Here is the Palace of Culture -- in the tradition of me not knowing how to take a selfie The Warsaw Film Festival has a new name -- "Against Gravity." One of the main venues is Kinoteka , housed in the Palace of Culture (beloved, or hated, depending on whom you ask). I find Kinoteka at any rate to be fantastic -- eight different screens with an elegant lobby and intimate cafe spaces on either side. Today I saw two documentaries, one a French film called "Ashes" and the other a Norwegian film about Poland called "I am Kuba." Both, in the end, are about family and being foreign, and both ask questions about the process of making documentaries while themselves being documentaries. Perhaps that's what a documentary film festival is supposed to be about? "Ashes" follows a woman who has gone to Paris to attend her mother's funeral. Her mother Kyoko, it turns out, was born in Japan, near Hiroshima, and when in 1945 her older sister...
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