Agnizka Holland: We are losing the common land found after World War II

“Franz Kafka is a parable and has been felt in different ways,” the Grand Dame Agnizka Holland of Polish cinema said, “Grand Dame of Polish cinema, whose most impressive and esoteric figures, is making waves on the festive biopic festivals circuit.

Echoing Kafka’s concerns about confidence and doubt, the biopic brand wants to separate Kafka from Franz, whose punishment is a colony and a prophet of a totalitarian future, which has been written about two decades before the gas cells, has become a reality, once again, it has become reliable.

Talking to Hindu at the 50th Polish Film Festival at a press conference, where Franz, Poland’s official entry for the 98th Academy Awards, is a major contenders for the top award, Ms. Holland, 74, said the world was struggling with many wars.

“We are losing the normal land that we believed that we found after World War II. Although our faith was shaken by imperialist and totalitarian rule, injustice and inequality, there was still a basis that we believed that we were a starting point to build.

Considering the most meaningful and mysterious line of the film, where Kafka says impatience and apathy lost us, Ms. Holland, describing the expression as the most intelligent in the film, echoed, “The two main sins of humanity were impatient and indifference.”

Asked whether the context of heaven was politically coded in relation to the Israeli-Pilistine conflict, Ms. Holland, born to a Jewish father and a Catholic mother and who spent their early years in Prague, said that he identified with the dilemmas of Kafka and estimated himself.

“Identification is a trap we glue. There is a period when we believe that the true nature of a human being is not associated with the color of their skin, language, or religion. But then a moment comes when people are so lost in wars that they start believing in their identity and reality, and no other reality exist.

He said, “The world is being ruled by demons. Do you want me to name them?”

Ms. Holland said that she explains things in her Jewish and Polish communities, which she is not proud of. “The question is whether their identity is the main crime or if the fear of losing their identity is the main crime.”

A celebration of contemporary and classic polish cinema, the main competition, which has 16 titles, also performed Maikel Quicksky Chopin Chopin!A playful biopic to find out the life of the legendary Polish Pianoist for the social media generation. Other attractive titles included Piotr Domalewski Altar boysCordian Kądziela SalivaWojciech smarzowski My lovely houseAnd maciej sobieszczański’s Brother,

A mild story of adolescent boys questions the hypocrisy of priests and offers its own option for moral rejuvenation, Altar boys The competition is seen as a popular option in the competition to balance the arthouse and commercial appeal.

Artistic director Jona łapińska said, “We are closing half a century of the festival with an extraordinary diverse films. Polish cinema is going through a phase where polls are not participating in theaters adequately to watch films. Therefore, it is considered, the idea that our art house is a cinema and new, and more time for the future.”

(The author is in Gdynia at the invitation of Polish Film Festival and Polish Institute in New Delhi.)