Start your week with WATCH DOCS!

We begin Monday with the masterclass by Kamal Aljafari, who last night accepted, on behalf of Palestinian documentary filmmakers, the Marek Nowicki Award — an honor recognizing an exceptional contribution to portraying human rights through film.

Through his films, installations, and archival explorations, Aljafari symbolically reclaims the collective memory of his people, appropriated first by colonial and later by occupying forces.

Join us — 6:00 PM at KINOMUZEUM.

Also on Monday, we invite you to the screening of “The Longer You Bleed” (6:15 PM, Kino Muranów). As program director Konrad Wirkowski writes:
“The film by a young German director focuses on people who physically escaped the war but cannot free themselves from it internally. What psychological mechanism traps us in doomscrolling — returning again and again to images we’ve already seen thousands of times?”

Following the screening, join us for another WATCH DOCS debate:
“‘Go Back Where You Came From!’ How Did Russia Manage to Change Our Perception of Refugees from Ukraine?”
A large part of Polish society believes that refugees from Ukraine receive privileges unavailable to Polish citizens. Facts — reports, economic data, employment statistics — rarely break through the wave of false narratives fueling hostility and fear.

After Monday comes Tuesday…

… and on Tuesday we offer two Polish documentaries with filmmaker Q&As, plus a debate on therapy and inherited trauma.

At 6:00 PM in KINOMUZEUM, after the screening of “December,” director Grzegorz Paprzycki will meet with the audience.
“His new film is an uncompromising socio-political manifesto. December is a special month for Poles — theoretically devoted to reflection, family, and religion; practically reduced to a consumerist frenzy accompanied by carols. How do we reconcile the idea of the Christmas Eve supper, where a seat is always reserved for someone in need, with the hostility and contempt faced by migrants in our country?”

Later, at 8:30 PM (also in KINOMUZEUM), we invite you to the screening of the latest film by Tadeusz Chudy — "On My Own Terms". The director, present at the screening,
“observes with tender attention the coming-of-age of an unusual sibling pair. Paweł, tall and strong like his Nigerian father, dreams of boxing; Julka is an incorrigible rebel searching for her place in the world. They live in a children’s home, but approaching adulthood forces them to look for new paths.”

The Tuesday debate “Generation to Generation: Toxic Parents, Lost Children” will follow the Polish premiere of “If I Die Today”.
We will ask whether it is possible to break the chain of toxic emotions passed down across generations — without breaking family bonds.

The screening of “If I Die Today” begins at 6:00 PM at Kino Muranów:
“For six years, Camilla Arlien observes a young rapper who, after leaving prison, desperately tries to keep his life on track. Jannik was incarcerated as a teenager for attempted murder. In prison he finished school, and there he learned to channel his rage into brutally honest lyrics. Freedom is for him both an opportunity and a threat.”

See you at the cinema!