Festival programme ready!

The process of arranging the programme of the Festival has finished. There was a battle over the most interesting films right up until the end. As a result, the Festival programme will exceed the magic limit of 100 movies! Naturally, the big number is coupled with good quality. Ale Kino! includes mostly new films, made within the last two years. The competition, divided into the children’s films section and the young people’s films section, will include 18 features and 36 short animations. Some of the competition movies are already successful in the world; other films definitely will. The competition features include Estonian pictures which have just taken off for the big time (The Class) or films from Brazil, hardly ever shown in Poland (Another Love Story) and Australia (Hey Hey It's Esther Blueburger). There are movies by directors bearing famous names (Buddha Collapsed out of Shame by Hana Makhmalbaf) and by artists whose movies were successful in Poznań in previous years (Somers Town by Shane Meadows, Worlds Apart by Niels Arden Oplev). We will also see celebrities on the screen (fantastic Ben Kingsley in The Wackness). As many as three competition animations are films nominated for Oscar (Madame Tutli-Putli and Even Pigeons Go to Heaven in 2008, and Hot Dog, of the same series, in 2005). The Festival will also have a rich fringe programme with a number of new sections: Ale Kino! HORROR ZONE with two ambitious horror films (Shiver from Spain and Fear(s) of the Dark, a horror animation from France) as well as Ale Kino! HISTORY ZONE with two features raising important themes of the contemporary European history (And Along Come Tourists from Germany and Mrs Ratcliffe’s Revolution from the United Kingdom). There is a section for adult audiences, BACK TO THE CHILDHOOD PANORAMA (The Other Boy from Germany and Flower in the Pocket from Malaysia), and for the youngest children aged 2 years and over, Ale Kino! FOR THE YOUNGEST YOUNG (Tales for Tiny Tots from Sweden, Wow! Says Little Bear from Denmark and The New Adventures of Teddy Drop-Ear from Poland). In the CHILDREN’S PANORAMA, we will see, among other films, a sequel to the little Chinese girl’s adventures in Holland (Where is Winky’s Horse?) and funny adventures of animated mosquitoes from Denmark (A Tale of Two Mozzies) as well as a real western, only starring children instead of adults (Big City). A new section called ALE KINO! CLIMATE ZONE has been opened to celebrate the Year of Climate and Environment (White Tuft the Little Beaver, Arctic Tale, Misa Mi, and Grizzly Man). There will also be the third edition of Ale Kino! FOOTBALL ZONE (including The Offsiders, Zidane: A 21 Century Portrait and two remarkable classic black-and-white films: Cup Fever, UK 1965 and Go, Go, Paragon!, Poland 1969). To celebrate 60 years of Polish animation, the Festival will feature two interesting animation programmes: FORGOTTEN STORIES, a set of 1947-1966 films prepared together with Kino Polska TV channel and MASTER’S STORIES, films made after 1989, selected by directors of 5 animation studios.

A sack of film gifts is now full. The gifts will be presented at the Festival from 12 December. Everyone will find there something interesting, long-awaited, amazing. You only need to come to the cinema!

A detailed Festival programme will be available on www.alekino.com from 13 November.