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UK PremiereKrzysztof Kadłubowski | Poland | 7 mins
On April 10th, 2011, the first unsettling news about the air catastrophe concerning the government plane Tu-154 breaks across Poland. On board the plane there was the President of the Polish Republic Lech Kaczyński, his wife Maria, government representatives, state institutions officials, members of parliament, church officials, commanders and different divisions of the Polish Army. Tension builds. It becomes clear that all the passengers and crew are dead. The film is a record of those days in April.
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The Last Day of Summer
UK PremierePiotr Stasik | Poland | 29 mins
Piotr Stasik’s film portrays contemporary Russia through the eyes of young students at a cadet school in Penza 700 km from Moscow. Following their daily routine we observe how deeply the school influences the children's lives, how their personalities change, how they hope and they dream, how slowly they enter the world of the adults and say farewell to the bliss of childhood.
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Vakha and Magomed
UK PremiereMarta Prus | Poland | 12 mins
A short documentary which shows the everyday struggles of two immigrants from Chechenya - Vakha and his son Magomed. The harsh reality of the newly arrived immigrant is obvious, but clearer still is the bond of true affection and care between father and son that deepens despite the circumstances. An intimate and endearing snapshot of two lives and the love between a father and a son.
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Tonia and Her Children
UK PremiereMarcel Lozinski | Poland | 57 mins
11-year-old Werka and her 9-year-old brother Marcel wind up at the front door of a children’s home in Wrocław. Asked who they are, Werka replies, “We are children of communists.” In return the teacher yells, ”Why do they only send us Judeo-communists?!!!” It is 1949. Werka and Marcel’s mother, a pre-war communist, is arrested and charged with collaborating with American intelligence. She will do five and half years. Her children will spend these years in children’s homes.
A film about a brother and a sister marked by the ideological choices of their parents.
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