Summer Time Festival

Czas Letni [Summer Time] is a new music & film festival created with the idea of combining free time and the city, entertainment and culture, nature and education, people and space into a coherent whole. Czas Letni will bring quality cinema and alternative music to unique places in the Poznań area, stimulating exploration and rediscovery. Czas Letni is a space of comfort and collectivization, accessible to all and aimed at anyone who wants to make the summer spent in the city a time of active and productive leisure.

Czas Letni Festival is a project by the Ad Arte Foundation, which has been successfully animating culture in Poznań and Greater Poland for 20 years. The motto of this year’s 15th edition of Short Waves Festival – the largest event organized by the Foundation – is „Rethink/Rebuild,” meaning openness to change, new concepts and a wish to co-create them. Czas Letni, an event motivated by urbanity, shaped by space and wishing to reinterpret it, is also part of this change.

On the program:

Film screenings

Urban View Competition – international short cinema in various genres and shades, dedicated to urban and architectural themes, previously a part of Short Waves Festival,
 
Set 1 – Public Reorder
 
➔ Municipal Relaxation Module / Matthew Rankin / Canada 2022 / fiction/ experimental/ 6’
➔ Zigipouse (Smoke Break) / Alan Sahin / Switzerland 2021 / documentary / 10’
➔ Fantoomwijk / Ravi Sandberg / the Netherlands 2023 / documentary /14’
➔ Iizuna Fair / Sumito Sakakibara / Japan 2021 / animation / 11’
➔ Phase II / Kelly Sears / United States 2022 / fiction, experimental/ 7’
➔ Menagerie / Jack Grey / United States 2022 / animation / 5’
➔ Green Space / Jamie Fraser / United Kingdom 2022 / fiction/ 21’
 
Set 2 – What is home?
 
➔ It’s a Date / Nadia Parfan / United Kingdom/Ukraine 2023 / fiction /6’
➔ Tempo Home / Kamil Bembnista / Poland 2022 / documentary / 20’
➔ YUtopia / Haris Salihovic / United Kingdom, Bosnia-Herzegovina 2022 / documentary, experimental / 5’
➔ The Fruit Tree / Isabelle Tollenaere / Belgium 2022 / documentary / 15’
➔ Lockdown Dreamscape / Nicolas Gebbe / Germany 2022 / animation / 7’
➔ Troika / Robert Mentov, Karl Kai / Canada 2023 / fiction / 20’

Random Garden Cinema – screenings in outdoor locations of various Poznań neighborhoods, the program of each screening will be prepared in cooperation with renowned Polish film festivals
 
Random Garden Cinema: Short Waves Festival selection

  • Sierra / Sander Joon / Latvia / 2022 / animation / 15′
  • Eyes on the Road / Stephanie Kolk / The Netherlands / 2019 / fiction / 17′
  • The Marvelous Misadventures of the Stone Lady / Gabriel Abrantes / France, Portugal / 2019 / fiction / 20′
  • Look Up / Hector Francisco Silva Nuñez / Chile / 2019 / fiction / 8′

Random Garden Cinema – Nowy Plan Festival selection

Two episodes of Domokrążcy series. 

Random Garden Cinema – Animator selection

  • Loop / Pablo Polledri / Spain / 2021 / 8′
  • Silent Tales / Simone Angelini / Italy / 2020 / 4’35”
  • Five Minutes Older / Sara Szymańska / Poland / 2021 / 5’57”
  • MIND MY MIND / Floor Adams / Netherlands / 2019 / 29’40”
  • My Year of Dicks (Episode 1) / Sara Gunnarsdóttir / USA / 2022 / 5′
  • Poorly Drawn Lines – Episode 1: Bathroom Emergency / Matt Thompson / USA / 2021 / 11′

➔ Long Story Short – screenings combining famous feature-length titles of the season, which will be preceded by corresponding short films
 
Screening 1 – „Triangle of Sadness” + „All Inclusive”

Screening 2 – „Call Me By Your Name” + „The Summer and All the Rest”

Music events

➔ open-air concerts corresponding to their locales, the theme of the festival and the summer time; through music we want to introduce a state of relaxation, give the opportunity to draw positive energy from the summer in the city
➔ DJ sets and club nights created by talented and acclaimed collectives from Poland, Ukraine and Belarus in locations well-liked by Poznań citizens

Accompanying events

➔ live podcasts – conversations with interesting guests, experts in their fields, esteemed culture creators, artists, researchers, urban planners
➔ architectural walks – introducing previously hidden stories, meanings located in the spaces of Poznań
➔ field recording workshops – you will hear and record the finest details that both the city and the natural world have to offer us
 

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