Friday, May 10 | 8:30 p.m. | Kino Muza 1
Opening of the festival. Meeting with the director of the film “FOREST” Lidia Duda and the protagonists: Asia, Marek, Marysia, Ignacy and Frank
after the screening of the film "Forest", dir. Lidia Duda
Fresh university graduates, Asia and Marek bought an old house near the eastern border of Poland, in the Białowieża Forest, the oldest forest in Europe. This is their paradise – a place where their children can grow up safely, away from the problems of today’s world. Soon after their move, a refugee crisis broke out on the Polish-Belarusian border, which changed the surrounding forests irrevocably. We will talk about sensitivity to others' fate, politics that unexpectedly knocks on one's door, the need for help and the conscious upbringing of children after the screening of the film with the director Lidia Duda, as well as with the protagonists: Asia, Marek, Marysia, Ignacy and Franek.
Meeting hosts:
Dorota Reksińska - culture and film expert, graduate of Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. She has been active in the film industry since 2009. She has co-created numerous film festivals in Poland, is involved in film education and conducts meetings with filmmakers and audiences. Since June 2017, she has been associated with Estrada Poznańska and Muza Cinema in Poznań. Her main area of work is cinema programming, production of film events, as well as coordination of image and promotional activities. In her private life, she dives and works as a volunteer at a shelter, where she adopted her dog Klaps from.
Joanna Piotrowiak – a graduate of the film studies specialisation at the Polish philology department of Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. Since 2013 she has been working at Kino Muza in Poznań, where she has served as manager since October 2017. Member of the board of the Association of Studio Cinemas, acting on behalf of more than 200 Polish art-house and local cinemas. Co-founder of the cinema VOD platform mojeekino.pl and the Film Education Forum. Interests: #classical archery and #transactional analysis.
