The Illumination is a non-competitive section of the Krakow Film Festival:

“The protagonist of possibly the best picture by Krzysztof Zanussi, awarded with the Grand Prix in Locarno in 1973 keeps searching for the truth about himself and the world with a desire to find enlightenment. Such illumination is also required by the characters of the films screened and awarded at prestigious film festivals as well as their authors in order to create outstanding works of art not lending themselves well to simple interpretation. (…)" write the curators

Details and screening schedule: krakowfilmfestival.pl/en/online-cinema/films/ilumination

SOLARIS MON AMOUR is the latest production of the Visual Narrative Laboratory (vnLab) operating at the Lodz Film School.

SOLARIS MON AMOUR (2023, ’47)
direction: Kuba Mikurda
editing: Laura Pawela
music and sound: Marcin Lenarczyk
creative producers: Dagna Kidoń, Stanisław Liguziński, Michał Matuszewski
animation: Kacper Zamarło, Marcin Podolec
colour corection: Marcin Kuszmar
assistant editor: Marcin Wojciechowski
graphic designer: Beata Danowska
poster: Przemysław Dębowski
production: Lodz Film School / vnLab, Educational Film Studio, Adam Mickiewicz Institute

Synopsis:
An extraordinary found footage documentary inspired by Stanisław Lem’s „Solaris”. A trance-like, personal story about loss, mourning & memory. The film consists of excerpts from 70 educational films and radio adaptations of „Solaris” from the 1960s.

Trailer: vimeo.com

Kuba Mikurda's film premiered at the 20th Millennium Docs Against Gravity (Strength of Words section), and recently inaugurated the screenings of the Film School Cinema in the series "75 films for 75 years of the School": filmschool.lodz.pl/en/news