Kinoteka in the Palace of Culture Last week I attended 13 films at the DOCs Against Gravity film festival in Warsaw. Kinoteka, pictured at right, became my home. It may be that I actually attended more films in 2013 when I was here, since I became very interested in a Belorussian director who was being featured. Nonetheless, thirteen was an amazing experience -- I saw films made by Finns and Chileans, Italians and Norwegians, Croatians who studied film in the Soviet Union, Poles who had emigrated to Britain, and an American who spent three years riding trains while working on his PhD in anthropology in China. Films about Ukraine, and Argentina, and Russia. It was a truly international experience -- especially because of the beloved Polish tradition of the spotkanie -- meetings with directors, and in some cases with the actors featured in the films. In each screening room a moderator and a translator led discussions after the films, and it was interesting to hear the di...
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