NAUKI POLITYCZNE Turystyka międzynarodowa ENGLISH: Marie Voignier’s “International Touris” consists of images recorded by the filmmaker during her recent trip to North Korea, part of a new effort on the part of its notoriously secretive government to receive international visitors on guided tours. Voignier’s film is driven by its maker’s unsurprising observation that her approved hosts presented a carefully manicured vision of the country. Her primary formal intervention is the removal of all synchronous sound from footage that she shot in North Korea using a small digital camera and her post-production recomposition of the soundtrack’s ambient noise without the voices of the various guides, docents and interlocutors who appear on screen. The film is effectively subordinated to this conceptual gimmick, which, despite the clearly keen desire of its maker to speak to the situations of those living in an undemocratic state, ends up speaking more to her own relative distance from those whom she records. That distance, her film argues, was already in place when she arrived in the country for her tour. By over-emphasising and indeed isolating this fact, Voignier obscures and risks caricaturing those few human interlocutors with whom she was permitted to communicate. 25-LECIE BEZ GRANIC W EUROPIE Znikające granice ENGLISH: An essay in five parts, “Evaporating Borders” offers a series of vignettes, poetically guided by the filmmaker's curious eye and personal reflections. Through the people she encounters along the way, the film dissects the experience of asylum seekers in Cyprus: A PLO activist and exile from Iraq is denied asylum within 15 minutes; neo-nazi fundamentalists roam the streets in an attack on Muslim migrants; activists and academics organize an antifascist rally and clash with the neo-nazis; 195 migrants drown in the Mediterranean. Originally from Yugoslavia and an immigrant to Cyprus, Iva Radivojevic investigates the effects of large-scale immigration on the sense of national identity in one of the easiest ports of entry into Fortress Europe. Poetically photographed and rendered, the film passionately weaves the themes of migration, tolerance, identity and belonging. FILM Z NAPISAMI W JĘZYKU POLSKIM I ANGIELSKIM REZERWACJE NALEŻY ODEBRAĆ NAJPÓŹNIEJ 60MIN PRZED ROZPOCZĘCIEM SEANSU PLEASE PICK UP YOUR RESERVATIONS AT LAST 60MIN BEFORE THE MOVIE
