Piotr Jaxa - wystawa

Piotr Jaxa Cinematographers

Pisklaki (The Fledglings) TRAILER

Director: Lidia Duda 2022 Poland 80 minutes All Ages "Perpetually sends arrows to your hearts” (The Guardian) Zosia, Oskar, and Kinga are seven-year-olds who are moving away from their parents for the first time to attend boarding school for the blind and vision-impaired. Lidia Duda’s strategy is simply to keep the camera on the children, nothing more and nothing less—they don’t need to be explained or patronised. As she says, “I believe in small, tiny worlds, because only by changing them, people can change the macro-world.” The result is quite extraordinary. Zosia is relentlessly talkative, Oskar works out his insecurities on the piano, and Kinga is a solid, supportive presence. There is true beauty in this film. “profoundly touching … a breathtaking and deeply affecting documentary. The formative phase in children’s lives is rarely observed with such closeness and grace.” (The Guardian) “a truly extraordinary and well-constructed documentary… There is beauty in simplicity, and Duda accomplishes so much in a relatively short span of time, asserting her vision while finding the space to provide one of the most tender and insightful works of representation in recent years, handcrafting a soft-hearted, deeply meaningful view on disability, and offering a marginalized group a platform to have their voices heard.” (International Cinephile Society)

Forest / AFF 2024 Teaser

Pădurea - LAS / AFF 2024 Teaser Lidia Duda | Czech Republic, Poland | 2024 | 84' 594_2024 Central&Eastern Europe , Poland on CINE-spotlight 2024 Synopsis_En: Asia and Marek escaped to their paradise right after graduation – they bought an old house right on Poland’s eastern border in the Białowieża Forest. This is where their three children were born: Marysia, Ignacy and Franek. The children live their lives absorbed in nature and the forest is their second home – tamed and fear-free. One day, though, their forest changes. Strangers, Others emerge; freezing, often sick, hungry, lost... Ref­ugees, unwanted both in­­­ Poland and in Belarus.