Trains is “a collective portrait of people in 20th century Europe, capturing their hopes, desires, dramas, and tragedies.” One of my favorite parts about the Karlovy Vary Film Festival held in Czechia is that I sometimes get to walk in and watch some particularly obscure, one-of-a-kind, extremely niche films. This year’s intriguing one-of-a-kind discovery is a Polish documentary film titled Trains, also known as Pociagi in Polish, made by Polish filmmaker Maciej Drygas. Years ago at KVIFF (as the festival is known), I caught a documentary film titled simply Star (more info on the film here). The mesmerizing doc is entirely made up of nothing but shots of only the stars borrowed from hundreds movies throughout cinema history. It was a breathtaking cinematic experience, entirely unique, and I knew the minute it was over that I would never be able to find this film again. Trains is similar – it’s another breathtaking cinematic experience, made up of nothing but shots of train footage from the beginning of the 20th century. However, I came out of the film at KVIFF this year more depressed than I did emerging from Star years ago – because it’s about the Holocaust. // Continue Reading ›
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