Kraków Film Festival is one of the oldest film events dedicated to documentary, animated, and short fiction films in Europe. During the 7 festival days, the audience can watch about 250 films from Poland and abroad. Films are presented in competitions and in special sections like retrospectives, thematic cycles, and archive screenings.

The festival is accompanied by ex...

“Colonisers write about flowers… one day, I’ll write about the flowers like we own them.” — Noor Hindi

The flowers, as witnesses to the hands that plucked them. It must have felt strange to them, this touch, this gaze—not admiration, but something else, something cruel. The land itself holds memory of this encounter, still asking: what is this fascination with flowers ...

I’m not an avid reader of philosophy. The closest I’ve come to familiarising myself with the Urtexts of critical inquiry was the summer I read Sophie’s World by Jostein Gaarder: a widely popular coming-of-age novel, in which the titular character Sophie—a Norwegian teenager curious about the origins of the world and her place in it—starts learning about the history of ...

It was my thirteenth summer when I first noticed I was being perceived differently. I had recently bought myself a navy-blue bikini that I thought looked good on me. My theater troupe was organising a one-week excursion to the countryside, where we would spend half of our time practicing for an upcoming performance. The other half we would spend at the beach. Someone had brou...

In the spring of 2024, students at Columbia University, New York, established an encampment on the university’s South Lawn. Students demanded their university divest from the Israeli war machine and civil institutions. Columbia set the precedent, and soon the encampments spread. Not just in the USA, but in Canada, Australia, the UK, France, the Netherlands, Belgium, and Germa...