The Best Films In The World

We have decided to create a new program block that includes the latest documentary films which already stole the hearts of jurors at major film festivals. These are top-notch productions, ambitious, but also very pleasing to the eyes and ears. It is also cinema that is simply worth watching – if only to see whether the films awarded at IDFA, Berlinale, and Sundance are actually worthy of the prizes, or are perhaps over-hyped. This is also a great opportunity to watch them in our city, without taking a trip to Germany or the USA.


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Filmy poprzednich edycji

  • Cobain: Montage of Heck, 144'

    Production: USA 2015

    Hailed as one of the most innovative and intimate documentaries of all time. Experience Kurt Cobain like never before in the only ever fully authorised portrait of the famed music icon.

    Academy Award nominated filmmaker Brett Morgen expertly blends Cobain’s personal archive of art, music, never seen before films, animation and revelatory interviews from his family and closest friends.

    Wildly creative and highly acclaimed, follow Kurt from his earliest years in this visceral and detailed cinematic insight of an artist at odds with his surroundings.

    Fans and those of the Nirvana generation will learn things about Cobain they never knew while those who have recently discovered the man and his music will know what makes him the lasting icon that he still is today.

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  • Naked Island, 75'

    Production: HR 2014

    Some sixty years ago, a man went missing for four years. He returned a changed man carrying along a painful secret. He later built his family’s life around this unspoken of secret. Talking about the past was forbidden in the family. It was his granddaughter, also the director of this film, who first started asking questions, wanting to find out what lay hidden beneath her grandfather’s scar covered body ever since childhood. However, he died without revealing the entire story to anyone.

    “Naked Island” is an investigation built upon the ruins of the past, a mosaic made of clues – family photos and intimate testimonies of a tight-knit group of people who were brought together by the same place, an island of broken souls, and consequences that this place left on three generations.

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  • Taxi Teheran, 82'

    Production: IRN 2015

    A regular day in Tehran. The congested traffic is spotted with yellow taxi cabs. One of the cars roaming around this gigantic metropolis is different: it has an industrial camera attached to its dashboard, and its driver is Jafar Panahi, the director of the film. His clients include simple people and intellectuals, friends and perfect strangers, random individuals in need and family members with an appointment for the ride.

    “Taxi” is a beautiful audiovisual postcard from Iran, in which a documentary view of reality surrounding the director replaces exotic views. It is one of the reasons for which this year's Berlinale jury were enamoured of the film and awarded it with the main prize – the Golden Bear, and so were the journalists, who gave it the FIPRESCI prize.

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