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Magic of Podlasie – Whisperers
A story about szeptuchy and szeptuni (whisperers), practitioners of folk medicine who carry on the tradition of healing incantations passed down through generations in Podlasie region. It’s a tale of folk ilnesses, healing, magic, and witchcraft, but most of all, of human desires and expectations. In the film, we ask questions that experts, anthropologists, ethnographers,…
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Daughters of Coal
Oliwia, a young woman in her twenties, ventures into a journey through her personal hell. Upholding her family’s deep-rooted mining traditions and encouraged by her mother, she takes a job at a sorting plant affiliated with one of the Silesian coal mines. There, she supervises machinery, sorts industrial waste by hand, and cleans coal dust.…