For the first time this year, first prize in the Polish Feature Films Contest at the 9th Netia OFF CAMERA festival in Kraków will be known as Kulczyk Foundation Award. I am very honored to be the head of this social organization. Most Polish films touch upon difficult social issues and I see them from the perspective of a social investment. And this is what our Foundation does: it uses the assistance provided to build social change.
Instead of playing video games for hours, middle school student Aleksy Kielak teaches seniors how to use computers to make their lives easier. He created the course on his own and teaches it for free. In the afternoons, you can find him at the public library in Warsaw’s Rembertów, where he does volunteer work. He also often helps out classmates with their homework.
The last episode of ‘The Domino Effect’ focuses on the Wasilewski family, who left their home in Donbas, Ukraine, to escape the war and who have now come to the center in Rybaki. Dzień Dobry TVN features Hanna, Wadim, Sonia, and Stefania Wasilewski talking about their life in Poland and the adaptation process.
This country badly craves normality, and yet it is still debilitated by war. Ukraine: our neighbour whose tragedy has unfolded before the eyes of the world. Already, the world’s attention has shifted to other topics and places. This episode of ‘The Domino Effect’ is especially touching.