
International Premiere
A period of rapid modernization in Poland in the 1990s brought with it anxiety and fears inflicted by hegemonic order and a complete disregard for the social costs or traumatic after-effects.
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MODES 1
Visions of dark impulses are given the spotlight and invite an opportunity to reflect on the personal in relation to the political. From Congo to China, and the Philippines to Poland, the end is nigh.
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Dancing in the Dust
The debut feature from the award-winning writer-director of A Separation and A Hero is an original morality tale about a passionate young man who foolishly decides that hunting snakes in the desert is the most expedient route to paying off his debts.
Credits
Producer
Dominik Ritszel
ANIM
Dominik Ritszel
Editor
Dominik Ritszel
Director

Dominik Ritszel
Dominik Ritszel lives in Katowice, Poland, and works with film, video installations, and objects. He holds a doctoral degree from the Academy of Fine Arts in Katowice. He was the recipient of the Young European Artist Trieste Contemporanea Award 2015 and his film The Earth Will Swallow it All (2021) won the Polish Experimental Film Competition category at the Short Waves Festival.