Wroclaw edition of PLANETE+ DOC FF

Wrocław edition of the festival will be held in the week of May 14 through 20 in the Lower Silesian Film Center (Dolnośląskie Centrum Filmowe) and will showcase 49 films. The jury made up of Przemysław Wojcieszek, Magda Podsiadły and Lambros Ziotas will award the Lower Silesian Grand Prix – Dolnośląskie Voivodeship Marshall's Award and €3000 – to the best of the 16 films vying for the Millennium Award.

Wrocław edition of the festival will be visited by over a dozen filmmakers, including Mathieu Roy, one of the directors behind Surviving Progress (produced by Martin Scorses and producers of Corporation), Michael Glawogger (director of Workingman's Death), who will attend the premiere screening of Whores' Glory (awarded at Venice FF), and Academy Award winner James Marsh (Man on Wire), who will present his most recent documentary Project Nim, following the incredible story of a chimpanzee brought up as a human by an American family.

Apart from stirring film screenings that leave room for questions, the festival will include a series of debates devoted to the most recent of the issues in the rapidly-changing reality of the 21st century. On the very first day of the festival (May 14), co-director of Surviving Progress Mathieu Roy and other invited guests will lead a panel discussion on traps of progress and threats posed by global growth entitled “Progress – Illusion of Eternal Growth?”
On Wednesday, May 16, the screening of Gary Hustwit's Urbanized will be followed by a panel discussion with experts in the field on perspectives of sustainable development on local level. The debate will be titled “Sustainable Cities of the Future: Plans or Dreams?”. Meanwhile, the debate “Quo Vadis, Russia?” on democracy in contemporary Russia, which will be held on May 17 after the screening of Putin's Kiss by Lise Birk Pedersen, will be attended by a very special guest – Ilya Yashin, leader of the Solidarnost political movement in Russia. And on Saturday, May 19, following the screening Mads Brügger's The Ambassador, experts will discuss limits of journalism ethics in a panel entitled “Journalism's Grey Zone: When the Journalist Becomes a Criminal.”

After indulging in the festival's cinematic experiences, viewers are invited to attend a series of concerts in Wrocław's Puzzle club. Monday, May 14 will see the recital of „Marilyn. Miss. M.”, and Wednesday, May 16, will be an opportunity to see Midi Lidi in concert. This experimental Czech electro group mixes pop with 1990's electro and stars in the film Marija's Own by Željka Sukova. Other concerts will be held throughout the duration of the festival.

The festival program will also included a live broadcast in Wrocław, Warsaw and Juba, capital of South Sudan, videoconference with the acclaimed Canadian writer Margaret Atwood. The meeting will be held on Friday, May 18, following the screening of Jennifer Baichwal Payback, which is inspired by Atwood's book Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth.

More information about the program of the festival's Wrocław edition coming up soon under the tab WROCŁAW.

Ticket presales begin on May 4 in Dolnośląskie Centrum Filmowe in Wrocław. Presale ticket prices: 12 zł per ticket when at least 6 tickets are purchased. Regular ticket price: 15 zł.