Programme

Vernissage of the exhibition of puppets by Renata Gołaszewska-Adamczyk and photos of Jolanta Rycerska and Włodek Pawłow

I am fascinated by people and their inner life. Our faces reflect the things we have gone through and are going through. We are able to communicate emotions in non-verbal ways. It is through our inner world that we interface with others. It's a very delicate topic. I give my emotions to my puppets. This is why I never focus on their physicality, but rather on the emotions they express. I don't want them to be beautiful and dressed up, as most people imagine puppets. I want them to be imperfect like we are. Real like we are. And so my puppets have imperfect faces and imperfect personalities. They come from an imperfect world. And this is why they are so real. Because puppets are real beings.

Opening ceremony of the XIV International Festival of Puppet Theatre and Animated Films for Adults "Puppet is a Human too".

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In this performance the creators explore the field of an intimate puppet-object theatre. They found the materials that allow a double glimpse into the theme of power, the objects that enlarge or reduce, draw nearer or distance, hide or reveal the seen.

In this performance the creators explore the field of an intimate puppet-object theatre. They found the materials that allow a double glimpse into the theme of power, the objects that enlarge or reduce, draw nearer or distance, hide or reveal the seen.

An original, theatrical interpretation of the Poet in New York by Federico García Lorca - one of the most famous Spanish writers of the 20^th century in the world. Art directed by the Catalan director, set designer, actor and puppeteer - Joan Baixas, performed by OTLiA actresses, creates a nostalgic and surreal world open to diversity, sensitive to love, suffering and death. A world emotionally and visually rooted in places important to Federico - such as Granada, Havana, New York.

The French spectacle "Unstable Air" ("D’un Air Instable") presents music that comes to life. Its existence, however, will not be derived from classical instruments, but from everyday objects. It is thanks to glass and plastic bottles, metal cans, pipes and even aquarium filters or refrigerator motors that Laurent Bigot - the author and director - will make the animants accompanying him on stage come to life and... start a conversation. How will the fate of the heroes go? Even the author cannot be sure of this, because these items turn out to be clever and unpredictable partners.

The French spectacle "Unstable Air" ("D’un Air Instable") presents music that comes to life. Its existence, however, will not be derived from classical instruments, but from everyday objects. It is thanks to glass and plastic bottles, metal cans, pipes and even aquarium filters or refrigerator motors that Laurent Bigot - the author and director - will make the animants accompanying him on stage come to life and... start a conversation. How will the fate of the heroes go? Even the author cannot be sure of this, because these items turn out to be clever and unpredictable partners.

A surrealistic performance, stretched between black comedy and the theater of the absurd.
In two square meters, the life of all of us will play out - a life that has never been lived...

Joan Baixas, painter and stage director, carries out shows and actions of intense visual content, based on live painting, animation of objects and the projection of images, which explain small contemporary stories.

The French spectacle "Unstable Air" ("D’un Air Instable") presents music that comes to life. Its existence, however, will not be derived from classical instruments, but from everyday objects. It is thanks to glass and plastic bottles, metal cans, pipes and even aquarium filters or refrigerator motors that Laurent Bigot - the author and director - will make the animants accompanying him on stage come to life and... start a conversation. How will the fate of the heroes go? Even the author cannot be sure of this, because these items turn out to be clever and unpredictable partners.

The French spectacle "Unstable Air" ("D’un Air Instable") presents music that comes to life. Its existence, however, will not be derived from classical instruments, but from everyday objects. It is thanks to glass and plastic bottles, metal cans, pipes and even aquarium filters or refrigerator motors that Laurent Bigot - the author and director - will make the animants accompanying him on stage come to life and... start a conversation. How will the fate of the heroes go? Even the author cannot be sure of this, because these items turn out to be clever and unpredictable partners.

A surrealistic performance, stretched between black comedy and the theater of the absurd.
In two square meters, the life of all of us will play out - a life that has never been lived...

A performance that shows a person at the moment of making a life decision. The main character entrusted her entire life to work. This one is almost everything to her. This  work are… boxes. All identical, already well known to her. It turns out that her whole life can be closed in one tiny cardboard box. On the stage, the protagonist will be accompanied by huge amounts of cardboard cubes and - only one - the insistently recurring question: should she live according to the scheme or can she break out of the frame? Follow your own path or follow the beaten but also safe path?

The family of Lupitina, a little Mexican girl, is getting ready to celebrate All Soul's Day, which in local culture is a colourful and joyful holiday, a meeting of death and life. The living make merry together with the departed, with whom they converse and sing their favourite songs, and for whom they prepare their beloved meals.

The family of Lupitina, a little Mexican girl, is getting ready to celebrate All Soul's Day, which in local culture is a colourful and joyful holiday, a meeting of death and life. The living make merry together with the departed, with whom they converse and sing their favourite songs, and for whom they prepare their beloved meals.

So far, the collection of the Puppet Show Department of the Archaeological and Ethnographic Museum in Łódź has more than 7,000 inventory items. Volumes I and II of All Our Dolls, issued on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the establishment of the Department, contain over 7,000 items in the list part. There are photos of theatre projects and puppets in the number of over 1,000. The volumes also include projects and puppets in the field of Polish animated film.

We present the awarded films of International Animated Film Festival Animator in Poznań (2019), in the following categories: international short film and international feature film.

We present the awarded films of International Animated Film Festival Animator in Poznań (2019), in the following categories: international short film and international feature film.

"Odmęt" is a free impression on the adventures of Sinbad the Sailor of the One Thousand and One Nights. These adventures meet the hero before he leavs, and the journey takes place in a world of seemingly worthless objects. The performance is a game with forms, illusion created on faith in the life of objects. All that to learn something about yourself. After all, we can often see that getting lost is finding the right path.

A story of one's mother's love that crushed all possible bounds, create a genius of French literature, win the war… For is there any feeling stronger than one's mother's love?

The production by Jacek Malinowski, full of unexpected twists, with atmospheric music and scenery by Lithuanian artists already at home in Białystok Puppet Theatre (Antanas Jasenka and Giedrė Brastė), is a proposal for the whole family. Everyone, regardless of age, will find something for themselves - from the surprising adventures of the title character, through numerous games with words, to philosophical reflection.

Performance consisting of five quasi-lectures of professor Leszek Kołakowski, illustrated by the animation of sculptures, designed and made by artist sculptors especially for each of the lectures. Short and very accurate arguments, ending with surprising morals and short pieces of music, played on the piano.
Based on parables of the Old Testament interpreted by professor Leszek Kołakowski.

Announcement of the verdict of the Jury and awarding of prizes.