THE JOURNEY

KANAL

DescriptionDescription Kanal is the central film in Wajda's Resistance trilogy, receiving the 1957 Cannes Special Jury Prize. Wajda's stark depiction of a tragic moment in Polish history, the film is set inlate September, 1944, just after the Warsaw Uprising mounted in August by Polish part sans against Nazi occupation forces. "Wajda's film depicts the uprising...

IT’S BETTER TO BE WEALTHY AND HEALTHY THAN POOR AND ILL (LEPSIE BYT BOHATY A ZDRAVY AKO CHUDOBNY A CHORY)

JAMES ELLROY

DescriptionDescription Crime writer James Ellroy has become one of the major literary voices of Los Angeles in recent years. Austrian filmmaker Reinhard Jud follows the author of "the best crime thrillers in the world" through his native LA, exploring the cityscape which inspires his novels. More than conventional portraiture, this engrossing documentary is the result...

INTO THE WEST

DescriptionDescription The appeal of legends which invent worlds existing beyond our own mundane realm is universal. Directed by Mike Newell of Enchanted April, and written by Jim Sheridan, who put Ireland on the cinema map with his Oscar-winning My Left Foot, Into the West is a modern fable which begins with the legend on just...

IT WAS A WONDERFUL LIFE

THE INLAND SEA

DescriptionDescription Based on the renowned Donald Richie book of the same name. Lucille Carra's The Inland Sea is a wonderfully vivid recreation of Richie's journey thirty years ago through the Inland Sea region of Japan. where he was intent on experiencing the disappearing traditions of old Japan Gracefully directed by Carra. The Inland Sea adapts...

INNOCENCE UNPROTECTED (NEVINOST BEZ ZASTITE)

DescriptionDescription The Sunday Telegraph called lnnlicence Unprotected "a hilarious piece of cinematic collage that manages to be an affectionate spoofing of old movies, political history of Yugoslavia and satirical comment on the country's new muscleman and escapologist, President Tito." "In 1942, a professional strong man named Aleksic intermingled documentary footage of his own acrobatic feats...

HOW ELSE AM I SUPPOSED TO KNOW I’M STILL ALIVE

THE HUMMINGBIRD TREE

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