The 98-minute-long Glass Lips is a film version of Majewski's videoart exhibition "Blood of a Poet" shown in New York's Museum of Modern Art during Berlinale 2007, the Venice Biennale and in many other galleries and museums. Thirty-three impressions, using no dialog, tell a story everyone can read in his or her own way. It's a poet's story about childhood, beauty, trauma and madness. It will be screened Feb. 11.
Paradise Too Far is an 81-minute comedy about Macio, an octogenarian living in a rest home, who resolves to escape and meet his son. By coincidence, a driver and two other residents from the rest home join him in his journey which becomes the fulfilment of a secret dream for each of them. The film is a quasi-documentary because the director cast actual residents of a rest home in Katowice. IT will be screened Feb. 13.
The Berlinale runs Feb. 7-17. The EFM runs concurrently except for Feb. 9-10.