Screened as part of this year’s Kinoteka Polish Film Festival programme, you can catch independent documentary ‘HOME’ by Polish director Mela Hilleard (Elzbieta Piekacz) at two screenings in Manchester on the 19th of July.

The first screening, as part of the International Network of Experimental Fiction Filmmaking Festival, will take place between 15:30-17:15 at the Digital Media and Performance Lab, with an introduction from the director.

(The festival will also screen an earlier short film by Hilleard ‘At Dawn the Flowers Open the Gates of Paradise’ also on Friday 19th July from 6pm)

An additional screening of ‘HOME’ for Manchester’s Polish community, will take place at 8pm on the 19th July at Parafia Miłosierdzia Bożego.

‘HOME’ (95 minutes, United Kingdom/Poland, directed by Mela Hilleard) upturns the cinematic rules of how we think a film should be made. This full-length film is made from found footage; shot over a number of years, using a hand-held camera shooting ‘with gut feelings’ unscripted events and in an almost reverse process, the script was written last. ‘HOME’ focuses on family, identity and emigration (through the lens of Polish-Irish-South African-English ties), as well as the circle of life, death and rebirth. Its inspiration was a seven-year collection of films and photographs covering the lives of a handful of people ejected from their own cultures and homes, who create a home and find love at the house of a 90-year-old, bed-ridden writer, in suburban London.

Find out more about ‘HOME’ & watch a trailer here:

https://melahilleard.com/?page_id=192