We invite you to unique screenings at the Inside Seaside Cinema, where music plays a leading role. Our film guests include Marcin Masecki, Łona, and Gaba Kulka.
From the very beginning, the Inside Seaside Cinema has stood out for its focus on films in which music plays a leading role, whether through artists known from the stage or through unique soundtracks. The screenings are held in a silent cinema format, allowing the audience to fully immerse themselves in the sound and image, experiencing them in the highest quality.
‘This year’s ISS cinema continues the idea of showing music films created by artists known from the scene or those with special soundtracks,’ says Beata Kwiatkowska from Radio 357, who puts together the film programme.
The first two titles are related to the past and present of the Festival. The World’s Dumbest Record by Konrad Kulczyński and Jakub Knera, produced by Agencja Live, the organiser of Inside Seaside, marks a return to the first edition of the festival and the concert by the band Kury, as well as a story about the cult album P.O.L.O.V.I.R.U.S. The fictional story Muse is the long-awaited return of Paweł Pawlikowski, who, in a short, black-and-white, subtle story inspired by silent cinema, tells the story of an artist (Marcin Masecki) and his muse (Małgorzata Bela). The film refers to this year’s edition, as Marcin Masecki will perform on stage and in the cinema.
The programme also includes Adam Łona Zieliński’s Poniedziałek: Paprotka (Monday: Fern) – an ironic commentary on our everyday conversations, which often resemble verbal duels. This bitterly humorous film reveals how a little distance and tenderness can defuse conflicts. At the other end of the emotional spectrum is Olivier Laxe’s Sirât, a Cannes-award-winning drama set against the backdrop of Moroccan raves. It is a poignant story of a father searching for his daughter, and at the same time, an electrifying journey through electronic music, which pulsates like another character in the film.
The programme is rounded off by Jonathan Demme’s Stop Making Sense, a concert film by Talking Heads, which for over three decades has remained one of the most important records of musical energy on screen.
This year’s edition of Cinema at Inside Seaside is a cross-section of various film forms and emotions – from documentary reconstructions and fictional experiments, through social commentary, to cult concerts. They all have one thing in common: music that gives rhythm and meaning to each story.
We will watch and listen to the selected films through headphones, which guarantees a high-quality viewing experience.
PROGRAM
‘The Stupidest Album in the World’ dir. Jakub Knera, Konrad Kulczyński, 2025, 72 min
The film is an absurd, no-holds-barred journey into the heart of darkness of the 1990s, prepared with documentary precision. Released in 1998, ‘P.O.L.O.V.I.R.U.S’ was more than just an album by the band Kury – it was heralded as ‘a top-down mainstream biological weapon to spread the disease of Polish pop’ . Its creators – musicians associated with the Tri-City and Bydgoszcz yass scene (including Ryszard Tymon Tymański, Piotr Pawlak, Jacek Olter, Olaf Deriglasoff, Jerzy Mazzoll, Leszek Możdżer, Grzegorz Nawrocki, Tomasz Gwinciński) – decided to completely transform the existing landscape of Polish song. Guests: Konrad Kulczyński and Jakub Knera
‘Muse’ dir. Paweł Pawlikowski, 2025, 6 min
The director of ‘Ida’ and ‘Cold War’ returns with a new short film, a story about the power of inspiration and the figure of the master. The complicated relationship, typical for the director, has been stripped of colour and reflected by the duo: Małgorzata Bela and Marcin Masecki. The master and his muse, as well as the filmmakers, met on the Greek island of Hydra, where the film was made. References to silent cinema multiply with each frame, deepened by the function of the tapera, known from that era of cinema. Masecki’s character draws our attention to the music in the film, and we will discuss it with the filmmakers. Guests: Małgorzata Bela and Marcin Masecki
‘Monday: Paprotka’, dir. Adam Łona Zieliński, 2025, 15 min
Maestro Adam ‘Łona’ Zieliński switches from a taxi to a successful lawyer’s car, but he still likes to listen to what we have to say to each other. Witnessing a telephone conversation between the lawyer and an enraged client, the director exposes the paradoxes of our communication, which often resembles an aggression-filled verbal fight. However, Zieliński would not be himself if he did not try to convince us that a little cheerful distance is enough for the warring parties to agree on a draw, leave the ring, and talk about flowers that soften manners. Guest: Adam Łona Zieliński
Sirât, dir. Olivier Laxe, 2025, 115 min
Sirât is the most electrifying film of this year’s Cannes Film Festival, where it deservedly won the Jury Prize. The story of a father desperately searching for his daughter at illegal raves in the Moroccan desert is a wild combination of survival thriller, drama, and techno party. Kangding Ray’s music is like another character here, heightening the tension and helping to shake off the rather powerful viewing experience, after which nothing will be the same as before.
Stop Making Sense, directed by Jonathan Demme, 1984, 88 min.
A cult concert film by Talking Heads, directed by Jonathan Demme. The film was made in December 1983, at the height of the band’s career, during the tour promoting their album Speaking in Tongues. Guest: Gaba Kulka
Inside Seaside Festival will take place on 8-9 November in Gdańsk.
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