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Film still from THE BALCONY MOVIE. View from a balcony on the street, a woman with a dog and stroller looks up.

Thu 23.06.
20:00

  • Director

    Paweł Łoziński

  • Poland / 2021
    100 min. / DCP / Original version with German subtitles

  • Original language

    Polish

  • Cinema

    Arsenal 1

    zu den Ticketszu dem Kalender

The idea comes across like an artistic response to Corona restrictions, but actually stems from pre-pandemic times. For a period of two years, Łoziński positioned himself on the balcony of his apartment and observed the people passing in the street below. The set-up is always the same: as soon as passersby enter into his camera’s field of view, Łoziński speaks to them, asks questions, listens, and creates a space for conversations about the big and small things in life, about personal problems, intimate thoughts, their view of the world. An entirely normal Warsaw sidewalk thus becomes a stage for random encounters, a microcosm of Polish society.

Funded by:

  • Logo Minister of State for Culture and the Media