For nearly two decades, the Millennium Docs Against Gravity Film Festival has helped to grow and support’s documentary community through an event that takes place simultaneously across seven cities each May. But Artur Liebhart, founder of the country’s largest documentary film festival, insists that this is a year-round effort.
Along with a profitable business in theatrical and TV sales, Liebhart estimates that he has roughly 150 titles on various Polish VOD platforms, along with an “extremely successful educational branch” working with the film faculties of three Polish universities. Roughly 200 titles will be available, comprising both selections from this year’s festival, including the European premiere of Ron Howard’s “Rebuilding Paradise” , and other titles in Against Gravity’s catalog. While Liebhart admits he prefers the theatrical experience and “[doesn’t] embrace the shift to online,” he says the launch of the festival’s VOD portal is “a beginning of a new challenge.”