Neighbours

Date
Hour
Place
04/08/2015
16:00
THE SILVER STAR CINEMA


Sąsiady
reż|dir Grzegorz Królikiewicz | PL | 2014 | 95 min
prod|pro Łukasz Barczyk scen|wr Grzegorz Królikiewicz, Adrian Markowski zdj|ph Krzysztof Ptak muz|mus Marek Dyjak, Bogumiła Kłopotowska mon|ed Cezary Kowalczuk ob|cast Marek Dyjak, Kamila Wojciechowicz, Andrzej Lipiński, Ewa Dałkowska, Sławomir Sulej, Krystyna Tkacz, Ewa Błaszczyk, Ryszard Mróz, Katarzyna Herman, Jacek Poniedziałek, Anna Mucha, Mariusz Pudzianowski dys|dis Kino Świat

DESCRIPTION

An adaptation of stories by Adrian Markowski portrays the unease, insecurities, and instincts that control Poles tired of living in a vegetative state on the margins of society. In the very episodic, chock-full of absurdities, but also lyrical plot we observe people who are desperate and tired, impoverished and homeless. We look at the ever damp industrial city that surely remembers the People's Republic of Poland, at the grey, ramshackle buildings and dilapidated tenement houses. It is a sad-and-funny reality, abundant with tragic emotions and exaggerated gestures.  In spite of the brutality pervading this environment, ordinary human kindness manages to come through. All of this makes up a film free of social cinema clichés, a performance about contemporary Poland, rich in symbolism and the grotesque.


AWARDS
2014 Gdynia Film Festival – Golden Lions nomination

DIRECTOR
Grzegorz Królikiewicz (1939) Director, screenwriter, pedagogue, cinema theoretician, and avant-garde provocateur considered equal to Robert Bresson and Ingmar Bergman by Polish critics. In his films, he investigates the dark side of man, utilising an entire array of formal techniques and means of poetic expression. “Neighbours” is his return to feature films after 20 years.

FILMOGRAPHY
2014 Sąsiady | Neighbours
1980 Zabicie ciotki | Killing Auntie
1993 Przypadek Pekosińskiego | Beautiful Life of Bronek Pekosiński, The
1974 Wieczne pretensje | Permanent Objections
1972 Na wylot | Through and Through

© Festiwal Filmu i Sztuki Dwa Brzegi Kazimierz Dolny Janowiec nad Wisłą
Projekt i realizacja: Tomasz Żewłakow