International Festival
of Independent Cinema

Two competitions, twenty films and over PLN 200,000 in the awards pool. Mastercard OFF CAMERA International Festival of Independent Cinema has presented the list of films nominated in the Main Dramatic Competition “Making Way” and the Polish Feature Film Competition.

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Can we live without technology? How does it affect our everyday lives? We can try to find answers to these questions while watching films presented in the “Techno Party” section of Mastercard OFF CAMERA.

Every year, Mastercard OFF CAMERA offers its participants an opportunity to see nearly one hundred films presented in eight themed sections. The International Festival of Independent Cinema in Krakow has just revealed seven more titles in the two sections: “Herstories” and “American Indies”. The films will be screened from 28th April to 7th May in best arthouse cinemas in the capital of Malopolska.

This year’s, already the 16th , edition of the Mastercard OFF CAMERA International Festival of Independent Cinema will visually relate to the “Cinema is the memory of humanity” idea.

The 16th Mastercard OFF CAMERA will feature almost one hundred titles from forty countries, in eight festival sections, which gives over two hundred screenings. It’s time to present the first eight films which the audience will have a chance to see in Krakow cinemas as part of the “Best of Fests” and “It Runs in the Family” sections. Get ready for the May getaway in Krakow. The Festival will be held between 28th April and 7th May 2023.

The 28th of April 2023 is the date we will start the 16th edition of Mastercard OFF CAMERA International Festival of Independent Cinema. Thousands of people in cinemas, film stars from all over the world and professional filmmakers will again be welcomed in Krakow at the turn of April and May. On 1st December 2022, we were pleased to announce the Festival dates and all eight festival sections. Also, the first pool of tickets was released for sale.