Final weekend of WATCH DOCS!

Awards ceremony, special screenings of the winning films, an Invisible Film experience, and an additional screening of “Double Trouble” — this is what we’ve prepared for you this weekend at WATCH DOCS.

Tonight, we will announce the laureates of the 25th WATCH DOCS International Film Festival: Human Rights in Film. Awards will be presented in three competitions: Main Competition, Green Competition, and New Polish Films.
The winning titles will be screened during special screenings on Sunday at Kinoteka:
5:00 PM — Green Competition
6:00 PM — Main Competition
8:00 PM — New Polish Films

We will also present the Henryk Wujec Civic Award — a distinction honoring organizations and individuals working on the front lines, providing direct support to marginalized, endangered, and persecuted people. The award is jointly granted by human rights organizations and civic initiatives in Poland: the Ludwika and Henryk Wujec Civic Fund (the award organizer), Amnesty International Poland, the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights, the National Federation of NGOs, and the association supporting the “Our Ombudsman” initiative. The award is patroned by opposition activist and social advocate Henryk Wujec.

At 10:00 PM, we invite you to celebrate together at the Festival Club — Kulturalna.

On Sunday at 4:00 PM (KINOMUZEUM), together with the Kino Dostępne Foundation, we invite you to a unique event: Invisible Film - a screening of the French short documentary “If You Don't like it, Look Away!”. During this screening, the image will be replaced by audio description — a narrative describing characters’ actions, space, and body language, created to allow blind and partially sighted audiences to fully experience the film, follow the story, and feel the emotional tension of each scene. Audio description here functions as a fully autonomous and equal layer of the film.
Although the event was conceived with sighted audiences in mind — as an opportunity to experience cinema by reversing the usual hierarchy of senses — blind and visually impaired viewers are warmly invited, as the screening is fully accessible and tailored to their needs.

Due to overwhelming interest in “Double Trouble,” we’ve added an extra screening on Sunday at 8:00 PM at Kino Muranów. The film tells the story of a friendship between women living in a fading Polish village in the Romanian Carpathians. This nostalgic portrait of a vanishing world sparkles with understated humor and captivating cinematography, capturing the unique beauty of the Carpathian foothills.

See you at the cinema!