INDEPENDENT CINEMA COMPETITION
BEAVERS
Year: 2013
Directed by Hubert Gotkowski
90 minutes
ABOUT THE FILM:
The plot focuces on Marcin, who –after his return from Ireland – decides to change his life, simply by…finishing it. At the very last moment the most joyful recollections come back to him and he wants to revive them, as well as the high school band. But Marcin is unaware of the fact that he disturbed Kosiarz, who also was going to change his „life”…
ABOUT THE DIRECTOR:
The graduate of the Rzeszow University of Technology, Master of Computer Studies. Together with his high school friends he set up a film group DDN in 2000.
DE FACTO
Year: 2012
Directed by Mathias Mezler
45 minutes
ABOUT THE FILM:
The protagonist’s father disappears into thin air. A long-term partner and a family friend offer his help. As the story unfolds, the hero discovers that his father led a double working life and the aforementioned partner may know something about the causes of the disappearance.
ABOUT THE DIRECTOR:
Cultural Studies Graduate School of Humanities and Journalism in Poznan and postgraduate criminology Security Academy in Poznan. He has won numerous prizes and awards for independent film festivals in Poland and abroad. His last three films (Run away, Off, All the best) were presented at the Polish Film Festival, and lived to see the issue of thematic channels (TVP Kultura, Cinema Poland). For nearly six years working as a TV cameraman. Before that, the Television WTK as a camerman and executive producer of REPORT STUDIO WTK. Currently, the operator of TV Polsat Warsaw (working for channel: Polsat News, Polsat Sport). He was also lecturer of the workshop television makers in the School of Humanities and Journalism in Poznan.
SHOWINGS AT OTHER FESTIVALS:
International Independent Feature Film Festival 2012 Warsaw, Zoom Festival Jelenia Góra 2012
FRANEK
Year: 2013
Directed by Bartek Tryzna
6 minutes
ABOUT THE FILM:
The protagonist’s grandmother gives him the lesson which will change his life forever (Franek is only 8 years old). A film about friendship, dreams and everyday life in Podlasie region during the World War II.
ABOUT THE DIRECTOR:
Bartek Tryzna – an amateurish film-maker, pedagogue, keen on books and films, actively participates in the action Podlasie has been in Attack!
SHOWINGS AT OTHER FESTIVALS:
Anteaters Festival 2012
INITIATION
Year: 2013
Directed by Jan Grabowski
9 minutes
ABOUT THE FILM:
Three bored teenagers from well-to-do families create a gang, thus fighting with the monotony and defying social conventions. Franek, constantly striving for his corner and acceptation, wants to join them at all costs…Prior to that he will have to participate in a robbery – an action which will turn the heros’ lives upside down.
ABOUT THE DIRECTOR:
Jan Grabowski – a nineteen-year-old graduate of a high school in Warsaw. Brought up in an artistic family what influenced his personality and attitude towards to the world to a great extent. An avid cinema-goer, fond of American genre cinema, inspired mainly by Sam Peckinpah’s and Michael Mann’s works. Although he has been shooting short-feature films since 2010, he finds that „Initiation” is his true debut.
LEON I BARBARA
Year: 2012
Directed by Marcin Mikulski
23 minutes
ABOUT THE FILM:
After years of marriage, Leon and Barbara become estranged. Whereas he is preoccupied with his car (which he no longer uses due to the fear of going out), she takes care of the plants and attends her friends’ funerals. A visit paid by their old acquaintance Ryszard changes their mundane life completely. He offers them a tempting deal – growing marihuana in exchange for a considerable amount of money.
ABOUT THE DIRECTOR
Marcin Mikulski has started his work in the film industry a few years ago. In 2009 he has finished one-year course on film production in Cinecitta (Italy). He works both on profesionnal, commercial projects as well as on independent ones. A film „A backward step”, which he coproduced, was awarded during the International Film Festival In One Cut in Gdynia in 2004. In 2010 he produced clips to the songs of Twilite and Żelki bands. One of them qualified for the Film Festival Young Cuts in Montreal and for the United Film Festival in New York. Recently he has produced another two films: „He War” – (Audience Award during the ClipAward Festival, shown during the Independent Film Festival in Gdynia) and „Leon and Barbara”. Now working as a freelancer.
SHOWINGS AT OTHER FESTIVALS:
London City Film Festival, Aubagne Film Festival, Green Bay Film Festival, Ascona Film Festival, Calaveras Film Festival
ONE HOLE
Year: 2012
Directed by Andrzej Szypulski, Agnieszka Cieślicka
10 minutes
ABOUT THE FILM:
A documentary movie produced by the Polish participants of the youth meetings organised at Seliger Lake (Russia).The titular hole is a kind of punishment for those who disobey the strict and absurd rules.
ABOUT THE DIRECTOR:
Andrzej Szypulski. Born in 1982 in Hajnówka. Warsaw University of Technology student. Member of the Student Internet Television TVPW. Completed a course in cinematography at the Academy Multiart in Krakow. Author of numerous video documentaries on the internet. An independent documentary filmmaker. He participated in many film workshops in Poland and aboard. Plain Jane from Podlachia, who live in Warsaw. World explorer.
SHOWINGS AT OTHER FESTIVALS:
RePeFeNe Rybnik 2012, Żubroffka Białystok 2012, Podlasie Attacks 2012, Festiwal Filmów Frapujących Gorzów Wielkopolski 2012, Zoom 2013, Film Festival The Door Gliwice 2013
AWARDS:
II award in the category of amateurs and the audience award at the Festival Film Podlasie Attacks, III prize in the category of amateurs at the festival Żubroffka.
PSYCHO
Year: 2013
Directed by Aleksandra Panisko
11 minutes
ABOUT THE FILM:
Who is a psycho? A lunatic is generalny thought to be strange, violent and unpredictable. This stereotype tells more about the so-called „normal” people than about the mentally-ill. „Psycho” is a documentary film about an artist afflicted with schizophrenia who talks about his life in a very sincere and self-ironical way.
ABOUT THE DIRECTOR:
Aleksandra Panisko is both a director and a screenwriter. She products documentary movies and programmes for TVP Kultura, in 2012 she directed „A guide to art” in cooperation with Zbigniew Libera. She wrote the scripts of „Again behind the bars” and „A trace after mum” (with Marta Dzido). She shot short feature films as well: „Three times mother” (broadcast on Kino Polska), „Dada love”, „Don’t cry, mum” (Audience Award during Quest Europe 1010), „You Good” (Spanish production).
She participated in a talent workshop workshop (Spain, Croatia). Also carries video art (lots of sleep - Special Jury Award at the Festival of Poetry), and a series of Polish Architects "Interior Architect" Graduate Academy of Film and Television and the Interdepartmental Studies in the Humanities (MISH) at the University of Mikołaj Kopernik. Is a member of Film 1 2.
THREE FATHERS
Year: 2012
Directed by Maciej Jankowski
10 minutes
ABOUT THE FILM:
Three friends meditate on the relationships with their fathers. Several scenes present an array of misunderstanding in filial contacts. Will they resemble their fathers in the future? A film shot among the nearest and dearest.
ABOUT THE DIRECTOR:
Self-taught. Student of warsaw cultural studies, which together with friends trying to achieve short films.
WOJNY DOMOWE (CIVIL WARS)
Year: 2012
Directed by Aleksandra Popińska
16 minutes
ABOUT THE FILM:
The film shows one day in the life of many children family - tired but happy parents, drama, conflict, fun that accompany such a group. The film was made in the course Film Nursery School.
ABOUT THE DIRECTOR:
First year student of the cultural studies in Wroclaw, a graduate of the Film School Nursery Andrzej Wajda. From the earliest years of experience in animation, recently tried his hand at documentary cinema.
SHOWINGS AT OTHER FESTIVALS:
Okiem młodych 2012, Dozwolone do 21 2012, Filmowe Zwierciadła 2012, OFF CINEMA 2012, ŻUBROFFKA 2012, ZOOM ZBLIŻENIA 2013, Złote Mrówkojady 2013
AWARDS:
Special award on festival Okiem młodych , special award on festival Dozwolone do 21 , I prize in the amateur category at the festival ŻUBROFFKA
THE RECOLLECTIONS OF LAST SUMMER
Year: 2013
Directed by Kuba Gryżewski, Ivo Krankowski
10 minutes
ABOUT THE FILM:
Warsaw, the mid 80s. During a dead-boring family reunion, Basia unexpectedly meets somebody well-know, though unseen for a long time…
ABOUT THE DIRECTOR:
Kuba Gryżewski - young screenwriter and director from Warsaw. This is a recent graduate director at the Warsaw Film School. Currently trying their hand in the advertising industry and is heavily involved with the idea of the TV series. He founded a collective of video Balloon to the Moon, which records the short form documentaries. Despite the range of interests of his greatest passion is cinema feature films and he is going to spend.
Ivo Krankowski - independent producer and film director. His first short films curly Mass Defect of the team include Kanterowcy, 5 cakes, snapper. In 2008 he produced and directed by Polish-French film Rue de la Source (Time from night to day). In 2010, he directed a short documentary eight stories that did not change the world, praised by critics and audiences including in the U.S., Britain and Israel. He currently works in the Last Moment Production alongside film producer Sasha Harari.
SHOWINGS AT OTHER FESTIVALS:
Short Waves, Golden Anteaters
AWARDS:
Sex in Shorts Award
