The 19th edition of Millennium Docs Against Gravity kicks off May 13 running to May 22, before heading online May 24 to June 5. The festival has numerous epicentres, Warsaw, Wroclaw, Gdynia, Poznan, Katowice, Bydgoszcz, Lublin and now – as of 2022 – the film city of Łódź.
Millennium Docs Against Gravity Festival viewers in Warsaw, Wrocław, Gdynia and Poznań will once again have a chance to vote for the best film in the Wyborcza.pl Big Screen Doc Award Competition. 12 captivating and well-crafted films, made to be watched on the big screen, will familiarise the audience with different pop culture phenomena, as well as more serious topics.
Oscar®-nominated filmmakers David France and Tamara Kotevska, Bill Morrison, Teoniki Rożynek and Milenia Fiedler - these are just some of the film and culture industry representatives who will be awarding prizes in competitions held at the 19th Millennium Docs Against Gravity.
The 19th edition of Millennium Docs Against Gravity will begin in just a few days! From today the full schedule of screenings in all festival cities is available at mdag.pl. Ticket pre-sales have also started online at cinemas' websites and at box offices.
The full programme of this year's MDAG, featuring the latest developments in international documentary filmmaking screened in Poland for the first time, is now available at mdag.pl!
The trailer for this year’s edition of the biggest Polish film festival has premiered today on the official Millennium Docs Against Gravity YouTube channel.
We reveal the first titles selected for the Polish Competition at the 19th MDAG!
Gallery: Millennium Docs Against Gravity 2021
Few national cinemas have authored and challenged definitions of nonfiction film more persistently than Polish cinema.
The Online Audience Award goes to the most popular film of the festival's online part.
This was the second time that Millennium Docs Against Gravity Film Festival assumed a hybrid form: after the cinema section, which had taken place in seven Polish cities (Warsaw, Wrocław, Gdynia, Poznań, Katowice, Lublin, and Bydgoszcz) on September 3-12, the online section went live on mdag.pl from September 16 to October 3. The two sections attracted an impressive total of 134 006 attendees.
After the online part of the festival is over, you don't have to stop watching!
VERDICT of the Bydgoszcz ANNEX’s JURY: Magdalena Rucińska, Marek Noniewicz, Janusz Mazur
The online festival starts on September 16 and will last until October 3 at mdag.pl. This is almost 130 of the best documentaries from around the world.
The festival audience in Katowice has decided!
14 films entered the Main Competition of the Millennium Docs Against Gravity Film Festival to vie for the The City of Poznań Freedom Award. The jury decided to award film „Sabaya"!
The jury of the 18th Millennium Docs Against Gravity Film Festival composed of: Andrzej Fidyk, Marta Frej, Anna Steller at a session which was held in Gdynia on 8th September 2021 decided that the winner of the Mayor of Gdynia Award in the amount of PLN 15,000
On September 9, at the Atlantic Cinema in Warsaw, the 18th Millennium Docs Against Gravity Film Festival awards ceremony took place.
This year at our festival several films which are U.S. productions or co-productions will be presented.
This is the last step before the launch of the 18th Millennium Docs Against Gravity on September 3! Starting on August 19, you can purchase single-screening tickets on mdag.pl and in the ticket offices of festival cinemas (during opening hours). The festival portal now offers a program grid featuring both film screenings and additional events of this year’s festival.
Agnieszka Holland, Christian Frei, Zuza Krajewska, Bartek Chaciński – these are just some of the prominent figures of film and culture who will award prizes in all the competitions during the 18th Millennium Docs Against Gravity. Below we would like to present the complete juries of the Warsaw edition of the festival!
All the festival fans have been waiting for this moment! The full programme of this year’s Millennium Docs Against Gravity Festival appeared on the mdag.pl website today. It involves nearly 150 documentary films which represent a great diversity when it comes to the places where they were made as well as forms - among them, there are feature length ones, short film, animations and documentary series. The festival will take place from 3rd to 12th September in seven cities (Warsaw, Wrocław, Gdynia, Poznań, Katowice, Lublin and Bydgoszcz) and then from 16th September do 3rd October online at mdag.pl.
For this year’s Main Competition, we have selected 14 films from all over the world, each one meeting the highest standards of cinematic art.
The Millennium Docs Against Gravity festival has come of age – it celebrates its 18th edition! Once again viewers will be able to watch the best documentary cinema from all around the world. As it already became our tradition, the program includes new thematic sections, connected to subjects that were of particular importance to filmmakers throughout the last year. Below we are introducing selected films from the new sections, two per each.
We had to make the difficult decision to reschedule the festival to September. The 18th—now grown-up—edition of Millennium Docs Against Gravity will take place in September 3-12 in cinemas in Warsaw, Wrocław, Gdynia, Poznań, Katowice, Lublin, and Bydgoszcz, with the online edition taking place between September 16 and October 3.
The Special Award - Remote Culture has been granted by the ‘Polityka’ weekly during Annual Polityka’s Passport Gala for the very first time. The award went to the founder and Millennium Docs Against Gravity Director – Artur Liebhart.
In keeping with the Festival’s trailblazing multi-city format, Museum of the Moving Image is proud to initiate and host the first New York iteration of Millennium Docs Against Gravity.
Histories of Avant-garde Cinema is a comprehensive look at the main trends in cinematic avant-garde, which had shaped the history of cinema and had a significant impact on the history of art from the 1920s to the 21st century.
On December 18 we’re launching VOD.MDAG.PL: a year-round streaming platform showcasing the best documentaries from all over the world, as well as exceptional feature films! Additional materials will make this a unique place for everyone to better understand the world around us—with tenderness.
The call for submissions to the 18th Millennium Docs Against Gravity Film Festival is now open. The 18th Millennium Docs Against Gravity Film Festival will take place on May 14-23, 2021 in Warsaw, Wrocław, Gdynia, Katowice, Lublin, Bydgoszcz and Poznan. Additionally there will be an online version of the festival on May 27 - June 13, 2021.
65 000 people saw our films in cinemas (at over 1300 screenings) while 101 000 viewers participated online. This year’s program comprised 160 films (of which 149 were screened in cinemas and 107 were available offline).
A prestigious „Variety" magazine piublished a piece about our festival! Director of the festival Artur Liebhart said a few words about our mission for English speaking readers.
65 000 people in seven Polish cities—Warsaw, Wrocław, Gdynia, Poznań, Katowice, Bydgoszcz, and Lublin—attended documentary screenings and associated events at the Millennium Docs Against Gravity Film Festival. Despite this year’s challenging conditions, rescheduling from May to September, and 50% restrictions on screening room seating capacity, our audience bravely took to cinemas to enjoy the best documentaries from all over the world. And the festival isn’t over yet—its online edition will take place between September 19 and October 4.
Last Thursday, September 17, the final winners of the 17th Millennium Docs Against Gravity Film Festival were announced at the award ceremony in Gdynia.
On 10 September, at Teatr Studio in Warsaw, the 17th Millennium Docs Against Gravity Film Festival awards ceremony took place. But it did not mark the end of the 17th edition of the biggest celebration of documentary cinema in Poland – we still have a weekend filled with exciting films and events to look forward to in Warsaw, Wroclaw, Katowice, Poznan, Bydgoszcz, and Lublin. In Gdynia, the festival ends on 18 September. Online edition (films available on mdag.pl): 19 September - 4 October.
The festival will take place in Warsaw, Wrocław, Katowice, Poznań, Lublin and Bydgoszcz between September 4th and 13th and in Gdynia between September 9th and 18th.
A full lineup of films in the movie theatre section has been published today on the festival website mdag.pl with nearly 150 of the best documentaries from around the world. All the trailers have been made available on the festival's YouTube channel!
This is happening in Europe in XXI century!
This year, for the first time, the Millennium Docs Against Gravity Festival will host a special section called The Laws of Metaphysics.
The 2020 Main Competition showcases 13 exceptional films; 7 of their directors are male and 8 are female.
The press conference of the 17th Millennium Docs Against Gravity revealed the biggest hits of this year’s festival
1. As one of the biggest documentary film festivals in the world we condemn the killing of George Floyd, a black citizen of the United States of America. 2. The death of George Floyd is not an isolated issue—it is the result of years of oppression: from slavery through Jim Crow to the institutional racism of today.
Docs Against Isolation, an online event commenced on Friday, May 8, and held by the crew of the Millennium Docs Against Gravity Film Festival, ended on Sunday, May 17. The event attracted a whopping 16,500 participants and followers, sparking enthusiasm among the viewers—both MDAG regulars and brand-new fans. Our audience could watch movies from past editions of the festival, attend meetings with creators and experts, participate in workshops, listen to concerts, DJ sets, and lectures, as well as enter contests—all of it online.
“The Wall of Shadows” (“Ściana cieni”) – Eliza Kubarska and Monika Braid’s latest film – will compete for the main prize at the biggest documentary film festival in North America – the Hot Docs in Toronto! The film was selected for the main competition (International Spectrum) as one of ten titles out over three thousand submissions.
Millennium Docs Against Gravity is a festival which always places its viewers at the helm. Thus, we feel the urge to be both responsible and reasonable. Each year, we are visited by guests from around the world, we discuss with our spectators about documentary cinema and we broaden the horizons of our knowledge about the reality surrounding us. We cannot be mere bystanders watching as this reality unravels. It would be highly irresponsible in the light of governmental recommendations and the dynamics of the pandemic if we were to endanger our audience and guests by exposing them to a possible contact with the coronavirus. With regards to the abovementioned, after a period of intense consultations and meticulous analysis of the situation, we have decided to postpone the 17th edition of the Millennium Docs Against Gravity Film Festival from May to September. The festival will be held from the 4th to the 13th of September 2020 in Warsaw, Wroclaw, Katowice, Poznan and Bydgoszcz. We will announce the festival dates in Gdynia as soon as possibile.
The Festival is going to reach yet another city and we already know the first hits of the Poznań edition of MDAG! The opening night film will be Boris Benjamin Bertram’s Photographer of War: its protagonist, acclaimed war photojournalist Jan Grarup, will meet with the Poznań audience on the opening night!
Eminent Polish director Paweł Pawlikowski, recipient of a Palme d’Or and an Oscar® for Ida, will be presiding over the jury of the Main Competition at Poland’s biggest documentary film festival, to be held in six Polish cities on May 8-24, 2020.
May is particularly important for us because that is when we get to meet you during our festival screenings. However we continue to work throughout the year, organizing film cycles to promote education and important social issues. They appear in various cities, giving a wide audience the opportunity to see festival (and not just festival) hits.
For the fourth time now, we have turned out to be the best! This time, we have received the Polish Film Institute Award for the Distribution of a Polish Film, namely for “The Prince and the Dybbuk” by Elwira Niewiera and Piotr Rosołowski. The film also took the award for Best Poster.
The call for submissions to the 17th Millennium Docs Against Gravity Film Festival is now open. The 17th Millennium Docs Against Gravity Film Festival will take place on May 8-22 in Warsaw, Wrocław, Gdynia, Katowice, Lublin and Bydgoszcz.
Millennium Docs Against Gravity made it to MovieMaker Magazine’s list of 25 Coolest Film Festivals in the World!
Over 92 000 people in six Polish cities – Warsaw, Wrocław, Gdynia, Katowice, Bydgoszcz, and Lublin – have attended documentary film screenings and associated festival events. Join us at the next biggest celebration of documentary filmmaking in Poland! the 17th Millennium Docs Against Gravity Film Festival will take place on May 8-22, 2020.
More than 92 000 people participated in the 16th Millennium Docs Against Gravity Film Festival – a 52% increase from last year’s numbers. Documentary cinema was never this popular in Poland!
The jury gave the Award of the President of the City of Gdynia and its accompanying PLN 15 000 to “Honeyland” by Lyubomir Stefanov and Tamara Kotevska. The “Co Jest Grane 24” Readers’ Award went to “#Female Pleasure”.
The audience of the Millennium Docs Against Gravity Film Festival have picked their favorite film and given it the people’s choice award known as the Documentary Warsaw Award. It is accompanied by a prize of EUR 2000, funded by the City of Warsaw. All the films screened during the Festival were eligible to win. Every viewer was able to vote and thus become a juror of the Millennium Docs Against Gravity Film Festival!
The jury of the Main Competition of the 16th Millennium Docs Against Gravity Film Festival in Bydgoszcz consisting of: Justyna Mazur, Emilia Walczak, and Mateusz Buława, having familiarized themselves with 13 competition entries, decided to give the Bydgoszcz ART.DOC Award of the 16th Millennium Docs Against Gravity Film Festival and its accompanying EUR 1500 to… Tamara Kotevska and Lyubomir Stefanov for the film “Honeyland”! The film had earlier received the Silesian Grand Prix – the Award of the Marshall of the Silesian Voivodeship, and the festival’s top honor – the Bank Millennium Award.
We have learned the winners of the Katowice edition of the 16th Millennium Docs Against Gravity festival! The jury gave the Award of the Marshall of the Silesian Voivodeship and its accompanying EUR 3000 prize to “Honeyland” by Lyubomir Stefanov and Tamara Kotevska. The film had earlier claimed the festival’s top honor – the Bank Millennium Award.
We have learned the winners of the 16th edition of Millennium Docs Against Gravity! The jury has given the Award of the Marshall of the Lower Silesian Voivodeship and its accompanying EUR 3000 prize to the film “The Proposal” by Jill Magid. Paweł Ziemilski’s “In Touch” received a Special Mention.
On 16 May, at Teatr Studio in Warsaw, the 16th Millennium Docs Against Gravity Film Festival awards ceremony took place. But it did not mark the end of the 16th edition of the biggest celebration of documentary cinema in Poland – we still have a weekend filled with exciting films and events to look forward to in Warsaw, Wrocław, Katowice, Bydgoszcz, and Lublin. In Gdynia, the festival ends on 24 May.
