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Let's Cry + We the People

2019, 25 min, Poland
Polish with English subtitles
dir. TADEUSZ KABICZ

Maciek, a boy from the country, starts an investigation into his sisters disappearance despite the objections of everyone he knows. He contacts a controversial TV program, in which a charismatic reporter solves the problems of ordinary people, and soon the famous reporter comes to the village, followed by her crew.

2018, 58 min, Poland
Polish with English subtitles
dir. EWA EWART

This 60-minute documentary explores the Western perspective on the last 30 years of Polish history since the momentous partially free parliamentary elections and examines the role that the United States played in the transformation process in Poland. The elections on 4 June 1989 not only caused the collapse of communism in Poland but also triggered a chain reaction of events throughout the region from the fall of the Berlin Wall to the collapse of the Soviet Union.
The film includes unknown facts of Lech Wasas famous speech to the US Congress in 1989, as well as never shown archive material.

60-minutowy film dokumentalny historia 30 lat polskiej transformacji, zapoczatkowanej czesciowo wolnymi wyborami do parlamentu, opowiedziana z zachodniej perspektywy, ze szczegolnym uwzglednieniem roli, jaka Stany Zjednoczone odegraly w tym procesie. Historyczne wybory 4 czerwca 1989 roku doprowadzily do upadku komunizmu nie tylko w Polsce, ale takze wywolaly reakcje domina wydarzen w calym regionie od obalenia Muru Berlinskiego po rozpad Zwiazku Radzieckiego.
Film ujawnia nieznane kulisy slynnego wystapienia Lecha Walesy w Kongresie USA w 1989 r oraz unikalny, zapominany i nie pokazywany wczesniej material archiwalny.