Dear Friends,

We’d like to present the selection of the best full-length documentary films of the last season. The directors of those spectacular and masterfully produced films portray the real world in macro and micro scale, showing real people and using real dialogues in an enviable way. Those films have been selected for you by our programming team at different film festivals, e.g. Planet Doc Review, Cracow Film Festival, Jihlava.

Thanks to our cooperation with Hagi Film, TWO RIVERSIDES Festival audience will have a chance to see Lucy Walker’s Waste Land, a film which will have its premiere at our Festival. In the film we are following the artist Vik Muniz on his journey from Brooklyn to his home country, Brazil, and the world’s biggest landfill located outside Rio de Janeiro called Jardim Gramacho. Once there, Muniz starts spinning a tale about human desperation and dignity, proving that art has the power to bring changes. During our Festival you will also have a unique opportunity to see Sofia Tzavella’s Hotel Paradise, a film about people that possess nothing and are still happy. The director of the film will be our guest this year.

Tamra Davis’s Jean-Michel Basquiat: The radiant child is a documentary film about a painter and the director’s close friend. It’s a tribute paid to the artist who contended with racism and lack of understanding of his works. The film was nominated for the Jury Award at Sundance Film Festival. It will be featured at our Festival together with Julian Schnabl’s Basquiat, a film which is a part of the retrospective of Lech Majewski’s works. 

Henri-Georges Clouzot’s Inferno is a documentary film directed by Serge Bromberg and Ruxandra M. Annonier. It’s an unusual story about Clouzot’s exceptional film with Romy Schneider in the leading role and with folly and jealousy in the background.

Dzi Croquettes, a feature documentary directed by Tatiana Issa and Raphael Alvarez, is about a Brazilian theatre group that revolutionized the theatre and dance. The group has broken the taboos of the 1970s and 1980s, making the body their tool of confrontation with the dictatorship of the Brazilian government. The US premiere of the film was held in the Museum of Modern Art in NYC in July. The Polish premiere will also be held in a gallery, called Art Cinema in Synagogue, in Kazimierz Dolny during TWO RIVERSIDES Festival. Another Brazilian film which will also be featured in this gallery during the Festival is Grupo Corpo. It’s a documentary about a ballet group enrapturing with the style of dance and the style of life.

Among many films presented in the DOCUMENTARY section, you will see Kaleo La Belle’s Beyond this Place, awarded the Golden Horn at Kraków Film Festival, and Marko Škop’s Osadne, an ironical and somehow pleasant story about an encounter between current top European leaders and the local politicians from the last village on the edge of the European Union.

Dates and times of the screenings can be found on our website (www.dwabrzegi.pl/?p=1397)

Let’s meet in Kazimierz Dolny, Janowiec by the Vistula River and Puławy.