BEST OF: Warsaw Film Festival
It was a close call for the 36th edition of the Warsaw Film Festival - less than two days ago, due to the large number of infections with the new Coronavirus, Warsaw entered the red zone, a situation that the festival missed by inches. As for myself, I could watch everything that was on my watchlist under safe conditions, as the cinemas halls were almost empty, and the audience very quiet. Being inside the old halls of Kinoteka, even made me feel like I was at Patria Cinema. Whereas outside, a dense fog flooded the dormant crown of the Palace of Culture, which seemed to change its appearance from day to day. I might have spent 10 days crossing 3 streets back and forth, but I made it up by watching over 20 films - from short films to feature and documentary films, I made my way through all sections. The five titles below are my own best of from what I’ve managed to see at the festival (I should say, not all of them were in competition sections, and I had already written about Spiral and Preparations to Be Together for an Unknown Period of Time).
Journalist and film critic, with a master's degree in film critics. Collaborates with Scena9, Acoperișul de Sticlă, FILM and FILM Menu magazines. For Films in Frame, she brings the monthly top of films and writes the monthly editorial Panorama, published on a Thursday. In her spare time, she retires in the woods where she pictures other possible lives and flying foxes.
