Event

NO LONGER OUR HOMELAND + THE LAND OF THE HOMELESS

NO LONGER OUR HOMELAND [MATECZNIK]
2016, 92 min, Poland, Germany
Polish with English subtitles
Dir. KRISTOF GEREGA
This film tells the story of people who were forced by history to leave their homelands and had to find new homes in foreign lands. This is a trans-European story of displacement with various causes and consequences. The filmmaker is an emigrant from Poland who has lived in Germany since childhood. Following the stories of his aunts and his grandmother, they lead him to the massacres in the Ukraine in 1943-44. He discovers the secrets of people and places that some would prefer to not remember, some remember with longing, and for others their darkest days are brought to mind.

THE LAND OF THE HOMELESS [ZIEMIA BEZDOMNYCH]
2017, 50 min, Poland
Polish with English subtitles
Dir. MARCIN JANOS KRAWCZYK
Father Paleczny, a monk who devoted his life to helping the homeless, came up with an idea of building a huge yacht that would take him and his charges around the world. He died in 2009, but his last will remained valid so a group of his Warsaw friends took on the ambitious challenge of completing his boatbuilding project. It is a task that requires coordinating the work of many people and consequently it requires sobriety. One of the films characters is a welder named Slawek. Will he be able to master his alcoholism and finish the boat?