Programme

Vernissage of Julita Kalin's artistic puppets exhibition

Julove dolls were created out of a love for minimalism and a longing for the times when the toy was an exclusive and durable item; a friend who took children to the world of their imaginations.

Each doll is different: cheerful, feisty, similar to, or completely different from the person it is intended for.

Animator - awarded international films

I am the promise of adventure, an exciting journey into the unknown. You don't know what awaits you. Get away from the gray reality and sail with me to a better place, where it is more pleasant, where you can and feel more. Relax. Don't worry about anything. I will make your innermost dreams come true. What do you want? Relief? Freedom? Forces? I'll give it all to you, just grab me, squeeze me, take me home. Let's lose ourselves together. Cin cin! For love! For us!

Animator - awarded Polish films

Stop. Cut. Time to change the perspective, don't you think? Stand aside and look at the reality like you have never looked before. "Podmieniec" is a story about being different, which isn't always something easily accepted, even though it is a major part of the world that surrounds us.

According to legends, the titular character is a child of bogins, mamuns, and diwizons. Slavic demons snatching babies right from their cribs, giving their own offsprings in exchange. „You think it's in there?”, „Let's get it!”, „Kill the monster!” - Doesn't it sound familiar?

„Plastic Heroes“ is a surprising, funny and fast paced collage of images from war, made entirely of “ready made” children's toys.

Violence, desire, hate and fear are put on the table as the so called 'naive' children toys are brought to life, and the innocence of child's play encounters the bleeding reality of adult war.

Combining a variety of object manipulation techniques, video and acting „Plastic Heroes“ manages to be funny and painful at the same time, and to deal with hard issues while giving the audience a wild and refreshing puppetry experience.

The story of the penetration of the chicken coop Fox, playing the cello Serenade. His appearance forever changes the constant (sometimes to nausea) course of life of the Rooster and the harem of three chickens: Blonde, Brunette and Red...

(It is recommended to read the play before watching)

The performance tells about the dilemmas of Andy - a junior clerk at the Office of Immigration and Naturalization (IND) - resulting from the contradiction between his own beliefs and a sense of duty.

The performance is based on Dr. Mai Hertoghs' doctoral dissertation on the Dutch asylum procedure. Fragments of the doctoral dissertation served as the basis for the story by writer Christine Otten.

The performance tells about running away from oneself and confronting one's own mortality, regret and dreams when this escape is complete.

The protagonist is a modern girl, ten-year-old Zosia, who lives in Łódź's Bałuty district. The child spends her vacation at home under the care of eccentric aunt Rose and begins to explore the city from a different perspective, thanks to a strange friendship with her new friend, Rutka. The new playmate is a messenger from a world that no longer exists - thanks to her, the protagonist and the spectators will experience an emotional journey into the past.

The story of Zosia's friendship with Rutka encourages empathy and a peer review of her peers from other times like in a mirror. Approaching her experience forces the redefinition of various concepts, such as fear or a sense of loneliness.

Did God see that everything He created was very good?

It would have been if the first woman had not broken the prohibition: tempted by the serpent, she reached for the forbidden fruit from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thus bringing on all mankind, especially women, a series of punishments and misfortunes.

The three Archangels: Michael, Gabriel and Raphael are trying to change the course of events and give biblical Eve a chance to change her mind by presenting her stories of women from the Bible, generations after her.

The family of Lupitina, a little Mexican girl, is getting ready to celebrate All Soul’s Day, which in local culture is a colourful and joyful holiday, a meeting of death and life. The living make merry together with the departed, with whom they converse and sing their favourite songs, and for whom they prepare their beloved meals. The magical, extremely sincere, and lively spectacle by Dora Bouzková is addressed to the youngest audience and told in the language of the child.

In the future, robots coexisted with human beings. The world moved on and the robots did their job helping people, until they began to think for themselves. The government was not happy with this, and ordered to lock up and destroy all the robots on the planet. And so the robots were almost extinct. Almost. One day, Clara, a girl in a wheelchair, goes a long way from her home and arrives at a concentration camp.