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Panorama Short Film 2022
Filmstill Uncle Vakho’s Dream
Uncle Vakho’s Dream
Joanna Roj
For the over eighty-year-old Vakho, the ice-covered mountainous region in the Georgian Caucasus is a self-chosen exile – out of deeply felt guilt about the death of his brother.
Filmstill Uncle Vakho’s Dream

Uncle Vakho’s Dream

Sen wujka Vakho
Joanna Roj
Panorama Short Film 2022
Documentary Film
Poland
2022
23 minutes
Georgian
Subtitles: 
English

According to mythology, Prometheus was bound to the rocks of Mount Kazbek, more than 5,000 metres high and covered in ice. For Vakho, this mountainous region in the Georgian Caucasus is a self-chosen exile – out of deeply felt guilt. 48 years ago, he lost his brother in tragic circumstances that had previously come to him in a dream: “I couldn’t let go of the past”, the man, now in his eighties, explains in this visually impressive debut short film portrait.

Jan-Philipp Kohlmann

Credits DOK Leipzig Logo

Director
Joanna Roj
Script
Joanna Roj
Cinematographer
Sandro Wysocki
Editor
Joanna Roj
Producer
Ewa Jastrzebska, Jerzy Kapuscinski
Co-Producer
Stanislaw Roj
Sound
Michal Jr Kosterkiewicz
Retrospective 2023
Filmstill Undefeated
Undefeated
Marek Drążewski
This taboo could not be broken until 30 years later: The Poznań protests of 1956, narrated as a collage of previously unpublished photos, footage and memories of participants.
Filmstill Undefeated

Undefeated

Niepokonani
Marek Drążewski
Retrospective 2023
Documentary Film
Poland
1984
75 minutes
Polish
Subtitles: 
English

Poznań, June 1956: For a long time, the “forgotten uprising” in which dozens of people lost their lives was a taboo in Poland. It was only in the mid-1980s, in a period of liberalisation, that Marek Drążewski could make this astonishingly frank review, in which he condenses the dramatic events using private photos, footage and memories of contemporary witnesses.

Katharina Franck, Andreas Kötzing

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Director
Marek Drążewski
Script
Marek Drążewski
Cinematographer
Jacek Siwecki
Editor
Małgorzata Rodowicz
Producer
Janusz Skałkowski
Sound
Ernest Zawada, Andrzej Lewandowski
Score
Jan A.P. Kaczmarek