flying. Is it possible to get to the moon within no more than one breath? Yes, it is, if you are determined to fly and well-prepared, like Rain, a postman. Sky Song is full of experiments with the form and material.