Event

Shavings +Wilczur + Brothers

SHAVINGS (WIÓRY)
ANIMATION
2016, 6 min, Poland
Polish with English subtitles
dir. AGATA MIANOWSKA

This animated short tells the story of a lonely lumberjack who tries to cope with breaking up with his beloved girlfriend. An unexpected meeting in the woods turns his life upside down.

WILCZUR
DOCUMENTARY
2015, 13 min, Poland
Polish with English subtitles
dir. MATEUSZ KUDLA

Born in Lvov, Jacek Wilczur in the age of 16 became the youngest executioner of Nazi criminals and informers sentenced to death by the Polish underground courts in WWII. Sometimes he was even ordered to execute his own Home Army co-fighters. After the war his comprehensive knowledge was used in the works of Commission for the Prosecution of Hitler's Crimes in Poland. He searched the underground town build by Germans in the Owl Mountains in Lower Silesia, sought hidden archives and secret Nazi cubbyholes. The 90 year-old Wilczur has never before told his story.

Brothers (Bracia)
DOCUMENTARY
2015, 70 min, Poland
Polish, Russian with English subtitles
dir. WOJCIECH STARO

Two brothers who managed to escape from a Soviet forced labor camp, but are unable to escape from each other. One of them is an artist and a dreamer, the other, a pragmatic scientist. Fate is now forcing them to start their lives once more.