Krakow Film Festival: Basque Window

The 63rd Krakow Film Festival will run this year from 28 May to 4 June. Krakow Film Festival is one of the oldest events in the world dedicated to documentary, animated and short feature films. Its core consists of three competitions of equal rank: documentary film competition, short film competition and national competition: documentary film competition, short film competition and national competition. Throughout the eight days of the festival, viewers will have the opportunity to enjoy a diverse selection of around 250 films from Poland and around the world.

This year, two Basque films will be included in the festival’s ‘Focus on Spain’ non-competitive section. This is the result of an agreement between the Etxepare Basque Institute and the festival aimed at ensuring the vibrant presence of Basque cinema at the Krakow Film Festival.

‘Two breaths’ (Bi arnas, Jon Mikel Fernandez, 2022).

• 30 May, 6:30pm, Agrafka Cinema.
• 2 June, 4:00pm, Agrafka Cinema. The screening will be followed by a discussion.

‘El Drogas’ (Natxo Leuza, 2022).

• 28 May, 4:00pm, Agrafka Cinema.
• 1 June, 6:30pm, Pod Baranami Cinema. The screening will be followed by a discussion.

Basque. Audiovisual. will be present at the CEDOC Market, a creative documentary co-production encounter to be held in Kraków as part of the Kraków Film Festival.

Two Basque projects have been selected by ICAA to participate in the ‘Co-production meeting’ that will take place from May 31 to June 3. Iñigo Lezertua from the production company Balea Media will attend with ‘Beloki, father and son’ and Amaia Remirez Garcia from Kanaki Films will be present with ‘Vréco: Sarajevo – New York – Granada’.

During the days of the encounter, the Basque producers will have the opportunity to participate in different co-production meetings with their Polish counterparts, make a presentation about the Spanish documentary market and carry out several individual meetings with other projects selected at CEDOC.