The A. Munk Film Discussion Club invites you to the Weekend with Millennium Docs Against Gravity. From 19 to 21 May the audience of Światowid Cinema will watch 6 selected documentaries straight from the biggest festival of non-fiction cinema in the world!

MDAG is one of the largest documentary film festivals in the world, presenting cinema of the highest order. Last year's hybrid edition attracted over 138,000 viewers! This year, the festival will take place from 12-21 May in eight cities: Warsaw, Gdynia, Wrocław, Poznań, Łódź, Katowice, Lublin and Bydgoszcz. And also in numerous cities in Poland as part of the MDAG Festival Weekend, which this year falls on 19-21 May.

The Światowid Cinema will host the following films (DOWNLOAD PROGRAMME):

Friday, 19 May

• 18:00 "After work", dir. by Erik Gandini, Sweden, Norway, Italy, 2023, 81 min

In Kuwait, everyone has the right to work, so in some places 20 people are employed at one job. In South Korea, people work 12-14 hours a day. In the United States, on the other hand, workers give up more than 500 million hours of leave every year for fear of losing their jobs. Meanwhile, robots are already ready to take over most of the tasks performed by humans. It's an ideal situation for Swedish master documentary filmmaker Erik Gandini, who travels around the world and takes an in-depth look at what the word 'work' means today.

• 20:00 "All the Beauty and the Bloodshed", dir. by Laura Poitras, USA, 2022, 113 min.

An Oscar-nominated extraordinary film portrait of Nan Goldin, a legendary photographer and activist who now devotes all her energy to the activist group she founded, PAIN, standing up for painkiller addicts and fighting the Sackler family pharmaceutical company, co-responsible for the opioid crisis in the States.

Saturday, 20 May

• 18:00 "Smoke Sauna Sisterhood", dir. by Anna Hints, Estonia, France, Iceland, 2023, 89 min.

Award-winning film at the Sundance Film Festival about a group of women gathering in a traditional sauna to share their deepest secrets, and thoughts and draw strength from togetherness. Surrounded by smoke, they expose not only their bodies but also their emotions. We find out what they have experienced in their lives. "Smoke Sauna Sisterhood" overflows with an authentic beauty that comes not from having the perfect body, but from humour, wisdom and self-awareness.

• 20:00 "Polish Prayers", dir.Hanna Nobis, Poland, Switzerland, 2022, 84 min.

The life of Antek, a twenty-two-year-old conservative from Wrocław, revolves around national thought, the church and right-wing activism. He alternates the leadership of a nationalist organisation with activities in a men's rosary brotherhood. Everything changes when he meets Veronika, a girl with opposing views. The film chronicles the life of the protagonist who, influenced by love, begins to ask questions about the place of God, sex and professed ideals in his life.

Sunday, 21 May

• 18:00 "Lynch/Oz", dir. Alexandre O. Phillippe, USA, 2022, 110 min

What do David Lynch's films have in common with "The Wizard of Oz"? Fascination, inspiration or obsession? "Not a day goes by that I don't think about this book," admits the director. The film shows how the iconic children's book is present in the work of a director who grew out of American culture. But it is more than just an unusual look at the filmmaker and his obsession - it is a breathtaking meditation on the role of cinema in shaping our dreams.

• 20:00 "And the King Said, What a Fantastic Machine", dir. by Axel Danielson, Maximilien Van Aertryck, Sweden, Denmark, 2023, 88 min.

A journey through the historically vast ocean of modern media culture. We learn how the camera obscura was created, watch the first moving image demonstration, observe the invention of the webcam, visit today's Hollywood and learn more about a world filled with 45 billion cameras. The witty and thought-provoking film traces the development of image culture as we have known it so far.

 

Tickets can be purchased:

- online,

- at the Światowid European Meetings Centre box office. The box office is open from Monday to Friday from 2:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. On Saturdays and Sundays from 11:30 a.m. to 8:30 p.m,

- at the ticket machine located in the main hall of the "Światowid" CSE next to the Cinema box office (payment by card only) from 8:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m.