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European docs dominate the programme of the Krakow Film Festival
The Red Ring by Joonas Berhall
As Poland is slowly reopening after weeks of lockdown, with cinemas scheduled to be operating again no later than 29 May, the Krakow Film Festival, celebrating its 61st edition this spring, has announced its selection.
This year, the gathering will take place both in physical form and virtually, hopefully inaugurating an entire offline festival season in Poland. Due to the pandemic, the programme of the event was slightly altered, but is still sticking to its core elements – the International Competition, the National Competition, the Short Films Competition and the Industry event, simply called KFF Industry.
European docs dominate the programme of the Krakow Film Festival
The Red Ring by Joonas Berhall
As Poland is slowly reopening after weeks of lockdown, with cinemas scheduled to be operating again no later than 29 May, the Krakow Film Festival, celebrating its 61st edition this spring, has announced its selection.
This year, the gathering will take place both in physical form and virtually, hopefully inaugurating an entire offline festival season in Poland. Due to the pandemic, the programme of the event was slightly altered, but is still sticking to its core elements – the International Competition, the National Competition, the Short Films Competition and the Industry event, simply called KFF Industry.
Children of the Enemy Review: Fighting for the Children of ISIS Fighters Children of the Enemy Review: Fighting for the Children of ISIS Fighters
A grandfather s tense, tireless efforts to rescue his seven grandchildren from the camp they ve been in since their ISIS-loyal parents died.
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Running time: Running time: 95 MIN.
Courtesy of CPH:DOX
Whenever we see them, the seven contested children at the heart of Gorki Glaser-Müller’s taut, highly emotive “Children of the Enemy” have their eyes blurred over, to help protect their identities. It’s a strangely reassuring element in a film that at certain moments may be watched through nail-bitten fingers: If the seven grandkids of Patricio Galvez, the tenacious Chilean-Swedish musician fighting to get them out of Syria, need such protections, it must mean that they are still alive an assumption anything but guaranteed by their pitiably malnourished state and the precarious
Syrian documentary premieres at Copenhagen film festival
Syrian documentary
Children of the Enemy, which captures the journey of a Swedish-Chilean man to a Syrian prison camp to rescue his grandchildren, had its world premiere at the Copenhagen documentary film festival CPH:DOX this week.
Director Gorki Glaser-Müller’s documentary focuses on Chilean-Swede musician Patricio Galvez who attempts to bring his orphaned grandchildren home after their parents – members of Daesh – are killed.
The film depicts how Galvez’s daughter Amanda and her husband, a Swedish Muslim convert, travelled to Syria with their children in 2014 to fight for Daesh. Both parents were killed in 2019 and their seven children were transferred to an overcrowded refugee camp in North-East Syria.