For its 5^th edition in Brussels, the short wave film festival POLISH WAVE is changing rooms and format: the Cinéma Galeries will screen the films made by four young Polish directors at a free screening.  

On the programme:

• presentation of the festival by the director of the Ad Arte Foundation, Szymon STEMPLEWSKI
• screening of 4 short films:

>>> Wolta (Volte) by Monika KOTECKA and Karolina PORYZAŁA
>>> Czarnoksiężnik z krainy U.S. (The Wizard of U.S.) by Balbina BRUSZEWSKA
>>> Heimat by Emi BUCHWALD
>>> Fusy (Dregs) by Kordian KĄDZIELA

• drink

PRACTICAL INFORMATION
>>> Cinéma Galeries (Galerie de la Reine 26, 1000 Brussels) – see map
>>> 22 November 2018 – 19h
>>> free of charge
All films in their original version, but with subtitles in English and French.

POLISH WAVE is an initiative devoted to promoting Polish cinematographic creations, run by the Ad Arte Foundation, the organiser of the Short Waves festival, which has taken place in Poland every year since 2008. The POLISH WAVE programme brings together a carefully-selected set of innovative and surprising short films, the essence of the ‘Polish wave’, or, in other words, the new phenomena of the Polish audiovisual scene.

Wolta (Volte)
Monika KOTECKA, Karolina PORYZAŁA | Documentary | 2016 | 14 min
Zuzia is twelve and she’s been training as an equestrian vaulter for several years. She’s the capstone crowning their human pyramid. A new, intensive season begins and it turns out that the moves she’s involved in lack grace and lightness.

Czarnoksiężnik z krainy U.S. (The Wizard of U.S.)
Balbina BRUSZEWSKA | Animation | 2017 | 23 min
Social satire on the story by L. F. Baum. A mysterious tornado grabs Dorothy and takes her to an unusual place. She follows the yellow brick road to the wizard who will surely make her dreams come true.

Heimat
Emi Buchwald | Fiction | 2017 | 24 min
Five members of a rather peculiar family meet at the police station. Three grown-up children have to testify against the man who beat up their father.

Fusy (Dregs)
Kordian KĄDZIELA | 2017 | Fiction | 28 min
Beata is a telephone fortune teller and she’s advising thousands in her work. Her life changes drastically, when one of her readings almost leads to a tragedy.