Wrocław From Dawn Till Dusk

The World From Dawn Till Dusk is an educational film project that has been implemented in different cities around the world: in Moscow, Kyiv, Minsk, Beijing, and Tokyo in 2011; in Tbilisi, Chisinau, Yerevan, and Bydgoszcz in 2013; in Baku, Istanbul, and Calcutta in 2014; and in Havana and Wrocław in 2015. The project involves workshops for film students. Under the supervision of Polish professors, the students work together on a collection of short documentaries with the city as the protagonist. The resulting films provide different portraits of those cities.

Wrocław is a city of many faces. Formerly the German city of Breslau, Wrocław became the postwar home for those repatriated from Lviv, and it is currently the European Capital of Culture. We see the city from different points of view. At times, we see the perspective of foreigners (including citizens of Ukraine, Belarus, Switzerland, Israel, and Palestine), while at other times, we hear what locals have to say. We spend a special day there, the anniversary of Poland's independence. The slogan for the event is A City of Meetings which sets the tone for this event. Some people meet at the zoo; others on the banks of the Oder River, fishing or cheering on their children during regattas; while still others meet at the legendary bar Miś. The "word" in its different forms is what guides us around the city: the street singing of lovers and others taking part in the Independence March, a neon glow, the gestures of the deaf, the cries of monkeys, and, above all, in the form of the voice of Wrocław radio, which makes witty comments on the reality frequently shown in what is frequently a funhouse mirror.

tutors: MiJacel Bławut, Paweł Łoziński, Maciej J. Drygas

students attended the workshop: Alisa Kovalenko, Liubov Durakova, Maksim Shved, Lyubov Zemtsova, Mohammed Almughanni, Mark Wegner, Mo Tan, Eri Mizutani, Alicia Devaux, Mey Shuxuan, Sandro Wysocki, Sergey Lysenko, Arjun Talwar, Andrea Guizar, Marek Pietkiewicz, Weronika Kuta, Barbara Bielecka, Aleksandra Wysocka, Kamil Łohunko, Arek Torski, Patrycja Stachów, Patryk Gryniewicz, Anna Streczeń, Zuzanna Płaczek, Monika Urbańczyk, Tomasz Musiał, Bartłomiej Przybylski, Magda Slusarczyk, Piotr Spigiel, Karolina Górska, Marcin Cudo, Maciej Janik