The best way to end the workweek is at the cinema!

Friday is the perfect day for a concert, a film, and a conversation — spend the end of the week with us!

Have you seen “In Hell with Ivo”? Tonight at 7:00 PM at Klub Bardzo Bardzo in Warsaw, you’ll have a unique chance to see its protagonist live in concert. Ivo Dimchev’s performance promotes his latest album, Songbook. In his performative concerts — balanced on the edge of stand-up and drag show — Dimchev’s hypnotic voice collides with provocative musical and visual staging, while questions of identity subtly intertwine with themes of faith, politics, and activism.

Earlier in the evening, at 6:00 PM at KINOMUZEUM, we invite you to the Warsaw premiere of “Child of Dust.” The protagonist of Weronika Mliczewska’s film was born in Vietnam during the war as the son of a Vietnamese woman and an American soldier. After the defeat of the U.S. Army, there was no place for people like him in the new communist society. The so-called “children of dust,” deprived of rights and family, were condemned to survive on the margins. Throughout his life, Sang was treated as a second-class citizen — without documents, education, or prospects. An unexpected chance from fate may finally change everything — but only if he leaves behind his entire life and starts anew, thousands of kilometers away.

After the screening, we invite you to a Q&A with the director.

At the same time, at 6:00 PM at Kino Muranów, you can see “Divia” — the first documentary devoted entirely to the impact of the war in Ukraine on the natural environment. Devoid of dialogue and built solely from monumental long takes, Dmytro Hreshko’s film alternates between breathtaking harmony of nature and the sensory assault of battlefield chaos.

The screening will be followed by another WATCH DOCS discussion:
“An Unnatural Disaster.”
We will ask whether international law can keep pace with the reality of today’s armed conflicts — and whether ecocide may one day be prosecuted on a par with genocide.

On Friday, we also invite you to a meeting with Scandinavian documentary cinema. At 6:00 PM at Kinoteka, the screening of “Fuck Off! Images of Finland” begins. In the early 1970s, at a time when rural Finland was emptying due to poverty and thousands were emigrating to Sweden in search of work, writer, filmmaker, politician, and producer Jörn Donner set out on a journey across Finland with a camera. He recorded conversations with hundreds of ordinary people, asking them one simple question: “What is it like to live in Finland?” He asked about everyday life, dreams, love, sex, politics, and the future. The result is one of the boldest and most uncompromising documentaries in the history of Finnish cinema.

Meanwhile, at 6:15 PM at Kinoteka, you’ll have a rare opportunity to see the earliest documentary works of one of the most acclaimed Swedish filmmakers of recent years — Ruben Östlund. Even here, you can already recognize his signature fascination with relationships, instincts, emotions, and details that may seem insignificant — but never truly are.

See you at the cinema!