Anna Zamecka: Guest at Kino Arsenal

11.01.2022 / 19:00 – 23:30
With Anna Zamecka

Writer, director, and producer Anna Zamecka, born 1982 in Warsaw, debuted her documentary feature film KOMUNIA (Communion, Poland 2016) to international acclaim. The film intimately portrays the daily lives of two young people left to their own devices. Communion was shot in just thirty-five days over the course of a year, mostly in a very small apartment near Warsaw. The film has been screened at over 100 international festivals and venues and has garnered more than forty awards.

“In a Neorealist vein, Communion was not created in the cutting room like other observational works,” writes Pamela Cohn in her portrait of the director. “The script served as a scaffold on which to hang the ‘natural’ rhythms of the story (…) This kind of intimate and haunting portrait is an art in itself, and Zamecka has demonstrated a special talent here.” Kino Arsenal will screen Communion on January 11, 2022, with the director in attendance. Following as Director’s Choice will be the chamber drama DARE MO SHIRANAI (Nobody Knows, Japan 2004): in Hirokazu Koreeda’s film, four children abandoned by their mother join together for survival and seek to restore a sense of normalcy to their extraordinary situation.