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6 Animated Shorts to See at New York City’s Animation First Festival 2020

Family memories, heart-wrenching puppets, thrilling technological advancements and a lot of dark, delicious humor from the world’s finest animators, including two Oscars nominees

February 2nd, 2020|Country: Argentina, Canada, Czech Republic, France, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Tajikistan|

A Shattered Polish Factory Is Resurrected in a Multidisciplinary Performance—‘Symphony of the Ursus Factory’, dir. Jasmina Wojcik, 2018

Former workers of Poland's manufacturing giant are asked to reinterpret their labor rituals through dance and music in a visceral body of analytical work from Poland's finest young artists

January 12th, 2020|Country: Poland|

Family Values, Fraud, Post-Colonialism, and Scary Healing Rituals in ‘Suleiman Mountain’, dir. Elizaveta Stishova, 2017

A husband, his two wives, and estranged young son grapple with opportunities and morals in rural Kyrgyzstan—a powerful road-movie from a young Russian director

January 6th, 2020|Country: Kyrgyzstan, Poland, Russia|

Book: Józef Czapski, Inhuman Land: Searching for the truth in Soviet Russia, 1941-1942

The memoirs of an artist and activist who traveled across USSR in search of Polish POWs during WWII, that give an unflinching account of life in the remote corners of the Soviet empire

August 1st, 2019|Country: Iran, Iraq, Poland, Russia, Turkmenistan, Ukraine|

Film: Pity, dir. Babis Makridis, 2018

A pitch black Greek Weird Wave comedy from Babis Makridis about a man who feels like the world is unjust and not cruel enough to him

June 10th, 2019|Country: Greece, Poland|

Film: Fugue, dir. Agnieszka Smoczyńska, 2018

When memory loss is not the plot for a romantic comedy, it gets pretty dark, as shown in this dark thriller

May 20th, 2019|Country: Poland|

Book: Adam Mickiewicz, Pan Tadeusz, 1834

November 13th, 2018|Country: Poland|

Music: Yemen Blues, Yemen Blues Live in Tel Aviv, 2017

June 7th, 2018|Country: Egypt, Israel, Poland, Uruguay, USA, Yemen|

Book: Witold Gombrowicz, Ferdydurke, 1937

February 19th, 2018|Country: Poland|