School in Focus: Poland

75 minutes
School in Focus: Poland

Poland enjoys a rich heritage and a flourishing contemporary animation culture. And quality education. HAFF presents the latest developments animation and visual arts and student films.

This program screened as part of HAFF 2017

Showing in this program

A Documentary Film

A Documentary Film

  • Marcin Podolec
  • Poland, 2015
  • 7 min.

Portrait of a father, whose adult children live their own lives far away from him. Director follows his every daily routine at the swimming pool, at work, at home and – first of all – he explores his emotions. It's a film about complicated relationship.
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Chainlets

Chainlets

  • Alicja Błaszczyńska
  • Poland, 2016
  • 8 min.
Foreign Body

Foreign Body

  • Marta Magnuska
  • Poland, 2016
  • 7 min.

A foreign body lives its own life. You're not able to get rid of it, it's always with you, you need it. Caress that odd part of yours, don't try to shave its long tousled fur. This is a story about something that's considered to be strange at first but turns out to be the dearest thing to us. About the transformation of inside and outside.

Hail Mary

Hail Mary

  • Aleksandra Wit
  • Poland, 2016
  • 5 min.
Kinki

Kinki

  • Izumi Yoshida
  • Poland, 2015
  • 10 min.

‘Kinki’ is an abstract animated film that combines the genres of horror and psychological thriller. The main character, a murderer, records images in his mind which he then uses to reconstruct his crimes. This film attempts to contemplate the real objects (set here and now), which are completely different from the distorted images stored in the killers mind.

Magneticman

Magneticman

  • Adam Żądło
  • Poland, 2014
  • 3 min.

The world, which aim is keeping balance.
The place, where everything attract or repels everything else.
Even people.

MAGNETICMAN is a story about humans and principles controlling unlike world. Place dominated by the attractive force - similar to „our” magnetism. The world have one target - keeping balance. Magnetic people make it with their bodies.

Ride of the Tram

Ride of the Tram

  • Milena Molenda
  • Poland, 2012
  • 14 min.

Movie „Ride of the tram” is peculiar show of the city society,
observed from a level of tram.
Every stop of the tram shows reflection about da y by day life.
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Steven and the Beetle

Steven and the Beetle

  • Piotr Hoang Ngoc
  • Poland, 2012
  • 13 min.

Story about friendship between Beetle and Human called Stefan.

Yesterday’s Record

Yesterday’s Record

  • Michal Soja
  • Poland, 2015
  • 5 min.

Hundreds of incentives and a variety of roles and tasks shape a chaotic view of the outside world that is then formed in our perceiving mind. This realization is an analisys of the perception of such a disordered reality which also attempts to translate memory into movie. The author sets mechanical records of everyday life with a diary-like, personal registration of past events.
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