International Festival
of Independent Cinema

25.04 – 4.05.2025, Kraków

ALL IN THE FAMILY

According to the well-known saying, you can’t choose your family (though we will come back to that later). This “basic social unit”, as it is commonly defined, has been an inexhaustible source of cultural and cinematic inspiration for decades. Intricate, dramatic and amusing family stories are dressed up by directors in a variety of conventions and genre schemes. It is hard not to agree with the statement that over the past few years, as a result of technological and cultural changes, the functions, characteristics and faces of the family and the relationships within it have changed fundamentally. From so-called patchwork families to “chosen family” groups, shifts in established gender roles and patterns: the portrayal of the family in films and elsewhere is constantly evolving and adapting to dynamic transformations. In this year’s new Mastercard OFF CAMERA section, prepared in cooperation with the SEXEDPL Foundation established by Anja Rubik, we look at new family formations. Ones no longer necessarily defined by blood ties and biological kinship. By following the filmmakers and protagonists of the films shown there, viewers will have a unique opportunity to discover new, often surprising types of family relationships and to verify their own ideas and beliefs about the functions and shapes a family might take.

The partners of section are SEXEDPL and Vogue.

Drifter

DRIFTER

Dir.: Hannes Hirsch

2023, 79 min.

Other People’s Children

LES INFANTS DES AUTRES

Dir.: Rebecca Zlotowski

2022, 103 min.

The Uncle

STRIC

Dir.: David Kapac, Andrija Mardešić

2022, 104 min.

For My Country

POUR LA FRANCE

Dir.: Rachid Hami

2022, 103 min.

Soft

Soft

Dir.: Joseph Amenta

2022, 87 min.

Winter Boy

LA LYCÉEN

Dir.: Christophe Honoré

2022, 124 min.

Harka

HARKA

Dir.: Lotfy Nathan

2022, 87 min.

The Cake Dynasty

KAGEFABRIKKEN

Dir.: Christian Lollike

2022, 109 min.

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