FESTIVAL PROGRAM FOR APRIL 16

Grodno, an Eastern borderland of pre-war Poland. On September 1, 1939, German planes bombard the city. One of the bomb hits the school of Leoś, Ewelina and Tadek. Their world of innocent and care-free childhood, playing and first loves ends literally and figuratively. Leoś is 12. He is a Jewish boy fascinated with the Polish independence movement tradition.
On September 17, 1939, according to the Soviet and German pact the Red Army invades Poland and plans to capture Grodno. The city begins a hopeless fight against the occupants. The small troops are supported by civilians, mainly schoolchildren. The children and adolescents are the ones who heroically defend the city and fall victims of exceptional cruelty of the occupants.

"The Eaglets” is the first movie devoted to the Soviet army invasion of Poland in September, 1939.

Teenager Max has built a rocket and dreams of flying into space. Become the first child in space and achieve the attention and love of your mom. His friends from the orphanage, Vika and Pashka, want Max to stay, and his idea is considered stupid and dangerous. They steal a strange suitcase at the train station, hoping to find a "galaxy" for Max there. But in it they find a small unusual boy who does not want to get out of his suitcase because the "outside" world seems to him too loud, bright and incomprehensible. His mother is desperate to find a suitcase with her son, who has autism, but whom she loves very much. The guys decide that he is an "alien" and try to return him to his mother, but face difficulties that bring them closer, and maybe they will share forever

Wolfy and his friends decided to play a fun game of throwing the empty yogurt bottles into the sea. Along with that they figure out how important is to keep our Planet clean and how to do waste sorting.

You’re not too old to make the difference.
How three generations have to deal with trash and to cope-with plastic waste.
Could our planet survive if we don't recycle? Time will tell.

Ardent admirers of fiction in cinema, two twelve-year-old cousins spend their entire time devouring movies in a tiny private cinema. After watching “Back to the future” for the umpteenth time, they start to wonder about what they would do, should they time travel too. But reality sets in and makes them realize “Generation Z” is most certainly the last one in the alphabet. With their analysis and understanding of adults’ inability to make the universe evolve, they end up considering what they believe is the only possible solution… The Revolution!

The invasion takes the form of a sprawling mechanical monster commanded by a warlord, wreaking havoc in its path. Who can stop it? Maybe victory is close ... just a stone's throw away.
Short film made in collaboration with the Ukrainian composer / producer Koloah.

Guided by his grandmother’s haunting Sumerian lament, 9-year-old mute Ali takes his sheep, Kirmeta, for sacrifice on a strenuous 400km journey across Iraq’s landscape, destroyed by years of war, to the shrine of an ancient saint. Along the journey Kirmeta becomes increasingly resistant and runs away to escape his bloody fate.
Ali eventually finds Kirmeta amongst carcasses of cars leftover from decades of violence and false promises of freedom. When Kirmeta collapses from exhaustion the pilgrims think he’s dead. But with the continuous prayers of grandmother back in the village, Kirmeta mysteriously recovers. Witnessing this the pilgrims declare him a MIRACLE SHEEP, a reputation that accompanies them on the rest of their journey. Can both boy and sheep survive the hardship and accept their fate?
A lyrical hybrid film whose symbolism exposes the suffering of a nation whose only hope left is a mute child and his “miraculous” sheep.

Sacha is going to a dance open call. Nothing is happening as planned, he gets there late, ends up behind everyone and can't see anything.