The film roadshow in Poland started in Gdynia at the Opener festival. Subsequent stops will be Podlasie SlowFest in Supraśl and Slot Art Festival in Lubiąż. Millennium Docs Against Gravity will also visit three film festivals: Dwa Brzegi in Kazimierz Dolny, T-Mobile Nowe Horyzonty in Wrocław and in Festiwal Filmów Skandynawskich in Darłowo. A documentary part, as every year, will also be included in the agenda of Letnia Akademia Filmowa in Zwierzyniec.

Iwona Jarzębska, Director of Public Relations Department in Bank Millennium, which is the title sponsor of Millennium Docs Against Gravity, speaks about the festival: Millennium Docs Against Gravity is a very renowned and appreciated nationwide cultural event, with excellent repertoire. For Bank Millennium the values, which the festival represents, are important: openness, courage and focusing on debates about subjects, which are important for people today and also for future generations. We are glad that the festival films have been included in agendas of local events organised in small towns, where there are often no cinemas and access to cinematic art is limited..

The festival audience will have the opportunity to see i.a. the film Ostatni w Aleppo, which received as many as four awards at the 14th Millennium Docs Against Gravity Festival, including the Grand Prix – Bank Millennium’s Award, Warsaw Documentary Award from the audience, Gdynia Grand Prix and Art Doc Award Bydgoszcz as well as a number of awards worldwide, including the Best Documentary Film Award at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. Agendas of the festivals will also feature the latest greatest documentary films, including the Academy Award Nominee I Am Not Your Negro by Raoul Peck as well as Sergei Loznitsa’s Austerlitz. Documentaries by Polish authors will also be shown: Nawet nie wiesz jak bardzo cię kocham (You don’t even know how much I love you) by Paweł Łoziński, Zud by Marta Minorowicz or 21xNowy Jork (21xNew York) by Paweł Stasik.

Bank Millennium has been a partner of Millennium Docs Against Gravity for 12 years now. In 2016 it became the festival’s title sponsor.