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Documentary Film festival kicks off on Friday

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Roberto Galea 13.05.2016 13:35
Friday sees the official opening of the 13th Docs Against Gravity Documentary Film festival.
Photo: Facebook.com/Docs Against Gravity
 Photo: Facebook.com/Docs Against Gravity

The event will be held in Warsaw, Wrocław, Bydgoszcz and Gdynia and selected films will also be shown in 20 other towns in Poland.

This year's edition has 130 films in store, some 50 accompanying events and over 100 artists visiting, many of whom will be presenting their new productions and also participate in meetings.

Among the premieres are works by the world's greatest documentary film makers, including Sergey Loznitsa with his “The Event” – a documentary on the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Soviet Union and the establishing of the Russian Federation, or Werner Herzog with his latest “Lo and Behold, Reveries of the Connected World”, in which he wonders whether it is at all possible to escape the surveillance of modern technologies.

The films are shown in 12 thematic sections, devoted to among others – human rights, refugees and immigrants, ecology, music and art, as well as economy.

Robert Gliński, Poland's film director is among the jury members, entrusted with the task of selecting the best film in the main competition. The festival winds down on 25 May. (rg)

Friday sees the official opening of the 13 edition of the Docs Against Gravity Documentary Film festival.

The event will be held in Warsaw, Wrocław, Bydgoszcz and Gdynia and selected films will also be shown in 20 other towns in Poland.

This year's edition has 130 films in store, some 50 accompanying events and over 100 artists visiting, many of whom will be presenting their new productions and also participate in meetings.

Among the premieres are works by the world's greatest documentary film makers, including Sergey Loznitsa with his “The Event” – a documentary on the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Soviet Union and the establishing of the Russian Federation, or Werner Herzog with his latest “Lo and Behold, Reveries of the Connected World”, in which he wonders whether it is at all possible to escape the surveillance of modern technologies.

The films are shown in 12 thematic sections, devoted to among others – human rights, refugees and immigrants, ecology, music and art, as well as economy.

Robert Gliński, Poland's film director is among the jury members, entrusted with the task of selecting the best film in the main competition. The festival winds down on 25 May. (rg)
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