Arek.Mama.Panorama

The Municipal Cultural Center will once again host a screening of a documentary film combined with a conversation with the director. Arek.Mama.Panorama on November 26th on our screen!

Overprotective mom? It is. Silent dad? Also. A creative crisis and a constant feeling of unfulfillment? They are! Arek Parasite really has a knack for it. In order to free himself from the hopeless situation, he decides to go to the Tatras for the first time in his life. There he finds the trail of the largest painting in the history of Poland — monumental (115x16m!) Panorama of the Tatras, lost more than 130 years ago. He decides to find her.

Arek rides his bike through the charming villages of Podhale and climbs the Tatra Mountains. During the search, he struggles with the August sun, a fragile human memory and a faulty tourist stove. As he discovers the next pieces of the puzzle, he learns more and more about the history of years ago, but also about himself. With his mother supervising his every step, a misunderstanding of the art world and his own doubts, does Arek have a chance to achieve something as great as the painting he is looking for? “Arek.Mama.Panorama” is a tender, humorous portrait of a man in the struggle for dreams, in which everyone finds a piece of himself. At some point in life, we are all Arks.

The Polish premiere of the film took place at the largest documentary film festival in Poland — Millennium Docs Against Gravity, in the official selection of the Polish Competition, winning the Distinction of the Studio Cinemas Association.

The guest on the occasion of the screening of the film will be Mikołaj Janik - director and screenwriter, graduate of the Gdynia Film School and documentary filmmaking at the University of Warsaw. Author of several short films presented at more than 70 festivals in Poland and abroad. Winner of 2nd place in the competition “Imagine” and finalist of Papaya Young Directors. “Arek.Mama.Panorama” is his feature-length documentary debut. The film was presented in the Polish Competition and received the Distinction of the Studio Cinemas Association. At the 53rd Iński Film Summer, the film was awarded the Golden Fish Award for Best Polish Film.