The world premiere of the documentary I Am the Creation of Fiction, Arkadiusz Bartosiak’s portrait of artist, actor, director, manager, and social activist Andrzej Seweryn will open the 64th Krakow Film Festival in Poland.

“How do you truly portray an artist who never stops? One who charges through life and through his art with the force of a tornado? I concluded that there is only one effective method – to let oneself be swept away by this force. To throw oneself into the vortex. I hope that’s exactly what our film is” – confesses the director of the documentary Arkadiusz Bartosiak.

“I have achieved everything I wanted in life,” says the Polish actor Andrzej Seweryn, before taking us on a dynamic journey through the series of professional challenges he continues to tackle with youthful enthusiasm.

“It’s great, energetic cinema, with the camera very close to the protagonist, in various circumstances, showing what an extraordinary actor and a versatile person Seweryn is. Here, we witness a man in the prime of his life, full of passion and self-awareness. Dozens of hours of footage were used to create a fascinating 75-minutes with the Master, who is a flesh-and-blood character” – Krzysztof Gierat, director of the Krakow Film Festival, justifies the choice.

Arkadiusz Bartosiak (born in 1975) is a director and screenwriter of documentary films, short films, and commercials. He graduated in Economics at the University of Warsaw, in Film Directing at the Warsaw Film School, and completed the DokPro program at the Wajda School. He worked as a reporter and foreign correspondent and has written three non-fiction books. He has spent the last three years to working on the documentary I Am the Creation of Fiction.

The 64th Krakow Film Festival will be held in cinemas from May 26 to June 2, and online across Poland on the KFF VOD platform from May 31 to June 16, 2024.