The 2014 goEast Portrait is dedicated to Małgorzata Szumowska, one of the most interesting directors working in middle Europe at present.
MAŁGORZATA SZUMOWSKA
Thursday | 10.04. |
Caligari
14:00
SHORT FILM PROGRAMME
4 Short Films
70 min
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Alpha
22:00
ELLES
Małgorzata Szumowska
Germany, France, Poland 2011
Anne is a cultivated Parisian journalist with the glossy magazine Elle. Interviewing two students who work as call-girls, she is surprised by their positive attitude to their work. The freedom enjoyed by the young women makes Anne question her own... > more
Friday | 11.04. |
Murnau Filmtheater
16:00
HAPPY MAN
Małgorzata Szumowska
Poland 2000
Malgorzata Szumowska’s first full-length feature is a portrait of Jan, an author yet to be published. He still lives with his mother. Just when he decides it’s time to change his life, he learns his mother is terminally ill. He resolves... > more
Saturday | 12.04. |
Alpha
14:00
IN THE NAME OF
Małgorzata Szumowska
Poland 2013
Adam is a gay priest who works in a young offenders’ institution, where he finds it difficult to distract himself with pious thoughts. He is particularly fascinated and unsettled by the taciturn Łukasz. When praying doesn’t help, he... > more
Festivalzentrum
16:00
IN DISCUSSION WITH
Nikolaj Nikitin in discussion with Małgorzata Szumowska > more
Sunday | 13.04. |
Murnau Filmtheater
16:00
STRANGER
Małgorzata Szumowska
Poland, Germany 2004
Eva, a young woman who works in a petrol station, is pregnant. The father’s done a bunk. She intends to have an abortion, but a stranger steals her money on her way to the clinic. She happens to overhear a doctor telling a mother-to-be that... > more
Monday | 14.04. |
Alpha
16:00
33 SCENES FROM LIFE
Małgorzata Szumowska
Poland, Germany 2008
An autobiographically inspired drama in which an artist called Julia seeks a way of coping with her mother’s illness with cancer. The disease is threatening to destroy the intellectual family in which the mother is a writer and her husband a... > more
Programmkino Rex
20:15
IN THE NAME OF
Małgorzata Szumowska
Poland 2013
Adam is a gay priest who works in a young offenders’ institution, where he finds it difficult to distract himself with pious thoughts. He is particularly fascinated and unsettled by the taciturn Łukasz. When praying doesn’t help, he... > more
Tuesday | 15.04. |
Alpha
20:00
ELLES
Małgorzata Szumowska
Germany, France, Poland 2011
Anne is a cultivated Parisian journalist with the glossy magazine Elle. Interviewing two students who work as call-girls, she is surprised by their positive attitude to their work. The freedom enjoyed by the young women makes Anne question her own... > more