Summer Cinema: Double Trouble, dir. Emilia Śniegoska
WATCH DOCS at the Komuna Warszawa
Duration: 70 minutes
Tickets: free entry / If it rains, we'll move inside
Friendship that moves mountains.
A tender story of friendship between two women living in a fading Polish village in the Romanian Carpathians. Hanka and Bronka have buried their husbands, and their children have long since left for better lives abroad. Independent and self-reliant, they radiate resilience and humor even as their world inexorably fades into the past. What remains are memories of times that will never return and the strength they find in facing everyday struggles together. This nostalgic portrait of a vanishing world glows with unpretentious warmth and stunning visuals that capture the quiet beauty of the Carpathian foothills. With an eye for detail, the director crafts a moving meditation on memory, friendship, and the passage of time. By showing people who can be everything to each other, she encourages us to re-evaluate our priorities and reconsider reality.
Double Trouble (Kumotry), dir. Emilia Śniegoska, 70′ 2025 Poland, Germany
About the festival
WATCH DOCS is one of the largest human rights film events in the world presenting documentaries, in which commitment to individual rights is combined with film art.
Each year, the festival features over fifty world-class films. The festival in Warsaw, a travelling festival in over thirty Polish cities, and an online festival gather over 100,000 viewers combined. WATCH DOCS is the oldest documentary film festival in Warsaw – the first edition of the festival took place in 2001.
WATCH DOCS festival is where every year you can watch dozens of premiere screenings and participate in several meetings with world-renowned documentary filmmakers. It is here that new films by such filmmakers as Errol Morris, Raymond Depardon, Kim Longinotto, Avi Mograbi or Alex Gibney had their Polish premieres. Both legendary documentary filmmakers like Frederick Wiseman and younger generation directors including Sean McAllister, Jean-Gabriel Periot, Barak Heymann or Maria Ramos led their master classes at WATCH DOCS festival.
Co-financing
The event is co-financed by the City of Warsaw as part of the project Komuna Warszawa – Social Institution of Culture.
