British film-maker Phil Grabsky travelled to central Afghanistan a few months after the fall of the Taliban. His aim was to produce a cinema film that would explore the lives of ordinary Afghans. Over ten years in Afghanistan, THE BOY MIR tracks cheeky, enthusiastic Mir from a childish eight to a fully grown eighteen-year-old. This is a journey into early adulthood in one of the toughest places on...

    Italian and foreign secret services, customs police, Guardia di Finanza (financial police), security guards, sniffer dogs, currency dogs and explosive detector dogs, closed circuit tv cameras everywhere and the ever-growing fear of an impending unknown danger. By watching the airport life we put together a portrait of a customs border in four movements. The castle is a choral film, at times dramatic, at...

    Alina Margolis-Edelman was – according to Marian Falski, the author of “Reading Primer”– famous Ala from his novel. She lived through the nightmare of ghetto and March’68. As the only Polish woman among all “Doctors of the World” was present in places of the domestic war, from which doctors were escaping, and where children could not be treated due to the lack...

    “The Parade” presents Democratic People's Republic of Korea at the moment of its fortieth anniversary celebrations, which coincided with Seoul Olympics. The aim of the communist power was to organize the national feast, so as it could dim the international sport event with its momentum and expressiveness. What was the result? That is precisely what Fidyk's film tells us about. The author...

    In „The Postcard from Japan” Andrzej Fidyk shows the methods in which an employee can be manipulated so as to turn his work and loyalty to the company into the unique sense of his life. The film is a portrait of the economic totalitarianism. In Japan only a reputable kindergarten, reputable school and equally reputable college may facilitate - but in no way guarantee - somebody’s...