Poland in Greece

The polish films will be screened on September 14 at 8.30 pm at the summer cinema "Alexandros" and at 9.00 pm at the Municipal Conservatory in Drama, as well as online on the festival platform. Details at: https://www.dramafilmfestival.gr/

The Visit, dir. Mateusz Jarmulski, year of production 2021, duration 7 minutes. 20 sec.

African tropical forest. A dark figure escapes through the thicket. The hunters’ shouting grows. The chimpanzee’s eyes shine on her dark face. She is breathing heavily, flees through the jungle. The frightened animal reaches a beautiful colonial villa and enters inside. Leaving her natural environment will stand before an important choice. “The visit” is a film that asks the question of where humanity begins.

Wall unit, dir. Joanna Polak, produced in 2021, duration 10 minutes.

The film "Wall unit" is another puppet animation by Joanna Polak. After the success of "Wełniaki" (2018), the author decided to radically change the soft, felt, full of colors of the surreal world, in favor of a hyper-realistic gray and dirty realism, a typical Eastern European block of flats. The characters, devoted with great attention to detail, tell the viewer their seemingly down-to-earth story in which tragicomism is mixed with the viewer's melancholy reverie over perhaps their own fate. This almost ten-minute-long animation should be seen by every 40-year-old experiencing a midlife crisis. The animated sarcastic story in a humorous but brutal way exposes the dissonance between our desires and habits, which most often lead a person eager for change and new experiences to the starting point.

Izabela Plucińska

Izabela Plucińska was born in Koszalin in Poland. She studied at Lódz Art School and Film School until the year 2000 and took up studies at “Konrad Wolf” Film School in Potsdam- Babelsberg, Germany in 2003. In 2004 she finished studying as well as her graduate film project “Jam Session”. It was accepted for the short film competition at the Berlin Film festival 2005, where it won her a Silver Bear. In 2006 she’s made “Breakfast” for Polish television. She’s directed and produced “7 More Minutes” and “Marathon”, which was her first collaboration with Spela Cadez. Together with her production-collaborator at the Babelsberg-Filmschool Jamila Wenske, she founded her own production company “Clay Traces” in Berlin. Her last clay film “Josette and her Daddy” is an adaptation by E. Ionesco, which was her work with Agata Rojek and Yann Jouette. Right now she is working in Berlin with Agata Rojek, Robert Kern and Christina Haupt on her new project to date “Sex für Lustlose”.