Bar Croquette Freestyle

Filmstill Bar Croquette Freestyle

Bar Croquette Freestyle

Bar krokiet freestyle
Maria Dakszewicz
International Competition Animated Film
Animated Film
Poland
2025
5 minutes
Polish
Subtitles: 
English
International Premiere

The discrepancy between a bleak, dreary provincial town and an imaginative woman in her prime who longs for adventure bursts forth as a stirringly animated cri de coeur. Maria Dakszewicz’s protagonist immerses herself so deeply in a Bollywood film that in her imagination she becomes the main character of the colourful and divinely joyous love story. This makes her return to the empty, cold “reality bar” all the more painful – with its annoying neighbours, depressing weather and the mocking slogans for self-improvement on advertising boards and in women’s magazines.
A high-proof cocktail of tragicomedy, garnished with enormous power, humour, love, physicality and melancholy. The last brushstroke is the equivalent of the unattainable, shimmering figure of the Bollywood sultan in the Bar Croquette reality – which also brings a kind of contentment, albeit of a quite different nature … With this film, Dakszewicz creates a distinctive, original and wild aesthetic: The clay figure, still warm from fingerprints, blends seamlessly into ink drawings –incongruous at first glance and yet as harmoniously fused as dreamt sensuality with an Indian sultan in the grey Polish province.


Irina Rubina

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28.10.
#211
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28.10.2025
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29.10.
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29.10.2025
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30.10.
#442
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30.10.2025
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02.11.
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02.11.2025
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Credits DOK Leipzig Logo

Director
Maria Dakszewicz
Script
Maria Dakszewicz
Editor
Maria Dakszewicz
Producer
Agata Golańska
Sound Design
Jakub Krzyszpin, Maria Dakszewicz
Score
Maria Dakszewicz
Animation
Maria Dakszewicz
Animation Technique
2D Digital, Clay, Mixed Media

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Main Contact
Maria Dakszewicz
mariadakszewicz@gmail.com
Nominated for: mephisto 97.6 Audience Award