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Documentary festival Millennium Docs Against Gravity, running in Poland from Friday to May 19 and online from May 21 to July 3, is in its 21st edition, but its industry section is a relatively recent addition. However, it is growing in size and impact.
The Millennium Docs Against Gravity Festival, taking place in seven cities in Poland from Friday to May 19 and then online from May 21 to July 3, has grown exponentially in the last few years. In fact it is now, as the people behind it proclaim, the largest film festival in Poland.
The 16 outstanding films made by emerging filmmakers competing for this year's Doc Alliance Award have been announced. 8 feature-length and 8 short films are chosen by the programmers of 8 prestigious documentary film festivals, united at the Doc Alliance and representing different European regions and perspectives on the art of documentary filmmaking. Many of the nominated films are discoveries form recent editions of the partner festivals.
In just a few days, the 21st edition of Millennium Docs Against Gravity will begin! Starting today, the full schedule of screenings for all festival cities is available on mdag.pl. Online ticket presale has also started on mdag.pl, cinema websites, and at their box offices. It's the perfect moment to plan your own journey into the world of documentary films. The cinema part of the festival will take place from May 10th to May 19th in seven cities: Warsaw, Wrocław, Gdynia, Katowice, Poznań, Bydgoszcz, and Łódź. The online part will run on mdag.pl from May 21st to June 3rd.
A great celebration of documentary cinema, the 21st Millennium Docs Against Gravity, is fast approaching! The cinema part of the festival will take place from 10 to 19 May in seven cities (Warsaw, Wrocław, Gdynia, Poznań, Katowice, Bydgoszcz, Łódź). The full programme of this year's MDAG, featuring the latest developments in international documentary filmmaking screened in Poland for the first time, is now available at mdag.pl! We invite you to check out the descriptions and trailers of the films.
MDAG Industry project is a unique film industry event that connects Polish filmmakers with foreign festival representatives, distributors, producers, sales agents and contemporary cinema stars. We started in 2021 with a single event, from 2022 we are creating an expanded module of industry events under the banner of MDAG Industry. The MDAG Industry program is being developed in response to the current needs of the audiovisual market, following trends, staying ahead of changes in the market and not being indifferent to innovation.
The Main Competition of the 21st edition of MDAG - 12 films from around the world directed by a total of 10 female and 9 male directors will compete, with a chance to win six awards in six festival cities, including the Grand Prix - Millennium Bank Award.
Trailer of the 21st edition of Millennium Docs Against Gravity has been created for the ninth time by the documentary filmmaker and editor Dorota Proba to the music of Kutiman's "Give It Up". Following this year's theme "In Relation to the World", it showcases various aspects of often complex relationships that connect us to the surrounding reality.
Nine projects have qualified for the Progress Pitching Session organized as part of MDAG Industry.
The motto of the 21st edition of Millennium Docs Against Gravity is 'In relation to the world.' From the poster of the largest Polish film festival, Maria Smolarz, the protagonist of Łukasz Ronduda and Dawid Nickel's film 'Rave,' gazes at the audience. Bartek Bojarczuk, the creative director of the ILLCAT.studio, is the author of this year's visual identity for the festival. The author of the poster photograph is Alicja Lesiak, a photographer who will also be a member of the jury for the Best Cinematography Competition.
Millennium Docs Against Gravity is rapidly approaching. The festival program features documentary winners from Sundance and Berlinale. In the case of Sundance, the previously announced film "A New Kind of Wilderness" by Silje Evensmo Jacobsen, which won the main prize in the international documentary competition, is a beautiful story about life away from civilization. Also, the winner of the American documentary competition, "Porcelain War" by Brendan Bellomo and Slavy Leontyev, will have its Polish premiere at MDAG. From the recently ended Berlinale, programmers brought the winner of the Best Documentary award, "No Other Land" by Rachel Szor, Yuval Abraham, Hamdan Billal, and Basel Adra.
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The largest Polish film festival will take place from May 10th to 19th in eight cities (Warsaw, Wrocław, Gdynia, Poznań, Katowice, Łódź, Bydgoszcz, and Lublin), followed by an online edition from May 21st to June 3rd on mdag.pl. The titular sponsor of the event is Bank Millennium (https://www.bankmillennium.pl/).
Millennium Docs Against Gravity Film Festival is the largest film festival in Poland and one of the largest documentary film festivals in the world. It is the only film festival in Europe which takes place in eight different cities at the same time (Warsaw, Gdynia, Wrocław, Lublin, Bydgoszcz, Katowice, Poznań and Łódź).
The 20th edition of MDAG attracted crowds of documentary cinema fans to theaters and then online! In total, both parts of the festival - in cinemas and online - were attended by a remarkable 144,483 people! That's over six thousand more than in 2022.
We regret to cancel all screenings today (May 15) at the Elektronik Cinema. The shows will take place at a different date, which we will inform you about in the near future. Sorry for the inconvenience!
We know the results of the first Progress Pitching Session at MDAG Industry.
Festival audiences will once again have the opportunity to experience a unique encounter with domestic documentary cinema. There are 11 productions taking part in the Polish Competition with a chance to win three awards – the Best Polish Film Award, the Best Production Award in the Polish Competition presented by the post-production studio Smakjam and the Association of Studio Cinemas Award.
The 20th edition of MDAG, the biggest film festival in Poland, will start in a month! On this occasion, a press conference was held at Warsaw's Kinoteka, where the most important information about the event was announced. The festival will begin in eight Polish cities on 12 May. The festival will last in cinemas until 21 May, and from 23 May to 4 June the online part will be available at mdag.pl.
This year, 12 films have qualified for the Main Competition of the festival, including three Polish productions or co-productions! They will compete not only for the Grand Prix - the Bank Millennium Award but also for local prizes in the other festival cities: the Lower Silesia Grand Prix in Wrocław, the Bydgoszcz ART/DOC Award, the Silesian Voivodeship Audience Award in Katowice, the City of Gdynia Grand Prix and the Freedom Award funded by the City of Poznań.
The anniversary 20th edition of Millennium Docs Against Gravity, the largest Polish film festival, will be held on May 12-21 in cinemas across eight Polish cities (Warsaw, Wrocław, Gdynia, Poznań, Katowice, Łódź, Bydgoszcz and Lublin) and from May 23 to June 4 online at mdag.pl!
MDAG Industry project is a unique film industry event that connects Polish filmmakers with foreign festival representatives, distributors, producers, sales agents and contemporary cinema stars. We started in 2021 with a single event, and in 2022 we created an expanded section of industry events under the name MDAG Industry. This year we have prepared an extensive programme of activities – the next step in the documentary industry's development.
The anniversary 20th edition of MDAG will take place on May 12-21, 2023 in cinemas across eight Polish cities - Warsaw, Wrocław, Gdynia, Poznań, Katowice, Łódź, Bydgoszcz and Lublin as well as online - from May 23 to June 4 on the mdag.pl. The principal patron of the festival is Bank Millennium (www.bankmillennium.pl)
Millennium Docs Against Gravity Film Festival is the largest film festival in Poland and one of the largest documentary film festivals in the world.
On May 19, at the Theater Studio in Warsaw, the 19th Millennium Docs Against Gravity Film Festival awards ceremony took place.
The 19th edition of Millennium Docs Against Gravity kicks off May 13 running to May 22, before heading online May 24 to June 5. The festival has numerous epicentres, Warsaw, Wroclaw, Gdynia, Poznan, Katowice, Bydgoszcz, Lublin and now – as of 2022 – the film city of Łódź.
This year's opening film is a moving and visually spectacular story of a struggle for survival - TERRITORY by Alex Pritz.
Millennium Docs Against Gravity Festival viewers in Warsaw, Wrocław, Gdynia and Poznań will once again have a chance to vote for the best film in the Wyborcza.pl Big Screen Doc Award Competition. 12 captivating and well-crafted films, made to be watched on the big screen, will familiarise the audience with different pop culture phenomena, as well as more serious topics.
Oscar®-nominated filmmakers David France and Tamara Kotevska, Bill Morrison, Teoniki Rożynek and Milenia Fiedler - these are just some of the film and culture industry representatives who will be awarding prizes in competitions held at the 19th Millennium Docs Against Gravity.
The 19th edition of Millennium Docs Against Gravity will begin in just a few days! From today the full schedule of screenings in all festival cities is available at mdag.pl. Ticket pre-sales have also started online at cinemas' websites and at box offices.
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The full programme of this year's MDAG, featuring the latest developments in international documentary filmmaking screened in Poland for the first time, is now available at mdag.pl!
The trailer for this year’s edition of the biggest Polish film festival has premiered today on the official Millennium Docs Against Gravity YouTube channel.
We reveal the first titles selected for the Polish Competition at the 19th MDAG!
Our thoughts and hearts go out to all the people living in Ukraine.
Gallery: Millennium Docs Against Gravity 2021
The 19th Millennium Docs Against Gravity Film Festival will take place on May 13-22, 2022. Additionally there will be an online version of the festival on May 24 - June 5, 2022.
Few national cinemas have authored and challenged definitions of nonfiction film more persistently than Polish cinema.
The Online Audience Award goes to the most popular film of the festival's online part.
This was the second time that Millennium Docs Against Gravity Film Festival assumed a hybrid form: after the cinema section, which had taken place in seven Polish cities (Warsaw, Wrocław, Gdynia, Poznań, Katowice, Lublin, and Bydgoszcz) on September 3-12, the online section went live on mdag.pl from September 16 to October 3. The two sections attracted an impressive total of 134 006 attendees.
After the online part of the festival is over, you don't have to stop watching!
VERDICT of the Bydgoszcz ANNEX’s JURY: Magdalena Rucińska, Marek Noniewicz, Janusz Mazur
The online festival starts on September 16 and will last until October 3 at mdag.pl. This is almost 130 of the best documentaries from around the world.
The festival audience in Katowice has decided!
14 films entered the Main Competition of the Millennium Docs Against Gravity Film Festival to vie for the The City of Poznań Freedom Award. The jury decided to award film „Sabaya"!
The jury of the 18th Millennium Docs Against Gravity Film Festival composed of: Andrzej Fidyk, Marta Frej, Anna Steller at a session which was held in Gdynia on 8th September 2021 decided that the winner of the Mayor of Gdynia Award in the amount of PLN 15,000
On September 9, at the Atlantic Cinema in Warsaw, the 18th Millennium Docs Against Gravity Film Festival awards ceremony took place.
This year at our festival several films which are U.S. productions or co-productions will be presented.
