Event

ZHALANASH EMPTY SHORE + A SKY WITHOUT STARS

ZHALANASH EMPTY SHORE
ZALANASZ PUSTY BRZEG
2017, 40 min, Poland
Polish with English subtitles
dir. MARCIN SAUTER
Eponymous Zhalanash is a port city over the Aral Sea. This place between a great water and a vast desert which used to be a prosperous link of the Soviet economy is just a shadow of its former glory today. In Marcin Sauters film, Zhalanash is not only about evocative landscape, but, above all, about the fates of people who invested their hopes and expectations into the place between the sea and the desert and now ponder over their solitude among the wrecks of ships and port cranes.

A SKY WITHOUT STARS
NIEBO BEZ GWIAZD

2018, 52 min, Poland
Polish with English subtitles
dir. KATARZYNA DABKOWSKA-KULACZ
It is the moving story of the love between a father suffering from a disease which means he has only a few percent of his eyesight left, and will possibly lose his sight altogether, and his seven-year-old son, who with time is able to help him more and more and become his guide - and his eyes. What his son sees for the first time, his father is most likely seeing for the last time. Their unique relationship can be described by paraphrasing the well-known saying: love is invisible to the eye.