15.06.2023
Over 144 thousand people took part in the jubilee 20th edition of the Millennium Docs Against Gravity festival!
The jubilee edition of MDAG, the largest film festival in Poland, whose patron is Bank Millennium, attracted a record number of documentary film fans. In total, as many as 144,483 people took part in both parts of the festival - cinema and online. This is more than six thousand people more than in 2022.
Artur Liebhart, director and founder of the festival, conveyed a huge thank you to Bank Millennium, which has been supporting MDAG consistently for 18 years.
The cinema part of the 20th edition of the festival, which took place in eight cities - Warsaw, Wrocław, Gdynia, Poznań, Katowice, Łódź, Bydgoszcz and Lublin - gathered 89,223 people. The on-line part was attended in total by 55 260 viewers.
During the 20th MDAG close to 190 of the best documentaries from around the world, both short and full-length, were presented. On top of that there were also dozens of additional events – both in cinemas and online. Workshops, discussions and psychological duty hours as part of the Safe Space, VR section and exhibitions of posters and drawings in festival cinema spaces, anniversary screenings of 20 films for the 20th anniversary of Millennium Docs Against Gravity, new sections and non-standard accompanying events, such as dance workshops of drag show - are just some of the novelties presented during the 20th edition of the festival.
During the 20th MDAG, 22 film awards were presented, including the Grand Prix – the Bank Millennium Award for the film "Apolonia, Apolonia" by Lea Glob – a story created over 13 years about an artist trying to succeed in the world of art.
The films that are the most popular will hit cinemas after the festival - "All The Beauty and The Bloodshed" (June 16), "After Work" (August 4), “Smoke Sauna Sisterhood" (November 10) and “Whale Nation" in December.
The dates of the next i.e. 21st edition of Millennium Docs Against Gravity are already known – the cinema part will be held on 10-19 May, while the online part will be offered from 21 May until 3 June 2024.