The temperature in Kazimierz is getting higher and higher not only because of the wonderful weather. And yesterday at noon it was really hot in the Small Cinema, everything because of the atmosphere of the Festival and Krzysztof Zanussi’s excellent sense of humour. He was our guest in ‘Cinema Lesson’ section, which was a mixture of laughter and anecdotes blended with pondering about happiness and with artistic homage paid to Zbigniew Zapasiewicz, his film porte-parole- as the director calls him. The Festival audience was perpetuated by the director in photos but we hope that it will be possible to have him as our guest during TWO RIVERSIDES Festival many times.

The third day of the Festival started with an emotional journey to the North. Thomas Vinterberg’s Submarino turned out to be a poignant and expressive film about trying to find a way to yourself and to other people.

After having been presented at the festivals in Sarajevo and St. Petersburg, Sophia Tzavelli’s Hotel Paradise was featured in Kazimierz Dolny. This shocking documentary shows a different world in Block 20. To see it, you just have to cross the street. The director herself introduced the audience to this story about a communist experiment conducted on hundreds of Gypsy families. Our next guest, Richard Martin-Jordan, took us to islands on the Pacific Ocean with his documentary film, ‘God is American’. So far it has been awarded 11 prizes at different festivals. In Kazimierz it provoked a heated discussion between the audience and the director.

Michel Franco’s debut film ‘Daniel and Ana’ also moved the audience. This story based on true events shows that after surpassing some boundaries nothing is ever the same.

In the evening Kazimierz Dolny changed into Gotham City. Thanks to FAC OFF section (Film Anthology of Comics) some of the greatest comic heroes appeared at our Festival. In PGE Cinema we could see the first film adaptation of the adventures of Bruce Wayne and his dark alter ego. According to an old tradition, the series will be divided into episodes to be featured before other comic films. Leslie H. Martinson’s ‘Batman’ surprised the audience because this cinema adaption of the TV series from 1960s has never been presented in Poland.



Today we invite you to a special ‘Cinema Lesson’ with Jerzy Stefan Stawiński. His film confession held at noon will be supplemented in the evening with the screening of ‘Crossed Luck’ in the Mosquito Cinema. In Waleriej Todorowski’s ‘Hipsters’ we will travel to the world of motley jackets, boots on thick rubber soles and crazy boogie. Another unusual story in the Festival program is Serge Bromberg and Ruxandra M. Annonier’s Henri-Georges Cluzot’s Inferno, a story about a film with folly and jealousy in the background. In the evening we invite you to Justyna Szafran’s monodrama ‘Thus Spoke Buddha Chinaski’, staged in PEARL Festival Club.