SEARCHING FOR YOURSELF

The SEARCHING FOR YOURSELF programme section refers to the process of formation of one's identity.

It describes a breakthrough moment in which every person sometimes finds oneself - looking for one’s roots, the meaning of life, or the most important values. We invited artists to express what the process of finding oneself means to them - a process that never ends. They treated the subject in various ways: from confessions about their state of mind, through research into the past, genealogy, trance states, the definition of rebellion against established social rules, to a change of perspective - breaking the habit and starting to understand the world through one’s body.

SHORT FILMS SET I

• • Story 1 & 2, Kenya Hara, Japonia / Japan 2023, 1’44”
  • Story 3, Kenya Hara, Japonia / Japan 2023, 1’39”
  • Story 4, Kenya Hara, Japonia / Japan 2023, 0’57”
  • Zawsze chciałem być psem (nawet nieładnym), Wojciech Siejak, Polska / Poland 2022, 4’28”
  • DUDE, Konstantin Rosshoff, Marco Jorger, Tanay Sirin, Szwajcaria / Switzerland 2021, 5’17”
  • For Now, Tamar Chetzroni, Izrael / Israel 2020, 4’17”
  • Autoportret odczuwany / Self-Portrait as Felt, Julia Benedyktowicz, Polska / Poland 2021, 7’27”
  • This Is How I Felt, Josh Weissbach, USA 2022, 1’35”
  • A photo of me, Dennis Tupicoff , Australia 2017, 10’48”
  • Hello world, Aleksandra Łapińska, Polska / Poland 2022, 2’08”
  • ANGLE MORT / BLIND SPOT, Lotfi Achour,  Francja, Tunezja / France, Tunisia 2022, 13’13”
  • Aż do szpiku kości / To the Bone, Ewelina Duffy, Polska / Poland 2022, 1’30”
  • Ant Hotel, Yu-Hsuan Teng, Tajwan / Taiwan 2022, 9’15”
  • Gift of Nature / Dar Natury, Jerzy Górski Polska / Poland 2020, 2’50”
  • I, Candy, Candy Kugel, USA 2018, 21’34”

SHORT FILMS SET II

• • Choice, Dudek Pulit, Polska / Poland 2020, 4’50” 
  • Without End, Yuki Sun, USA 2022, 1’52” 
  • In Between, Yuki Sun, USA 2022, 4’ 
  • Dystans / Distance, Katarzyna Orłowska, Polska / Poland 2021, 3’17” 
  • Ja i Ja / Me & Me, Adela Górna, Polska / Poland 2022, 2’37” 
  • Oestrum, Monika Słoma, Polska / Poland 2022, 5’05” 
  • Curiosities, Alon Avidar, Izrael / Israel 2022, 7’30” 
  • SEVEN.mp4, Jakub Kostewicz, Polska / Poland 2022, 1’25” 
  • THE PERPETRATORS, Richard Squires, Wielka Brytania / United Kingdom 2022, 14’35” 
  • Mała Czarna / A short black, Weronika Dziurdziewicz, Polska / Poland 2022, 2’57”    
  • Mea Culpa, Diek Grobler, Południowa Afryka / South Africa 2022, 3’ 
  • How To Get Your Man Pregnant, Gyeongmu Noh, Korea 2022, 30’ 

MY GRANDFATHER'S DEMONS (dir. Nuno Beato, Portugal 2022)

Rosa, a top professional woman, highly rated in the business market, leads a demanding life entirely dedicated to her work. The sudden death of her grandfather, from whom she had progressively moved away, due to her endless work, ends up causing her a sudden attack of stress, that puts her choices in doubt. Rosa decides to leave the city and set out to find the place and the memories of her childhood, lived with her grandfather. When she arrives at the isolated property, in the middle of the Trás-os-Montes landscape, she discovers that her grandfather left her a set of practically abandoned lands and an almost in ruins house of her childhood. Driven by the remorse and the need to find new goals to herself, she starts rebuilding her house and grow the fields. Rosa, however, is not alone on her quest. In addition to the people with whom she will establish new bonds, there appears a group of clay demons, modeled once by her grandfather, who seem, at times, to come to life, advising, guiding and consoling her, as grandfather himself would have done.