Celluloid Solidarity: Contemporary Polish Filmmakers on Unity in their Work.

‘In the Rearview’ is the story of the ongoing war in Ukraine from the perspective of the van driver and film director Maciej Hamela. A few days after Russia's attack on Ukraine, Hamela set off with humanitarian aid for people affected by the war, transporting them from Ukraine to Poland. Dozens of them became characters in the documentary, bearing witness to the first days of the attack on their country. In the episode, we talk to Maciek Hamela about how the film helped and continues to raise funds

In this episode the acclaimed documentary filmmaker Hanna Polak talks about her latest film, the harrowing documentary ‘Angels of Sinjar’, about the massacre of the Yazidi minority by ISIS. Polak centres her story around two characters: Hanifa and Saeed, juxtaposing - in her own words - the female and male experience of suffering resulting from the loss of family and witnessing genocide. The director, known for her exceptionally long documentation process (she can accompany her characters for up to

In her film Hanna Nobis created a character of unprecedented sensitivity and complexity. The figure of Antek, overcoming a difficult and unexpected - also for himself - path from right-wing conservatism to metropolitan liberalism, becomes a pretext for a conversation about building a system of values and the circumstances that may influence this process, the formation of maturity, loyalty, and solidarity towards a group of friends, family and, finally, towards oneself. The episode also focuses on

The award-winning, critically and audience acclaimed ‘Scarbon’ is the only feature film representative of its genre in the Celluloid Solidarity podcast. Director Paweł Maślona builds the narrative around the figure of Tadeusz Kościuszko on the eve of the uprising, but the real protagonist of the film is the character of the illegitimate son of nobility Ignacy, who tries at all costs to prove his descent and, consequently, his rightful place in his father's will. We talk to Paweł Maślona about the

As we read in the film's promotional materials, ‘The Soil’ is a feminist documentary musical that surprises us with a fresh approach to the subject of women living in the rural areas'. In an interview with director Zuzanna Solakiewicz, we ask about the continuity of tradition and its value today, about the so-called ‘folk turn’ in culture and beyond, we discuss the therapeutic role of traditional song, and we inquire about the everyday life of women in the countryside in the past and present and