This year’s IDFA runs from 12 to 22, November.

The programme includes student films and full-length films featuring our students and alumni.

* MIX, dir. Klaudia Szott, the film is in the Best of Fests section

Film synopsis: During the Cold War, the Lodz Film School in Poland opened its doors to young people from the Global South. The films these students made are preserved in the archive. Sylwia Achu, the daughter of a Polish mother and Nigerian father, finds traces of her identity there, in the footage of other people’s lives from a different time.

Credits:
direction, sound on the set: Klaudia Szott
screenplay: Klaudia Szott, Teresa Fazan
cinematography: Augustyn Bardian
editing: Marta Grzegorek
sound: Artur Walaszczyk
production management: Zofia Rodak
artistic supervision: Maciej Drygas, Jacek Petrycki, Marta Prus, Rafał Listopad, Bartosz Pietras
narrator: Sylwia Achu

Film at the IDFA website: festival.idfa.nl/en/film/c888ca4e-ccb0-498e-b89f-33486abaebce/mix

* MENTOR, dir. Krzysztof Tomaszewski, film is the Luminous section

Film synopsis: Mentor is a mysterious boxer who trains in Warsaw’s Praga district. A group of his friends from the sports club speculate about who he really is, while their shared ideas about his life come up against reality.

Credits:
direction, editing: Krzysztof Tomaszewski
cinematography: Stefan Żółtowski
sound: Michał Bielecki
production management: Julia Sowa
artistic supervision: Martin Rath

Film at the IDFA website: festival.idfa.nl/en/film/3d6931ad-a8da-462e-a1d4-c9f803c9b754/mentor

Besides:

* "Signed" Section: LETTERS by Andrea Kutsila, who participated in the "Solidarity with Belarus" internship programme at the Lodz Film School from 2021 to 2022, during which time he began developing his film project. Cinematography was co-handled by Wojciech Węglarz (a cinematography student); the film was edited by Piotr Ogiński (an editing graduate), and animation was created by Natalia Spychała (a graduate in animated film and special effects). The film’s Polish producer is Mirosław Dembiński, a lecturer at the school.

Film at the IDFA website: festival.idfa.nl/en/film/21e30d64-ba84-4ca1-ae9e-eac685256e76/letters-from-the-silenced-coun...

* In the "Signed" section: CLOSURE, directed by Michał Marczak; the sound designer and co-producer is Katarzyna Szczerba, a doctoral student and Head of the Sound Directing Department at our School. The film was edited by Anna Garncarczyk, our editing graduate.

Film at the IDFA website: festival.idfa.nl/en/film/4bc63888-d4b8-4247-aeb1-4bcaf0307bd1/closure

* Dead Angle: Common Ground Section: THE BALCONY MOVIE, directed and shot by Paweł Łoziński—a directing graduate—and edited by the duo Piasek & Wójcik—our editing graduates.

Film at the IDFA website: festival.idfa.nl/en/film/2c22d2a9-4f7f-4a1a-a6e5-7882fc40ef69/the-balcony-movie

We congratulate the filmmakers on their films being selected for the festival.

photos: MENTOR / MIX