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I
A picture from a hotel room can mean only one thing. Another surfing trip. 7 years ago, out of 365 days in the year, I spent 202 of them in roadside motels. I got rid of all habits. No one and nothing stuck to my skin. The only weight I feel now is a hangover from last night, which I don’t even remember. What will happen if I order that girl a drink, sit down, and say I’ve been looking for her all evening, even though we don’t know each other at all? A new story… will end like the old ones.

II
At least the sun is shining. What am I saying, it’s blazing! And to think that just yesterday, my life was neatly arranged. Dog, boyfriend, house. Yes, yes, the order is correct. I will miss Edmund, my Border Collie, who has been with me for the last 10 years of my uneventful life, more than Damian, whose only real advantage was that he always got up before me and made coffee. 47 missed calls. Does he really think I’ll go back to him? The only thing I’m missing right now is a cold drink.

III
She won’t slip away this time. And to think they’re offering £100,000 for her capture. She seems so unassuming, yet she’s got quite a record. Gun smuggling, two bank robberies, one murder. In my opinion, accidental, but that doesn’t matter now. I’ll go downstairs, draw my gun, aim at her, and if she tries to resist, I’ll shoot.

IV
God, how I hate her. It was her idea to come here. Supposedly to get some fresh air, think about what’s next? What’s next? Nothing, nothing will change! She’s lying there like some queen, sunbathing, while I’m stuck on “home office” from 7:00 to 16:00 because who else will earn the money? In an hour, she’ll come back to the room not to ask how I’m doing, but to grab a new towel and ask me to rub sunscreen on her back. My life in a nutshell for the last 15 years.

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Feature Short

Spektrum – Senior

Competition 1,2

The first edition of the International Competition “1,2” for feature film debuts and second films. It is often through their first feature films that creators break down the doors to the existing reality. The competition includes rebellious titles that stand out with a fresh perspective on cinematic language. The winner will be chosen by the festival audience.

Special sreening

Opening film

The film will be preceded by the opening gala of the 10th Spektrum Film Festival.

Spektrum

Presentation of the most interesting titles of the season, introducing the title Spectrum of what was most important in the last months in artistic cinema. The program will include films shown at this year’s Polish Film Festival in Gdynia, Berlinale and at the International Film Festival in Cannes.

Young Classics

In the Young Classics section, we will look at the filmmakers who delighted the audience of the most important film festivals in the world at the beginning of their careers.

Spektrum – Kids

The part dedicated to the youngest festival viewers.

Open Detention

The festival cooperation with the Detention Center in Świdnica dates back to 2010 and the first edition of the The Youth Perspective Festival. The activities carried out with inmates in the prison ward have gradually evolved from meeting once a year, through regular projections, to the presentation of prisoners’ own prize.

Closing film

The film will be preceded by the Award Ceremony of the 9th Świdnica Film Festival Spektrum.

VHS HELL

Screening with a live narrator

VHS Hell is a collective founded in the Tricity area in 2010 by Krystian Kujda. It focuses on organizing screenings of films distributed in Poland on video cassette in the second half of the 1980s and the first half of the 1990s, as well as collecting, archiving, and publishing materials related to the video era and conducting interviews with distributors, rental shop owners, and film narrators.

The goal of the screenings organized by VHS Hell is to remind audiences of the strangest, most unsuccessful, and curiously fascinating films that could be found in Polish rental shops. Over fourteen years of operation, VHS Hell has held more than 200 screenings and has collaborated with festivals such as New Horizons, the Cult Film Festival, the Film Criticism Festival Kamera Akcja, the Octopus Film Festival, the International Forum of Independent Feature Films Cinemaforum, the Mystic Festival, and Inside Seaside.

Feature Short

The Youth Perspective – Short Fiction competition

The Short Fiction section of the international competition The Youth Perspective includes films not exceeding 30 minutes by artists up to 35 years.

The competition will be judged by a three-person jury composed of filmmakers and film industry representatives, by also by local jury – participants in Occupational Therapy in Mokrzeszów.

The main prize – a statuette and a cash prize
The award of the participants of the Occupational Therapy in Mokrzeszów – Niepełny kadr

Films are presented in two blocks: Block I and Block II

The Youth Perspective – Documentary competition

In the documentary section of the international competition The Youth Perspective take part films that do not exceed 30 minutes by artists up to 35 years.

The competition will be watched by a three-person jury composed of filmmakers and film industry representatives, by also by local jury – inmates in Świdnica Detention Center.

The main prize – a statuette and a cash prize
Prize of inmates in Świdnica Remand Center – Kinematografek

Block I and Block II

The Youth Perspective – Animation competition

The animation section of the international competition The Youth Perspective includes films that do not exceed 30 minutes by artists up to 35 years of age.

The competition will be judged by a three-person jury composed of filmmakers and film industry representatives.

The main prize — a statuette and a cash prize

Block I and Block II

The Youth Perspective – Amateurs competition

The amateur section of the international competition Okiem Młodych includes films not exceeding 30 minutes by filmmakers who are under the age of 21 and who are not participants in film schools. Among the films sent by young filmmakers, 9 titles made it to the selection, including short films, documentaries and animations.

The competition will be judged by a three-person jury composed of filmmakers and film industry representatives, by also by local jury – representatives of the Youth City Council of Świdnica.

Main prize – diploma
Award of the Youth City Council of Świdnica – in-kind prize

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