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Documentary film has equal importance to feature
production in being an integral part of Polish cinema
tradition, thus one of the priorities of the Polish Film Institute
is to further encourage the production of documentary films
and in 2007, the Institute will allocate 4.5 million PLN to this
media genre. Nowadays, documentary cinema largely belongs
to the domain of television where it readily reaches a mass
network audience. The Polish Film Institute however, is
convinced of universal appeal of factual film and puts a
particular emphasis on supporting documentary films which
are primarily intended for cinema release. We wish to restore
Polish documentaries to a place in cinema repertoires that
they occupied in former years, with their power to move, to
disturb and above all to give a constructive and universal
testimony to present times.
With great pleasure we offer you this catalogue of selected
Polish documentary film from the years 2006-2007. Many of
them have garnered awards at international festivals while
others are just beginning their public showing, but they all
undoubtedly share a common feature; they depict man amidst
his surrounding world, in an astute, thorough and wise manner.
Agnieszka Odorowicz
General Director
Polish Film Institute
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Life, Death, and Other Oddments Reflections on the most important problems ofhuman existence. Death, love, family, freedom,dedication to others, drugs, disease, fighting foroneself. Common and uncommon problems – themost important.
Little WorldsProtagonists living in their own worlds, their lit-tle homelands, absorbed in their own business and emotions. In the dregs or in themiddle?
Postcards from a JourneyJourneys to the other worlds, near and remote:to Moscow, Siberia and Japan as well as theworld of Silesian exotic dancers...
History Lesson: Portraits and EventsHistory reflected in human lots. Great characters and ordinary people tangled in thecourse of events which fill in the pages ofschool textbooks.
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Life, Death,and OtherOddments
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cinematography Roman Chałupnik editing Grzegorz Habryn
sound design Marek Knaga produced by PWSFTViT,
ul. Targowa 61/63, 90-323 Łódź,
phone +48 42 634 58 20, fax +48 42 634 59 28,
e-mail [email protected], www.filmschool.lodz.pl
co-financing Polish Film Institute
mini DV, 16:9, colour, stereo, 23 min
Poland 2006
Awards: . V "Łodzią po Wiśle" Review, Warsaw
2007: Audience Award
Festivals:. 47th Kraków Film Festival 2007
– National Competition – official
selection
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written and directed by Magnus Arnesen
4 proposals 4 oferty matrymonialne
The portraits of four lonely people who are trying tofind their life partners. What do they expect? What do
they have to offer? How they imagine happiness?
written and directed by Jennifer Malmqvist
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cinematography Kate Mc Cullough editing Cecylia Pacura
sound design Iga Stankiewicz produced by PWSFTViT
ul. Targowa 61/63, 90-323 Łódź,
phone +48 42 634 58 20, fax +48 42 634 59 28,
e-mail [email protected], www.filmschool.lodz.pl
producer Andrzej Bednarek co-financing Polish Film Institute
35 mm, colour, stereo, 9 min
Poland 2006
13 lat i 10 miesięcy
Festivals: .. Svenska Bilder Goteborg Film Festival,
Sveden. “Łodzią po Wiśle” Review, Warsaw
2007. 47th Kraków Film Festival 2007
– National Competition – official
selection
Anastazja is almost 14 years old. Her familycomes from Belarus, they arrived to Poland
seven years ago. When Anastazja was five, she hasbeen diagnosed with mucoviscidosis. The illness isconstantly present in her life. The girl recounts howdoes she cope with her incurable disease and theprospect of dying.
13 Years and 10 Months
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cinematography Józef Szymura music Paweł Szymański
produced by Drygas Production, ul. Dzika 19/23,
00-172 Warsaw, phone +48 22 651 50 58,
e-mail [email protected], for Polish Television,
1st Programme, ul. Woronicza 17, 00-999 Warsaw,
phone +48 22 547 88 91, fax +48 22 547 42 42,
e-mail [email protected]
producer Maciej Drygas
Betacam SP, colour, 4:3, stereo, 20 min
Poland 2007
Festivals:. 47th Kraków Film Festival 2007
– National Competition and
International Competition – official
selection
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written and directed by Vita Zelakeviciute
Beyond The Wall Po tamtej stronie
Walking area, work at the tailor’s workshop, austere meal, daily intake of medicines taken
under the watchful eye of medical staff, cell crowdedto the limit – a day like any other. With no needlesswords. Moving story of Russian prisoners sent to psychiatric prison hospital to serve their sentence.Film was made in Chernyakhovsk (Kaliningrad Oblast)and Sychovka (Smolensk Oblast).
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Constellations
written and directed by Marcin Latałło
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cinematography Marcin Latałło, Sławomir Bergański,
Jędrzej Niestrój music Antoni Łazarkiewicz
editing Jaromir Dziewic, Marcin Latałło
sound design Marcin Latałło, Andrzej Kowal,
Denis Streichardt produced by Eureka Media,
ul. Smulikowskiego 13/10, 00-384 Warsaw,
phone +48 22 828 48 10, fax +48 22 829 56 73,
e-mail [email protected], www.eurekamedia.info
producer Krzysztof Kopczyński
co-financing Polish Film Institute
Betacam SP, colour, 4:3, stereo, 52 min
Poland 2006
Konstelacje
Festivals: . Off Cinema, Poznań; . "Man in Danger", Łódź; . 47th Kraków Film Festival 2007
The method of family arrangements (constellations) by Bert Hellinger is an ultra-short therapy with the
participation of audience. Hellinger’s method is consideredthe most important discovery within the field of psychotherapy for last hundred years, different than theusual humbug.
During the film we meet some on the participants ofHellinger’s workshops – German and Polish, later we accompany them in the arrangement.
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cinematography Tomasz Nowak music Robert Friedrich,
Marcin Pospieszalski, SNOWMEN band
editing Mateusz Rogala sound design Leopold Komuszyna
produced by Andrzej Wajda Master School of Film Directing,
ul. Chełmska 21, bld. 24; 00-724 Warsaw, Poland,
phone +48 22 851 10 56, phone/fax +48 22 851 10 57;
e-mail [email protected], www.wajdaschool.pl
producer Katarzyna Ślesicka
production manager Agata Rappe
production co-operation Stowarzyszenie
na Rzecz Młodych Twórców VITRIOL
and Katarzyna Leniec
Betacam SP, 4:3, colour, stereo, 28 min
Poland 2006
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directed and written by Adam Leniec
Cripple_38Kaleka_38
The story of a man trapped in his own body. His lifeconsists of constant battle with himself. Marek has
had cerebral palsy. He moves and speaks with great difficultyyet he constantly fights for love, dignity, and for his right tolive normal life. His maturity and urge to live are truly impressive.
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Cu... Cu... Coo's Egg
directed by Paweł Popko
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written by Aleksandra Maślanka
cinematography Wojciech Todorow, Tomasz Sobański
music Michał Litwiniec editing Marek Żemojta
sound design Marek Łacny produced by Media Brigade,
ul. Pirenejska 9/7, 50-574 Wrocław,
phone +48 71 799 14 51, fax +48 71 799 14 50,
e-mail [email protected]
for Polish Television – 1st Programme
producer Marcin Kurek, Sylwester Banaszkiewicz
Betacam SP, colour, 16:9, stereo, 23 min
Poland 2006
Ku... ku... kułcze jajo
Awards:. 13th International Independent Film
Festival "Publicism 2006": 2nd Prize; . Bartoszki Film Festival, Tarnobrzeg
2006: 2nd Prize; . 39th Józef Milka International Amateur
Film Festival "Pol-8", Polanica Zdrój
2006, 1st Prize; . Polish Award of Independent Film
"Offskar 2007" for the Best
Documentary;
Festivals:. 47th Kraków Film Festival 2007
– National Competition – official
selection
Gracjan - handicapped18 year-old abandoned
by his mother, along with hisbrother lands up in town’sdoss-house. Their mother soldtheir apartment and left toGermany to live with her newpartner. Gracjan’s opennessand joie do vivre win him thefavour of miserable shelter’sinhabitants. Yet Gracjan’sadaptation to new conditionsis difficult and there is nothingto foreshadow solving problems of this young manforlorn by his family and ineffective State’s institutions.
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cinematography Marcin Koszałka, Adam Nocoń,
Maciej Tomaszek music Zygmunt Konieczny
editing Anna Wagner
produced by HBO Polska, ul. Puławska 17, 02-515 Warsaw,
phone +48 22 852 88 00, fax +48 22 852 88 02,
e-mail [email protected], www.hbo.pl producer Krzysztof Rak
executive produced by OTO Film Poland, ul. Puławska 22,
02-564 Warsaw, phone +48 22 542 86 86,
fax +48 22 542 86 87, e-mail [email protected],
www.otofilm.pl co-financing Polish Film Institute
16 mm, colour, 69 min
Poland 2007
Awards:. 47th Kraków Film Festival 2007
– Full-length Documentary
Competition: Audience Award
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written and directed by Marcin Koszałka
The Existence Istnienie
Great actor from Kraków – Jan Nowak is struggling with a terminal disease. The
documentary is the account of becoming familiar withthe prospect of dying and proudly preparing for thedeath to come. The protagonist is not indifferentabout the posthumous lot of his body which hedevised to the Medical Academy for the scientificexperiments. Fully aware and reconciled to what is tocome he talks to his lawyer and his friends.
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The Fat to Bed, the Slim to the Ball...
written and directed by Konrad Szołajski
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music Dariusz Żebrowski editing Hanna Kłoskowska
sound design Marcin Ejsmunt produced by Polish Television,
1st Programme, ul. Woronicza 17, 00-999 Warsaw,
phone +48 22 547 81 25,
e-mail [email protected]
producer Agnieszka Janowska
co-financing Polish Film Institute
Digital Beta, colour, 16:9, stereo, 50 min
Poland 2006
Gruba do łóżka, chuda na bal...
Festivals: . Media Festival "Man in Danger", Łódź
2007: official selection; . Polish Film Art Festival
"Prowincjonalia", Września 2007:
official selection; . 47th Kraków Film Festival 2007
– National Competition – official
selection
Title ascertainment isthe sentence
frequently spoken by the filmfemale protagonists who tryto settle down in a societythat hardly stand otherness.The women find help in thewebsite XL-pozytywnie. pl, runby one of happy “fluffies”. Herwebsite is an unconventionalguide for fat people. It contains formulas regarding allfields of life – from fashionand health to recreation andsex.
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cinematography Małgorzata Szyłak, Jan Komasa
editing Bartek Pietras PSM music Antoni Łazarkiewicz
sound design Michał Muzyka produced by HandMade
Pictures, ul. Macedońska 74, 02-761 Warsaw,
phone +48 601 45 62 04, +48 22 642-68-09
e-mail [email protected]
producer Bartek Pietras
Betacam Digital, colour, 1.33:1, stereo, 81 min
Poland 2007
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written and directed by Jan Komasa
The FlowSpływ
Adocumentary tale about canoe trip ofteenagers who are treated against their
addictions. Extreme conditions and being apart fromcivilization force the participants to overcome theirown limits and to reveal mostly painful truth aboutthemselves.
Festivals:. 47th Kraków Film Festival 2007
– Full-length Documentary
Competition
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Freedom Is a God-Given Gift
written and directed by Cezary Ciszewski
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cinematography Cezary Ciszewski editing Dariusz
Cieszkowski
sound design Błażej Kukla artistic supervisor Andrzej Titkow
produced by Polish Television – Film Agency
for 1st Programme, ul. Woronicza 17, 00-999 Warsaw,
phone +48 22 547 88 91, fax +48 22 547 42 42,
mobile +48 601 600 938, [email protected],
producer Ryszard Urbaniak
DV, colour, 4:3, stereo, 52 min
Poland 2006
Wolność jest darem Boga
Awards:. Media Festival "Man in Danger" Łódź
2006: Honorary Diploma; Opus Film
Award; . Polish Film Art Festival
"Prowincjonalia", Września 2007,
Jańcio Wodnik for the Best
Documentary; . 47th Kraków Film Festival 2007:
National Competition – Srebrny
Lajkonik for the Best Documentary
Cezary Ciszewski, television and radio
reporter, author of many documentaries andreportages, has spend halfa year with the heroin addictsin an abandoned house in thevery centre of Warsaw. Makinga chronicle of their life, he didnot realize that he was alsomaking a story of his own collapse. The result is theshocking document of the“participating observation” – the diary from the narcotichell, showing how “normal” thisworld is when you look at itfrom the inside, and how easyit is to become part of it.
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cinematography Jacek Petrycki
music India Czajkowska editing Paweł Deliś
sound design Jędrzej Niestrój, Jacek Gołąb
produced by Rebecca Studio, ul Dzielna 6/21,
00-162 Warsaw, phone/fax +48 22 635 35 69,
mobile +49 601 28 30 79,
e-mail [email protected],
Polish Television, 2nd Programme,
ul. Woronicza 17, 00-999 Warsaw
producers Violetta Buhl, Krzysztof Lang
co-financing Polish Film Institute
Digital Beta, colour & black and white, stereo, 40 min
Poland 2006
Festivals:. 47th Kraków Film Festival 2007
– National Competition
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written and directed by Andrzej Titkow
Got It? Masz już to?
In year 1988 Andrzej Titkowdirected the documentary “Give It
To Me” which was the recording of aworkshop run by an outstanding psychotherapist Wojciech Eichelberger.The protagonists of the documentarywere the participants of a groupprocess. They dramatically revealedtheir extreme emotions, unsolvedproblems and hidden conflicts. In thefilm “Got It?” the director comes backto his protagonists. He asks them whoare they now, what they do, how theirlives went on. Do they already havewhat they were so determined tostrive for nineteen years ago.
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Hospital
written and directed by Tomasz Wolski
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cinematography Tomasz Wolski
editing Tymek Wiskirski
sound design Bartosz Mleczko,
Robert Buczkowski
artistic supervisor Jacek Bławut
produced by Centrala Ltd., Odyńca 59/14,
02-644 Warsaw, mobile +48 693 95 02 01,
fax +48 22 646 62 73, e-mail [email protected]
producer Agnieszka Janowska
co-financing Polish Film Institute
DV, colour, 30 min
Poland 2006
Klinika
Awards:. 46th Kraków Film Festival – National Contest: Special Mention; . 6th International Film Festival "Era Nowe Horyzonty" – Wrocław
2006 – Documentary Contest: First Prize; . 1st Film Festival "Wakacyjne kadry" – Cieszyn 2006: Golden
Scissors for the Best Film Editing – Tymek Wiskirski. Summer Festival of Independent Cinema "Filmowa Góra", Zielona
Góra 2006: Grand Jury Prize Filmowa Góra, Best Documentary
and Paradocumentary Award – Mały Pagórek; . Polish Edition of Slamdance – Slamdance on the Road, Kraków
2007: Grand Jury Prize; . IFF "Punto de Vista 2007", Spain: Jean Vigo Award for the best
directing
Festivals:. Trieste Film Festival, . Tel Aviv International Documentary Film Festival. International Documentary Film Festival IDFA, Amsterdam
– participant in "Docs for Sale" Fairs
The Collectiveportrait of
patients and doctors from theInternal DiseasesClinic in Cracow. Thefilm presents themicrocosm of theelderly people forwhom the hospitalbecomes their second home.
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cinematography Zbyszek Jarosz, Rafał Śmierzchalski
music Paris Music editing Renata Gabryjelska, Piotr Krasny
sound design Grzegorz Lindemann
produced by Warsaw Film School, ul. Świeradowska 43,
02-662 Warsaw, phone +48 22 543 55 99,
e-mail [email protected]
producer Maciek Ślesicki
HDV, colour, 19 min
Poland 2006
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written and directed by Renata Gabryjelska
JanekJanek
Awards: . 25th Debut Film Festival Young
& Cinema, Koszalin 2006: Award for
Documentary in Polish School Films
Competition
Festivals:. 47th Kraków Film Festival 2007
– National Competition – official
selection
Astory of shoeblack philosopher told as a platform ballad about a railway station’s capitalism.
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Kurc
written and directed by Borys Lankosz
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cinematography Borys Lankosz music Abel Korzeniowski
editing Bartosz Karczyński sound design Anna Rutkowska
produced by Euromedia TV, Sandomierska 28/1,
02-567 Warsaw, phone +48 22 856 93 04,
fax +48 22 856 95 38, e-mail [email protected]
producers Anna Brzywczy, Anna Żamojda
DV, colour, 24 min
Poland 2006
Kurc
Awards: . Film Festival "Wakacyjne Kadry"
Cieszyn 2006: Golden Horseshoe for
the best documentary
Festivals:. 46th Kraków Film Festival 2006
Mariusz Kurc had a passport in his pocket,120 PLN and a digital camcorder in his
rucksack. He travelled to more than ten countriesin three continents in eighteen months. What washe looking for? What was he escaping from?
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cinematography Szymon Lenkowski editing Justyna
Gajewska
sound design Darek Wancerz produced by Stowarzyszenie
Przyjaciół Integracji, ul. Sapieżyńska 10a, 00-215 Warsaw,
phone +48 22 635 13 30, e-mail [email protected],
www.integracja.org executive produced by Andrzej Wajda
Master School of Film Directing, ul. Chełmska 21, bld. 24;
00-724 Warsaw, Poland, phone +48 22 851 10 56,
phone/fax +48 22 851 10 57; e-mail [email protected]
www.wajdaschool.pl executive producers Monika Pawluczuk,
Katarzyna Ślesicka
DV, colour, 23 min
Poland 2006
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written and directed by Monika Pawluczuk
ModelsModelki
Female director accompanies a group of Silesian girls,models on wheelchairs, during their preparation to
a fashion show that is organized in one of Warsaw clubs.
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My Baby Is an Angel
written and directed by Monika Górska
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cinematography Rafał Jerzak music Krzysztof Górski
editing Wiesław Jagsch sound design Mirosław Domagała
produced by Polish Television – Agencja Produkcji Audycji
Telewizyjnych dla Redakcji Filmu Dokumentalnego
i Reportażu TVP 2, ul. Woronicza 17, 00-999 Warsaw,
phone +48 22 547 80 75, +48 22 547 80 92
producer Tomasz Polaski
Betacam SP, colour, 25 min
Poland 2006
Moje dziecko jest aniołem
Awards: . Circom Regional Award (Association
of European Regional Televisions)
2006: Grand Prix for the Best
Documentary; . Media Festival "Men in Danger" Łódź
2006: Honourary Diploma
The story about everyday life of the mothers who havelost their prematurely born children. Medical staff as
well as civil servants, priests and even relatives deny theirright to despair, and refuse their dead children’s right to betreated as humans. The protagonists are trying to break theconspiracy of silence that arouse on this matter. They meet insupport groups, write letters to the parliament and thepriests, they distribute leaflets among mothers in hospitals.
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cinematography Jacek Drosio music Adam Walicki,
Marcin Rychter editing Jacek Drosio sound design Piotr Fede
produced by Shot-Szumowski,
e-mail [email protected], [email protected]
for Polish Television, Programme 2, ul. Woronicza 17,
00-999 Warsaw, phone +48 22 547 80 75,
+48 22 547 80 92, e-mail [email protected]
producer Agnieszka Kurzydło
Digital Beta, colour, 16:9, stereo, 39 min
Poland 2006
Awards: . 47th Kraków Film Festival 2007,
International Competition: The
City of Kraków Student's Jury
Prize (ex aequo with "Mon dernier
role"/My Last Role directed by
Olivier Ayache-Vidal)
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written and directed by Małgorzata Szumowska
Nothing To Be Scared Of A czego tu się bać
Villagers from Mazurianvillage talk about
rituals, customs and beliefsregarding death. Their talk isordinary just like in other topics, yet it is honest, eloquent and humorous. Forthem death is familiar, otherwise than for townsfolkwho don’t have time to thinkabout it. Yet paradoxically itcauses even greater fear.“There is nothing to be scareof” – are wondering the protagonists of this funny andmoving film.
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On the Road
written and directed by Maciej Adamek
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cinematography Artur Żurawski
music Andrzej Izdebski editing Sławomir Goździk
sound design Grzegorz Nawara
produced by Polish Television – 2nd Programme,
ul. Woronicza 17, 00-999 Warsaw,
phone +48 22 547 80 88, +48 22 547 80 95
fax +48 22 547 88 30
executive producer SPI International Polska,
ul. Tyniecka 38a, 02-621 Warsaw,
phone +48 504 06 40 37 producer Radek Styś
Betacam SP, colour, 30 min
Poland 2005
W drodze
Awards: . Media Festiwal "Man in Danger" Łódź, Poland 2005:
Honourary Diploma; . Worldwide Short Film Festival, Toronto, Canada 2006:
Best Documentary Award; . Belo Horizonte International Short Film Festival, Brazil
2006: Audience Award; . Worldfest Independent Film Festival, Houston, USA 2007:
Platinum Remi for the best editing – Sławomir Goździk; . International Documentary Film Festival Cronograf,
Moldavia 2007:
– Grand Prix,
– Audience Award,
– Award for the Best Cinematography – Artur Żurawski; . The End of the Pier International Film Festival, Bognor
Regis, Great Britain 2007:
– Special Mention in the documentary film category,
– Special Mention in the European film category
Ahomeless married couple
wonders across Polandsearching for a place tosettle down. They carryall their earthly possessions in twosmall bags. They sleepin the woods or indilapidated houses andlook for their food ingarbage cans. Whilst onthe road, they tell thestory of their lives;longtime homelessnessand their relationship – which for them is themost important thing inlife.
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cinematography Yori Fabian editing Bogusława Furga
sound design Michał Robaczewski, Justyna Musialska
produced by PWSFTViT, ul. Targowa 61/63, 90-323 Łódź,
phone +48 42 634 58 20, fax +48 42 634 59 28,
e-mail [email protected] www.filmschool.pl
producer Bogusława Furga
artistic supervisor Grażyna Kędzielawska
co-financing Polish Film Institute
DV, black & white, 14 min
Poland 2006
Awards: . 47th Kraków Film Festival 2007:
Maciej Szumowski Award (ex aequo
with the film "Cupboard" by Jacob
Dammas)
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written and directed by Magnus von Horn
RadekRadek
Radek has been recentlyreleased from prison.
He is trying to control hisaggression but in the world helives in, it is hard to do so.
Portrait of a young manwho is trying to understandand change himself withoutany support from his environment, cultural patternsand the language he speaks.Does he have a chance?
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Rendez-vous
written and directed by Marcin Janos Krawczyk
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cinematography Wojciech Staroń editing Wojciech Jagiełło
sound design Aleksandra Zawrotniak
produced by Andrzej Wajda Master School of Film Directing,
ul. Chełmska 21, bld. 24; 00-724 Warsaw, Poland,
phone +48 22 851 10 56, phone/fax +48 22 851 10 57;
e-mail [email protected], www.wajdaschool.pl
producer Katarzyna Ślesicka
co-financing Polish Film Institute
Betacam SP, colour, 4:3, stereo, 9,5 min
Poland 2006
Rendez-vous
Awards: . 13th Festival "FeFe – Felliniada", Warsaw
2006: "little FeFe" Award; . 3rd European Film Festival "Integration You
and Me", Koszalin 2006: Grand Prix in the
category of documentary; . Polish Film Festival in New York, USA 2007:
Special Mention;
Festivals:. Famufest, Prague, Czech 2006:
official selection; . Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin
"Berlinale" 2007: official selection; . Cinéma du Réel, Paris, France 2007: official
selection; . 5th International Festival Silverdocs,
Washington DC, USA 2007: official selection
Two young peopleon a date. Café,
romantic backgroundmusic. But for these twosuch a going out is something very unusual...
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cinematography Szymon Lenkowski music Philip Glass
editing Tymek Wiskirski sound design Iwo Klimek produced by
Eureka Media, Smulikowskiego 13/10, 00-384 Warsaw,
phone +48 22 828 48 10, fax +48 22 829 56 73,
e-mail [email protected], www.eurekamedia.info,
www.newgaze.info; Polish Television
producer Krzysztof Kopczyński co-financing Polish Film Institute,
Andrzej Wajda Master School of Film Directing
HDV, colour, 28 min
Poland 2006
Awards: . International Documentary Film Festival
"Flahertiana", Perm, Russia 2006: Great
Silver Nanook, Award for the Best
Documentary; . 46th Kraków Film Festival 2006 –
National Competition:
– Grand Prix – Złoty Lajkonik,
– Kodak Award
– Cracow Students' Award; . AFI Discovery Channel Documentary
Festival "Silverdocs", Washington – Main
Award for the Short Documentary; . 28th Big Muddy Film Festival, Illinois, USA
– Award for the Best Short; . Russian Film Prize "Laurel" 2006,
Moscow – for the best foreign
non-feature film; . Best Debut Award at the Cieszyn Film
Festival 2006 for the director of cine-
matography, Szymon Lenkowski;
Life
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written and directed by Wojciech Kasperski
The Seeds Nasiona
Film in the series “Russia-Poland. New Gaze”. A married couple with many children dwell
on the outskirts of a small village surrounded bythe Altay Mountains. They live in poverty, rejectedby the local society. Once a tragedy happenedhere. Now they have to pay for the old sins.
. Special Mention at the Prix Europa
Festival in Berlin 2006; . Special Award of the Jury at the Media
Festival "Human in Peril" Łódź 2006; . Alternative Festival of Independent Film,
Barcelona, Spain 2006: Jury's Special
Mention; . European Film Week OFF/ON Warsaw
2006: Special Award; . The CMU International Film Festival
2006 "Faces of Democracy", Pittsburgh
2006: Grand Prix in the Student
International Short Film category; . Big Sky Documentary Film Festival,
Missoula, Montana 2007: Jury's Special
Award; . International Music and Film Festival
– Mediawave, Györ, Hungary 2007:
Grand Prix
Presented at many other festivals, including
INPUT 2006, DOK Leipzig 2006 and Polish
Film Festival in America 2006.
Life
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Stiepan
written and directed by Radka Franczak
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cinematography Radek Ładczuk editing Michał Żytkowski
sound design Jarek Wójcik produced by Andrzej Wajda Master
School of Film Directing, ul. Chełmska 21, bld. 24;
00-724 Warsaw, Poland, phone +48 22 851 10 56,
phone/fax +48 22 851 10 57; e-mail [email protected]
www.wajdaschool.pl producer Katarzyna Ślesicka
co-financing Polish Film Institute
Betacam SP, colour, 4:3, stereo, 13 min
Poland 2006
Stiepan
Festivals:. Official Selection of One World /
People In Need Film Festival
– Prague 2007, Czech Republic.
Random conversation that people have on trains and
railway stations while passingstrangers on a journey. A 75 year old Russian – Stiepan, met by the booking-office at the Terespol railway station, recounts the unusualstory of his life.
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cinematography Krzysztof Kasior editing Krzysztof Kasior
sound design Krzysztof Kasior produced by Wydział Radia
i Telewizji, Uniwersytet Śląski, ul. Bytkowska 1 B,
40-955 Katowice, phone +48 32 258 24 21 ex 287,
+48 32 258 70 70, mobile +48 693 398 868,
e-mail [email protected] co-financing Polish Film Institute
Betacam SP, colour, 4:3, stereo, 12 min
Poland 2006
Festivals: . 47th Kraków Film Festival 2007
– National Competition – official
selection
Life
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written and directed by Krzysztof Kasior
SymbiosisSymbioza
Zbyszek has never moved out from his room. He is52 years old and he still lives with his mother
– 72 year-old Zofia. Zbyszek is leaving to a sanatorium inCiechocinek. He suffers because of separation with hismother. When he comes back home, we found out thetruth about their mutual relation.
Life
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Tactility
written and directed by Julia Kolberger
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cinematography Monika Kotecka music Tadeusz Wielecki,
Jan Pęczak editing Barbara Snarska
sound design Ewa Bogusz produced by PWSFTViT,
ul. Targowa 61/63, 90-323 Łódź,
phone +48 42 634 58 23, +48 42 634 58 20,
fax +48 42 634 59 28, e-mail [email protected],
www.filmschool.lodz.pl producer Beata Gzik
co-financing Polish Film Institute
Betacam SP, colour, 16:9, mono, 16 min
Poland 2007
Przez dotyk
Festivals:. 5th Łódź Film School Student Film
Review "Łodzią po Wiśle", Warsaw
2007;. 47th Kraków Film Festival 2007
– National Competition – official
selection Ason Ignacy is born toVanessa and Peter.
Ignacy neither sees nor hears.Young parents are trying toimagine his world to themselves, to communicatewith him and to show him asmuch love and warmth as possible. Their world slowlychanges. They start to enjoylittle details and appreciatesmall things. After two yearstheir second son Maurycy isborn. It turns out that hewon’t see nor hear neither...
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cinematography Tomasz Nowak editing Bogusława Furga
sound design Wojciech Emm produced by PWSFTViT,
Targowa 61/63, 90-323 Łódź, phone +48 42 634 58 20,
fax +48 42 674 80 88, e-mail [email protected],
www.filmschool.lodz.pl producer Andrzej Bednarek
artistic supervisor Tadeusz Pałka
co-financing Polish Film Institute
Betacam SP, colour and black & white, 4:3, mono, 14 min
Poland 2006
Awards: . 4th Łódź Film School Student Film
Review "Łodzią po Wiśle", Warsaw
2006: Grand Prix; . XVI The Media Festival "Man in
Danger", Łódź 2006: Honorary
Diploma
Festivals:. 47th Kraków Film Festival 2007
– National Competition – official
selection
Life
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written and directed by Jan Wagner
Taking Care Pod opieką
Portrait of a young doctor, who takes care of the incurably ill children, patients of the “Gajusz”
Foundation in Łódź.
Life
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User Friendly Death
written and directed by Marcin Koszałka
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cinematography Marcin Koszałka music Adrian Konarski,
Krzysztof Suchodolski editing Anna Wagner
sound design Krzysztof Suchodolski
produced by HBO Polska, ul. Puławska 17, 02-515 Warsaw,
phone +48 22 852 88 00, fax +48 22 852 88 02,
e-mail [email protected] producer Krzysztof Rak
executive producer Natalia Bartkowicz-Koszałka
– DarkLight Studio, ul. Katowicka 48, 31-351 Kraków,
phone +48 12 626 38 01, e-mail [email protected]
Digital Beta, black & white and colour, 4:3, stereo, 69'
Poland 2006
Śmierć z ludzką twarzą
Crematorium in Ostrava. The workers speak about theprocess of cremation, different kinds of coffins and
urns. The camera shows the moment when the dead body isput into the stove, and how the ashes are placed into numbered urn.
You can get used to death, learn to face it every day. Forthe workers of the crematorium it is a usual workplace. Forthe rest of us, a place we'd rather forget.
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cinematography Jacek Bławut editing Jacek Bławut
sound design Robert Sędzicki (Opus Film), Jacek Piotr
Bławut, Wojciech Cwyk produced by HBO Poland,
ul. Puławska 17, 02-515 Warsaw,
phone +48 22 852 88 00, fax +48 22 852 88 02,
e-mail [email protected] producers Jerzy Dzięgielewski,
Aleksander Kutela, Krzysztof Rak, Anna Skonieczna
executive producer Produkcja Filmów Jacek Bławut,
ul. Kardynała Wyszyńskiego 25 m 31/21, 94-047 Łódź,
phone +48 42 252 27 05, fax +48 42 689 04 79,
e-mail [email protected]
HDV, colour, 4:3, 85 min
Poland 2007
Awards:. 47th Kraków Film Festival 2007
– Full-length Documentary
Competition: Honourable Mention
Life
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th, a
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written and directed by Jacek Bławut
The WarriorWojownik
Astory of the extraordinary career and the tragic fall of aPolish kick-boxer Marek Piotrowski. In 1988, just a year
before the fall of communism in Poland, Marek emigrated to USAwith a dream to become a star of kick-boxing. He won the title ofUSA Champion and three times he became the World Champion. Helived in luxury. In 1996 his decline commenced: his father died, hegot divorced, he learnt that he’s not the father of a boy he believedto be his son, he fell ill, could not walk or speak. His career had broken, Marek fell into financial problems and became a taxi-driverin Detroit. After a year he returned to live with his mother in a smalltown near Warsaw. Marek fought with depression for three years.Finally he got better. He established a small kick-boxing school fortroubled youth in Minsk Mazowiecki. His old-time fan advised himto take on another job: Marek started organizing courses for bigcompanies’ workers and teaching them motivation: how to be successful and how to cope with their failures.
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Little Worlds
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cinematography Piotr Niemyjski editing Marek Ciszewski
sound design Witold Zalewski produced by Zespół Filmowy
Paladino, [email protected]; Andrzej Wajda Master School
of Film Directing, ul. Chełmska 21, bld. 24;
00-724 Warsaw, Poland, phone +48 22 851 10 56,
phone/fax +48 22 851 10 57; e-mail [email protected]
www.wajdaschool.pl; Centrala Ltd., Odyńca 59/14,
02-644 Warsaw, mobile +48 693 95 02 01,
fax +48 22 646 62 73, e-mail [email protected]
co-financing Polish Film Institute
Betacam SP, colour, 4:3, stereo, 26 min
Poland 2007
Litt
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written and directed by Piotr Stasik
Above Pavements Ponad chodnikami
Apoetic story of passion and creationof music.
Andrzej – a 17 year-old – is a talentedpianist. His parents call him warmly “Johnnythe Musician” because he comes froma small town and has no money for propereducation. One day he receives an invitationfor music workshops in Warsaw. Under thetutelage of real masters of music, alongwith thirty other teenagers from the wholePoland, he practices for his first serious concert.
Litt
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At the Datcha
written and directed by Thierry Paladino
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cinematography Thierry Paladino
editing Rafał Samborski
sound design Michał Dominowski,
Tomek Wieczorek, Studio Sonoria
produced by Andrzej Wajda Master School
of Film Directing, ul. Chełmska 21, bld. 24;
00-724 Warsaw, Poland,
phone +48 22 851 10 56,
phone/fax +48 22 851 10 57,
e-mail [email protected] www.wajdaschool.pl
producer Katarzyna Ślesicka
co-financing Polish Film Institute
Betacam SP, colour, 4:3, stereo, 26 min
Poland 2006
Na działce
Awards: . 36th International Film Festival Lubuskie Film Summer, Łagów
2006: Grand Prix Golden Grape – team award for the set of docu-
mentaries for the Zespół Filmowy Paladino; . Belgrad Festival of Documentary and Short Film, Serbia 2007:
Grand Prix – Golden Medal of Belgrade; . International Music and Film Festival – Mediawave, Györ, Hungary
2007: Special Award of the Barka Theater; . Polish Film Festival in New York, 2007: Special Mention; . Slamdance of the Road, Kraków 2007: Special Mention; . Vilnius Film Shorts; European Student Short Film Festival,
Lithuania 2007: Grand Prix for the best documentary;
Festivals:. 49th International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated
Film, Leipzig 2006 – official selection; . Paris Tout Court, Paris 2007 – official selection; . Trieste Film Festival, Trieste 2007 – official selection; . Visions Du Réel, Nyon 2007 – official selection; . 47th Kraków Film Festival 2007 – National Competition – official
selection
Portrait of a deafand mute family
spending their free timeon a vegetable plot.Scenes made in thestyle of a silent movies resemble slapstick comedies. The movieshows how the protagonists cope witheveryday problems.Staying out, they doeverything but rest.They break things andtry to fix them withoutany success. They aretruly happy and loveeach other. Despitebeing poor and deaf.
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cinematography Piotr Niemyjski, Piotr Rosołowski
editing Magda Kowalczyk sound design Michał Dominowski
produced by Andrzej Wajda Master School of Film Directing,
ul. Chełmska 21, bld. 24; 00-724 Warsaw, Poland,
phone +48 22 851 10 56, phone/fax +48 22 851 10 57;
e-mail [email protected] www.wajdaschool.pl
producer Katarzyna Ślesicka co-financing Polish Film
Institute
Betacam SP, colour, 4:3, stereo, 12 min
Poland 2006
Festivals: . Teheran International Short Film
Festival – official selection
Litt
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orld
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written and directed by Magda Kowalczyk
By the River Przy rzece
Dawn. Thicket. Silhouettes of workers. A crunch of cutting branches, steady rhythm of work. Slowly
Warsaw appears at the other side of the river. Workers areregulatating the bank of Vistula river.
Poetic images, editing and sound effects refer to Polish documentary classics.
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Cat Ladies
written and directed by Paweł Łoziński
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cinematography Szymon Lenkowski, Wojciech Staroń,
Kacper Lisowski editing Katarzyna Maciejko-Kowalczyk
produced by Polish Television, ul. Woronicza 17,
00-999 Warsaw, phone +48 22 547 81 25,
fax +48 22 547 42 42; e-mail [email protected]
executive producer Paweł Łoziński Produkcja Filmów,
ul. Walecznych 17/6, 03-916 Warsaw,
phone +48 22 617 48 53, mobile +48 601 221 311,
e-mail [email protected]
co-financing Polish Film Institute
Digital Beta, colour, 16:9, stereo, 45 min
Poland 2007
Kociary
Older and younger, rich and poor, educated and common, married and single. Yet they have something
in common – their love for cats. How did it turned out thatthey have become cat lovers? Was anything missing in theirlives? Does anyone can be a stray cat feeder?
Moving and witty film about the need of love. The needto take care of someone, to love somebody, to look after. Togive life a meaning.
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cinematography Henryk Nagrodzki, Andrzej Mańkowski,
Jacek Dworakowski, Jacek Piotr Bławut
editing Andrzej Mańkowski sound design Andrzej Żabicki
artistic supervisor Jacek Bławut produced by Polish Television,
2nd Programme, ul. Woronicza 17, 00-999 Warsaw,
phone +48 22 547 80 88, +48 22 547 80 75,
+48 22 547 80 92,
e-mail [email protected]
producer Barbara Paciorkowska executive producer
Anna Bławut-Mazurkiewicz – Produkcja Filmów
Jacek Bławut, ul. Kardynała Wyszyńskiego 25 m 31/21,
94-047 Łódź, phone +48 42 252 27 05,
fax +48 42 689 04 79, e-mail [email protected]
co-financing Script Agency
Betacam SP, colour, 4:3, stereo, 26 min
Poland 2006
Awards: . International Film Festival OFF
CINEMA Poznań, Poland 2006:
commend; . Film Festival NURT Kielce, Poland 2006
– the Polish Radio Ltd. Special Prize;
Festivals:. Polish Film Festival Chicago, USA:
official selection; . Film Festival "Holiday's Frames"
Cieszyn, Poland 2006: official
selection; . Film Festival HAPPY END, Rzeszów,
Poland 2006: official selection. 42nd Karlovy Vary International Film
Festival , Czech 2007: official
selection
Litt
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orld
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written and directed by Andrzej Mańkowski
The Music Lesson Lekcja muzyki
The main character – Tomasz
Stroynowski, the pianist – unravels the world throughthe music. While observinghis pedagogical work and hislife’s incidents, we give in tohis unpretentious and warmunderstanding of human’sfate. We discover that themusic itself appears to bethe universal language forhuman communication.
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On the Sky On Earth
written and directed by Maciej Cuske
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cinematography Radek Ładczuk music Tomasz Gwinciński
editing Anna Dymek sound design Zofia Gołębiowska
produced by Zespół Filmowy PALADINO,
ul. Racławicka 9/65, 85-041 Bydgoszcz,
e-mail [email protected]; Centrala Ltd., Odyńca 59/14,
02-644 Warsaw, mobile +48 693 95 02 01,
fax +48 22 646 62 73, e-mail [email protected];
Andrzej Wajda Master School of Film Directing,
ul. Chełmska 21, bld. 24; 00-724 Warsaw, Poland,
phone +48 22 851 10 56, phone/fax +48 22 851 10 57;
e-mail [email protected] www.wajdaschool.pl
co-financing Polish Film Institute
DV/Betacam SP, colour, 16:9, 70 min
Poland 2007
Na niebie na ziemi
Agroup of supernatural phenomena aficionados comesto a small town Wylatowo (Takeoffville). Just like every
year they expect extraordinary signs to appear in the field ofgrain. One of the investigators has almost been kidnapped byUFO. Yet he doesn’t give up and he tries at any cost to provethe extraterrestrials’ existence.
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cinematography Thierry Paladino editing Wojciech Jagiełło
sound design Thierry Paladino produced by Andrzej Wajda
Master School of Film Directing, ul. Chełmska 21, bld. 24;
00-724 Warsaw, Poland, phone +48 22 851 10 56,
phone/fax +48 22 851 10 57; e-mail [email protected],
www.wajdaschool.pl producer Katarzyna Ślesicka
co-financing The Adam Mickiewicz Institute
Betacam SP, colour, 4:3, stereo, 14 min
Poland 2006
Litt
le W
orld
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written and directed by Thierry Paladino
The Shopkeeper W sklepie
Festivals: . Film was presented at various film
festivals including Berlinale 2006.
To a general store at the social welfare institution areavarious clients come. Some of them come to buy
something, others to talk or sing a song. The film was madewithin the project “Reflections” – joint venture of AndrzejWajda Master School of Film Directing and InternationaleFilmschule Koeln.
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Travelling Cinema
written and directed by Marcin Sauter
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cinematography Marcin Sauter music Tomasz Gwinciński
editing Anna Dymek sound design Witold Roy-Zalewski,
Andrzej Kasprzyk artistic supervising Andrzej Wajda
Master School of Film Directing, ul. Chełmska 21, bld. 24;
00-724 Warsaw, Poland, phone +48 22 851 10 56,
phone/fax +48 22 851 10 57, e-mail [email protected]
www.wajdaschool.pl produced by Kalejdoskop Film Studio,
ul. Chełmska 21, 00-724 Warsaw,
phone +48 22 851 17 79, fax +48 22 841 21 35;
e-mail [email protected]; Polish Television,
ul. Woronicza 17; 00-999 Warsaw,
phone +48 22 547 81 25, fax +48 22 547 42 42;
e-mail [email protected]
producer Zbigniew Domagalski
Betacam SP, colour, 52 min
Poland 2006
Kino objazdowe
Awards: . 46th Kraków Film Festival 2006,
National Contest:
– Grand Prix – Silver Lajkonik;
– Student Jury Award; . 36th International Film Festival –
Lubuskie Film Summer, Łagów 2006:
Grand Prix – Golden Grape – team
award for Zespół Filmowy Paladino; . Worldfest Independent Film Festival,
Houston, USA 2007: Bronze Remi in
the category of social-economical
matters
Two young men Darekand Michal have found
inventive way to spend holidays. They bought an oldmovie projector, copies ofPolish classic movies and theystarted out their way throughPoland in old, dilapidated car. Invillages and small towns theirreach children and adults withtheir travelling cinema.
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7 x Moscow
written and directed by Piotr Stasik
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cinematography Piotr Rosołowski editing Piotr Stasik
sound design Anatolij Tiurikow dubbing Piotr Stasik,
Mateusz Bała, Iwo Klimek artistic supervising Andrzej Wajda
Master School of Film Directing, ul. Chełmska 21, bld. 24;
00-724 Warsaw, Poland, phone +48 22 851 10 56,
phone/fax +48 22 851 10 57; e-mail [email protected]
www.wajdaschool.pl produced by Eureka Media,
Smulikowskiego 13/10, 00-384 Warsaw,
phone +48 22 828 48 10, fax +48 22 829 56 73,
e-mail [email protected]; www.eurekamedia.info;
www.newgaze.info; Polish Television
co-financing Polish Film Institute, National Film Institute
of the Russian Federation (VGIK) producer Krzysztof
Kopczyński co-producer Witold Będkowski
(Polish Television) co-financing Polish Film Institute
mini DV, colour, 18’
Poland 2006
7 x Moskwa
Awards: . 46th Kraków Film Festival 2006: Polish
Television President's Award for the
best cinematography for Piotr
Rosołowski; . 36th International Film Festival
Lubuskie Film Summer, Łagów 2006:
Grand Prix Golden Grape – team
award for the set of documentaries
for the Zespół Filmowy Paladino;
Festivals:. Shown at the Prix Europa 2006
Festival (additional screenings)
Film made within theproject “Russia –
Poland. New Gaze”. Portrait ofthe capitol of Russia. Sevenlong and static shots made incharacteristic and carefullyselected spots, create a poeticpicture of the city and itsinhabitants.
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cinematography Jakub Giza music Łukasz Lach
editing Cecylia Pacura
sound design Wojciech Mrówczyński
produced by Eureka Media,
ul. Smulikowskiego 13/10, 00-384 Warsaw,
phone +48 22 828 48 10, fax +48 22 829 56 73,
e-mail [email protected]; www.newgaze.info;
PWSFTViT, ul. Targowa 61/63, 90-323 Łódź,
phone +48 42 634 58 20, fax +48 42 634 59 28,
e-mail [email protected]
www.filmschool.pl producer Krzysztof Kopczyński
co-financing Polish Film Institute, The Adam
Mickiewicz Institute
Betacam SP, colour, 16:9, stereo, 19 min
Poland 2007
Awards: . 5th Łódź Film School Student Film
Review "Łodzią po Wiśle", Warsaw
2007: First Prize; . 47th Kraków Film Festival 2007 –
National Competition:
– Grand Prix – Golden Lajkonik;
– The President of Polish Television
TVP SA Award for the best
documentary;
– The President of Polish Television
TVP SA Award for the best cine-
matography for Jakub Giza;
– The President of Polish Filmmakers
Association Award for the best edit-
ing for Cecylia Pacura;
– Kodak Prize – 10 reels of 16mm
film for the director of the best film
on the festival.
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written and directed by Rafał Skalski
The 52 Percent 52 procent
Ałła wishes to became a balletdancer and once again she
tries to be admitted to the best ballet school in Russia. This proves tobe very difficult task. It requires notonly gift and abilities, the body proportions are also very important:52% is the perfect ratio of the legs’length to the height. Ałła is allowedto pass the entrance exams oncemore on condition that she lengthensher legs. The girl pursues rigoroustrainings hoping to make her dreamscome true...
Film was made within the secondedition of the project “Russia –Poland. New Gaze” carried out byAdam Mickiewicz Institute andEureka Media company.
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All Day Together
written and directed by Marcin Koszałka
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cinematography Adam Nocoń editing Marcin Koszałka,
Natalia Bartkowicz-Koszałka sound editing Jacek Kołtuniak
produced by DarkLight Studio, ul. Katowicka 48,
31-351 Kraków, phone +48 12 626 38 01
e-mail [email protected]
producer Natalia Bartkowicz-Koszałka
DV, colour, 25 min
Poland 2006
Cały dzień razem
Awards: . 46th Kraków Film Festival 2006
– International Competition: Special
Mention of the Jury for "showing
what is usually hidden in most of the
documentaries"; . International Documentary Film
Festival, Jihlava, Czech: award for the
best documentary made in Central
Europe
“Two suckers fromPoland come to the
house of a Japanese woman,who is either busy or awayfrom home. They want toshoot a documentary abouther” – this is how MarcinKoszałka explained the idea ofhis movie on the set.
Polish filmmakers want tomake a documentary abouta Japanese woman. She directsthem towards nature. Culturaland above all linguistic divisions are too big...
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screenplay by Sławomir Grunberg
cinematography Sławomir Grunberg cameras Steve Clack,
Mariusz Cichoń, Hubert Bembacz, Michał Popiel
narration Ewa Pięta music Doug Frankeburge,
Michał Szostało, Jacek Szylkowski
editing Małgorzata Łukomska, Steve Clack
sound design Tomasz Gniadek, Doug Frankenberger
produced by Log In Productions, 4 La Rue Road Spencer,
New York 14883, phone +001 607 589 4709
co-produced by MG Production, ul. Jana III Sobieskiego 11A,
05-070 Sulejówek, phone +48 22 783 56 74
producer Sławomir Grunberg co-producer Mirosław Grubek
co-financing Polish Television, 1st Programme
distributed by LogTV
colour
USA – Poland 2006
Festivals: . 47th Kraków International Film
Festival 2007 . Toruń Film Festival TOFFI 2006 . Warsaw International Film Festival
2006
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directed by Sławomir Grunberg, Ewa Pięta
Burning Man Płonący facet
It all started 20 years ago in San Francisco, when LarryHarvey, disappointed with his love affair, decided to burn
two-metre tall dummy on the beach. He invited some friends,who enjoyed it a lot and decided to repeat the event nextyear... 20 years after, the biggest artistic event in the USAattracts 35 thousand people. This time to the dry lake in theNevada desert.
15 Polish artist participated in the 20. art and freedomfestival. The camera shows the fascinated observers whobecome involved in the event to discover a different world inits extremes.
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The First Day
written and directed by Marcin Sauter
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cinematography Marcin Sauter editing Tymek Wiskirski
sound design Michał Marczak produced by Eureka Media,
ul. Smulikowskiego 13/10, 00-384 Warsaw,
phone +48 22 828 48 10, fax +48 22 829 56 73,
e-mail [email protected], www.newgaze.info
producer Krzysztof Kopczyński co-producer TVP Kultura,
ul. Woronicza 17, 00-999 Warsaw,
e-mail [email protected]
co-financing Polish Film Institute,
The Adam Mickiewicz Institute
Betacam SP, colour, 16:9, stereo, 26 min
Poland 2007
Pierwszy dzień
Awards: . 47th Kraków Film Festival 2007 –
International Competition and
National Competition: Honorary Prize
of Students from the City of Kraków
Jury
Film made within second edition of the project “Russia – Poland. New Gaze”.
Far away in Siberian tundra children live in close contactwith nature and their relatives. Even ordinary, everyday pursuits have their own magic. But every child has to go toschool. By ship, boat or plane children are transported to villages where during the whole year they are being taughtmathematics and Russian. Everyone has to know who isPutin and where lies Moscow.
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cinematography Jacek Petrycki, Andrzej Adamczak,
Radek Ładczuk, Leszek Skuza
editing Katarzyna Maciejko-Kowalczyk
sound design Jerzy Murawski, Jarosław Roszyk
produced by Kalejdoskop Film Studio, ul. Chełmska 21,
00-724 Warsaw, phone +48 22 851 17 79,
fax +48 22 841 21 35, e-mail [email protected],
www.kalejdoskop.art.pl producer Zbigniew Domagalski
co-produced by Polish Television – Film Agency,
ul. Woronicza 17, 00-999 Warsaw,
phone +48 22 547 81 67 Polish distributor Gutek Film,
ul. Zamenhofa 1, Warsaw co-financing Polish Film Institute,
Media Programme
Digital Beta, colour, 16:9, stereo, 87 min
Poland 2006
Awards: . Media Festival "Human in Peril", Łodź
2006, Grand Prix White Cobra; . Polish Film Festival Chicago 2006:
Golden Teeth – Audience Award for the
best documentary; . National Independent Review of
Documentary Forms NURT 2006, Kielce,
Poland:
– Award of the Audience;
– special award of "Charaktery" monthly
for "truth and psychological depth"; . National Festival of Film Art
"Prowincjonalia", Września, Poland 2007:
Organizers Special Award; . Middle-East European Film Festival
"goEast" Wiesbaden, Germany 2007:
Grand Prix in the category of
documentary
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How It's Done Jak to się robi
Piotr Tymochowicz, amedia advisor,
decided to prove that anyone can become a politician. Hundreds ofpeople showed up at thecasting. More than ten stated their training. Onlyone survived it. For threeyears, an outstanding Polishdocumentary filmmaker,member of the Americanand European Academies ofFilm, Marcel Łoziński hasbeen documenting the birthand career of a politician:cynical player, demagogue,scruples in his fight forpower.
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written and directed by Michał Rogalski
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cinematography Karina Kleszczewska music Jan Komar
editing Cezary Grzesiuk, Jarosław Pietraszek
sound design Andrzej Kijanowski produced by HBO Polska,
ul. Puławska 17, 02-515 Warsaw,
phone +48 22 852 88 00, fax +48 22 852 88 02,
e-mail [email protected], www.hbo.pl producer Krzysztof Rak
executive produced by OTO Film Poland, ul. Puławska 22,
02-564 Warsaw, phone +48 22 542 86 86,
fax +48 22 542 86 87, e-mail [email protected],
www.otofilm.pl executive producers Jacek Kulczycki,
Sławomir Boniecki
Digital Beta, colour, 4:3, stereo, 60 min
Poland 2006
Śląski interes
Festivals: . 47th Kraków Film Festival 2007
– National Competition – official
selection
Tatiana, Barbi, Landryna i Pati are exotic dancers fromSilesia. Their manager is Kazik - fifty-year-old former
mechanic who is now also their driver, advisor and sometimesfather. The dancers comment on surrounding world and drawa conclusion from what has happened to them. The culminat-ing point is their work-oriented trip to Italy.
We get to know four different personalities of femaleprotagonists, their life views, attitudes towards their occupa-tion. These notions are confronted with the question of theirdreams’ viability.
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cinematography Marcin Sauter editing Tymek Wiskirski
sound design Dmitrij Wasiliew, Tomasz Wieczorek
artistic supervising Andrzej Wajda Master School of Film
Directing, ul. Chełmska 21, bld. 24; 00-724 Warsaw,
Poland, phone +48 22 851 10 56,
phone/fax +48 22 851 10 57; e-mail [email protected]
www.wajdaschool.pl produced by Eureka Media,
Smulikowskiego 13/10, 00-384 Warsaw,
phone +48 22 828 48 10, fax +48 22 829 56 73,
e-mail [email protected], www.eurekamedia.info;
www.newgaze.info; Polish Television
producer Krzysztof Kopczyński co-producer Witold Będkows-
ki (Polish Television) co-financing Polish Film Institute and
National Film Institute of the Russian Federation (VGIK)
mini DV, colour, 18’
Poland 2006
Awards: . 46th Kraków Film Festival 2006:
– Polish Television President's Award
for the best director;
– Don Kichot – The International
Federation of Film Societies (FICC)
Award. 36th International Film Festival Lubuskie
Film Summer, Łagów 2006: Grand Prix
Golden Grape – team award for the set
of documentaries for the Zespół
Filmowy Paladino; . International Festival Cinerail – Metro
and Train on Film, Paris, France 2007:
Grand Prix; . International Music and Film Festival –
Mediawave, Györ, Hungary 2007:
Special Jury Prize founded by Hungarian
Minister of Education and Culture
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written and directed by Maciej Cuske
Suburban Train Elektryczka
Film made within theproject “Russia
– Poland. New Gaze”. The director watches the
passengers of the Moscow’ssuburban train with care andtenderness. From the fragments of the conversations, small gestures, gazes, facialexpressions, a portrait of thesociety is composed.
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cinematography Radek Ładczuk music Andrzej Smolik
editing Jacek Tarasiuk sound design Jarek Wójcik
produced by KUIV Michel Rotman & Kalejdoskop Film
Studio, ul. Chełmska 21 bld. 4, 00-724 Warsaw,
phone +48 22 851 17 79, e-mail [email protected],
www.kalejdoskop.art.pl producer Mark Edwards
co-producer Janusz Skałkowski with the participation of Planete
in association with LCP Assemblée nationale, RTBF, SVT,
TSR, TVP SA co-financing Centre Nationale
Cinématographie, Polish Film Institute, the PROCIREP
international distributor KUIV Productions, Mark Edwards,
55 bs, rue de Lyon, 75 012 Paris, France
Digital Beta, colour, 16:9, stereo, 77 min
Poland – France 2006
Festivals:. Premiere: 6th International Film
Festival "Era New Horizons", New
Polish Films Competition
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Children of SolidarnośćPiosenka i życie
August 2005. Poland celebrates the 25th anniversaryof the establishment of Solidarity (Solidarność). One
of the songs sang in 1980 by the striking workers was “ForMy Little Daughter”. This song has become the unofficialanthem of Solidarity. The little daughter is Klementyna. TodayKlementyna, as well as other Solidarity’s children – Kasia,Łukasz and Arthur, is wondering about what has been leftfrom the fight for democracy that her parents fought for thesake of her future.
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Cupboard
written and directed by Jacob Dammas
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cinematography Marcin Sauter, Kamil Płocki
music Stefan Thorsson editing Agnieszka Kowalczyk
sound design Krzysztof Zalewski produced by Andrzej Wajda
Master School of Film Directing, ul. Chełmska 21, bld. 24;
00-724 Warsaw, Poland, phone +48 22 851 10 56,
phone/fax +48 22 851 10 57; e-mail [email protected]
www.wajdaschool.pl; Graniza, Denmark
producer Katarzyna Ślesicka
co-financing Polish Film Institute
miniDV, colour, 26 min
Poland – Denmark 2007
Kredens
Awards: . 4th International Film Festival "Jewish
Motifs", Warsaw 2007:
Bronze Warsaw Phoenix; . 47th Kraków Film Festival 2007:
– Maciej Szumowski Award
(ex aequo with the film "Radek" by
Magnus von Horn),
– Polish Contest Student Jury –
Honourable Mention
Director’s personal journey in search of
traces of the past. JacobDammas, whose parents wereforced to leave Poland at theend of 60s when the communist authorities startedthe witch-hunt against Jews,comes to Wrocław to find anold German cupboard. The oldand heavy piece of furniturehas been standing in the sameappartment for eighty years,serving successive lodgers – from German Protestant sisters, through Polish-Jewishfamily of Jacob, to the contemporary family of PolishCatholics. Until the day thecupboard has disappeared...
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cinematography Henryk Janas music Tadeusz Woźniak
editing Bogdan Saganowski, Zbigniew Osiński
sound design Jacek Stępiński produced by Polish Television,
1st Programme, ul. Woronicza 17, 00-999 Warsaw,
phone +48 22 547 88 91, fax +48 22 547 42 42
executive producer Kalejdoskop Film Studio,
ul. Chełmska 21 bld. 4, 00-724 Warsaw,
phone +48 22 841 21 35, e-mail [email protected],
www.kalejdoskop.art.pl producer Piotr Śliwiński
(Kalejdoskop), Witold Będkowski (TVP)
Betacam SP, colour, 4:3, stereo, 44 min
Poland 2006
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written and directed by Krzysztof Miklaszewski
Eagle PharmacyApteka pod Orłem
Wartime story of a pharmacy incorporated by Germansinto Jewish Ghetto which was established in March
1941. A tribute to pharmacy’s owner – Tadeusz Pankiewiczwho inherited Eagle Pharmacy as well as his profession ofa pharmacist from his ancestors – famous Galician pharmacists.
Pankiewicz, as the only Pole living daily among the Jewishcommunity, had become the guardian and rescuer for manyJews. His pharmacy was regarded as an oasis of freedom andthe chance to survive for many people.
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Gdański Railway Station
director Maria Zmarz-Koczanowicz
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written by Teresa Torańska cinematography Rafał
Paradowski, Andrzej Adamczak music Janusz Stokłosa
editing Grażyna Gradoń sound design Robert Brudziński,
Michał Dominowski produced by Studio Largo,
ul. Szwedzka 74/4, 30-315 Kraków,
phone +48 12 259 09 71, e-mail [email protected];
TVN (television), The Adam Mickiewicz Institute
producer Agnieszka Traczewska
co-financing Polish Film Institute
colour, 55 min
Poland 2006
Dworzec Gdański
An attempt to confront with the painful events of theyear 1968 - the outbreak of anti-Semic hysteria that
resulted in many citizens od Jewish origin leaving Poland. For20 years emigrants have been meeting in Israeli health resortof Ashkelon by the Mediterranean Sea. Thirty seven yearshave passed since they left, yet Poland is still present in theirhomes. Gdański Railway Stadion from which they departed, isnow the symbol of their exile, the symbol of a turning pointthat splits their lives in two parts.
Contemporary stories are intertwined with unique archivematerials.
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cinematography Jacek Knopp music Artur Giordano
editing Zbigniew Osiński, Bogdan Saganowski,
Ryszard Wiencek sound design Jacek Knopp,
Przemysław Książek (Studio Silenzio), Ryszard Wiencek
produced by Polish Television, 2nd Programme,
ul. Woronicza 17, 00-999 Warsaw, Poland
executive producer Link Art, ul. Głęboka 12/51,
20-612 Lublin, phone +48 81 527 28 27,
e-mail [email protected] producer Grzegorz Linkowski
Betacam SP, colour, 16:9, stereo, 23 min
Poland 2007
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written and directed by Grzegorz Linkowski
History of One's ConscienceHistoria pewnego sumienia
Confessions of a former Security Service collaborator - journalist and active member of Christian
Social Association. From 1967 to 1989 under the code-name “Zenon” he collaborated with the 4th Section ofProvincial Department of the Interior in Lublin dealing withthe surveillance of the Catholic Church and alike institutions,especially the Catholic University of Lublin. The film protagonist admits his conscious collaboration and recountsthe nature of his actions. He tries to examine his reasons thatmade him he decide to collaborate.
The account of one’s conscience drama, of emotionsrelated to being informer as well as trying to break with it.
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The Joy of Writing
written and directed by Antoni Krauze
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cinematography Leszek Skuza music Zygmunt Konieczny
editing Artur Wojewoda sound design Krzysztof Suchodolski
produced by Polish Television Kraków for Polish Television
2nd Programme, ul. Woronicza 17, 00-999 Warsaw,
phone +48 22 547 89 03, fax +48 22 547 72 96,
e-mail [email protected], www.international.tvp.pl
producer Jolanta Tokarska
Betacam SP, colour, 52,5 min
Poland 2005
Radość pisania
Festivals: . 46th Kraków Film Festival 2006
– National Competition: official
selection
About Wislawa Szymborska, Nobel Prize winner poetess, speak her firends, including Ewa Lipska
(poetess), Joanna Olczak-Ronikier (writer), Leonard Nauger(Slavist), Bronisław Maj (writer), Pietro Marchesani (translator),Jerzy Illg (publisher), Aleksander Filipowicz (architect) andMichał Rusinek (personal secretary). The poetess herselfreads the fragments of her poetry. In one of them she wrote:“My distinguishing marks are rapture and despair”.
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cinematography Maciej Szafnicki, Michał
Ślusarczyk editing Mirosław Dembiński
sound design Teresa Stępień produced by
Film Studio Everest, Pl. Zwycięstwa 2d/2,
90-312 Łódź, phone/fax +48 42 676 75 41,
e-mail [email protected],
www.studioeverest.pl; Polish Television
– 1st Programme world sales Mette Vorm:
Dr Internationales Sales, Emil Holms
Kanal 20, DK-0999 Kopenhagen, Denmark,
phone +45 35 20 30 40,
fax +45 35 20 39 69, e-mail [email protected]
co-financing Polish Film Institute
35 mm, colour, 51 min
Poland 2006
Awards: . Media Festival "Man in Danger"Łódź 2006: special mention ofthe jury; . National Independent Reviewof Documentary Forms NURTKielce 2006: – Award of the Minister of
Culture, – Students of Theatre and
Film Friends Academic Association at the Świętokrzyska Academy Award; . International Documentary
Film Festival IDFA Amsterdam2006: "The Moviesquad DocU"Award; . DOK Leipzig 2006: MDR Awardfor the Best Film from EasternEurope; . International Festival ofHuman Rights, Paris, France2007: Grand Prix
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written and directed by Mirosław Dembiński
A Lesson of Belarusian Lekcja białoruskiego
In 1991 in Minsk, the HighSchool of Humanities was
founded. Its goal was to promoteBelarusian language and trainingthe future elites of the Belarusianintellectuals. When Lukashenkobecame president, hard timesstarted. After many harassments,the last Belarusian school wasclosed. But the students did notgive up. They still learn in theunderground. The publish anewspaper and records unofficially. During the election,the main protagonist Franek,together with other pupils, worksfor Malinkievich – the oppositionalcandidate. He hands independentnewspapers to the people in thestreets and participates in themanifestations attacked by themilitia. Franek and his friendsbelieve that Belarus will becomea free country.
. International Human RightsDocumentary Film Festival"One World" Prague, Czech2007: – Vaclav Havel' Award – Students' Jury Award "NextGeneration UE"; . 8th International Days ofDocumentary Ciemna"Crossroads of Europe" Lublin2007: Special Award for theBest Polish Film; . International Festival ofTelevision Creativity "PrixVisionica", Wrocław 2007:ARTE Television Special Award; . 47th Kraków Film Festival2007: The President of TheAssociation of PolishFilmmakers Award
Television broadcasts in Poland,Germany, Spain, Croatia, Lithuania,Latvia, Estonia.
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One Day in People's Poland
written and directed by Maciej J. Drygas
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cinematography Maciej J. Drygas
music Paweł Szymański
editing Katarzyna Maciejko-Kowalczyk
sound design Iwo Klimek
produced by Polish Television – Programme 1,
ARTE GEIE, ADR Productions,
Drygas Production,
ul. Limanowskiego 11 m 84, 02-943 Warsaw,
e-mail [email protected]
producer Maciej Drygas
co-financing Film Production Agency, CNC France
black & white, 58 min
Poland – France 2005
Jeden dzień w PRL
Awards:. 46th Krakow Film Festival 2006
– International Contest: Silver Dragon
Award for the Best Documentary. International Documentary Film
Festival, Tai Pei: Jury's Special Mention. Worldfest Independent Film Festival,
Houston 2007: Platinum Remi in the
social-economical matters category
It is 27th of September 1962. On this day nothing particulary special happenedin the PRL (People’s Republic of Poland, the official name of Poland under the
communism).The filmmaker Maciej Drygas presents the reality of the times, using archival
materials found in public records as well as in private archives. The film is a realisticand likewise metaphorical synthesis of everyday life in a Poland ruled by communistsfor nearly half a century. We can see the ridiculous signs of misery and inefficience of“the economy of constant shortage”, gloomy but funny examples of propagandist liesand numerous cases of hidden violence. Thanks to the forces of the communist government, namely: the police, the home army, privileged apparatchiks and tirelesssecret police, total control and monstrous surveillance of society was possible. All thisconstituted an efficient mechanism used to constantly harass innocent citizens.
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written by Andrzej Franaszek
cinematography Rafał Paradowski editing Grażyna Gradoń
sound design Robert Brudziński
produced by Polish Television, 2nd Programme,
ul. Woronicza 17, 00-999 Warsaw,
phone +48 22 547 80 92,
e-mail [email protected],
producer Agnieszka Traczewska
executive producer Studio Filmowe Largo,
mobile +48 601 40 85 30, e-mail [email protected]
co-financing Polish Film Institute
colour, 57 min
Poland 2006
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director Maria Zmarz-Koczanowicz
Philosophy Professor. On Leszek Kołakowski
Profesor. O Leszku Kołakowskim
The portrait of Leszek Kołakowski, an outstandingphilosopher and historian od ideas, contemporary
Polish intellectual. The story of his life – ideological as well aspersonal until 1968 – the year he left Poland. Kołakowski forthe first time agreed to talk about such a difficult topics ashis wartime experience or engagement in Marxist ideology.
Presenting unknown facts from the philosopher’s lifeunique archive recorings are shown, including operationalmaterials of Communist Secret Service.
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The Portraitist
written and directed by Ireneusz Dobrowolski
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cinematography Jacek Taszakowski
music Agata Steczkowska editing Ireneusz Dobrowolski
sound design Marcin Teperek produced by Polish Television,
1st Programme executive producer Grupa Filmowa
Rekontrplan, ul. Belwederska 44, 00-594 Warsaw,
phone +48 22 840 63 22, fax +48 22 841 08 72
producer Anna Dobrowolska
colour, 52’
Poland 2005
Portrecista
Awards: . 3rd Warsaw International Film Festival "Jewish
Motives" 2006: Grand Prix Golden Phoenix of
Warsaw . 46th Kraków Film Festival 2006
– National Competition: Grand Prix Silver Lajkonik . Stockholm International Documentary Film
Festival "Humanity in the World" 2007: Grand
Prix. International Film Festival "DeReel", Victoria,
Australia 2007: Best Documentary Film Award
Wilhelm Brasse, a descendant of the Austrian colonists, famous before the war as a portraitist-photographer,was sent to Auschwitz concentration camp for refusing to sign Reichslist. Supervised by the SS, he created
photographic documentation of the camp - from its creation to the evacuation. He photographed what they told himto photograph: prisoners’ work, criminal medical experiments, portraits of the prisoners for the files. The most of allhe remembers the eyes - hundreds of thousands eyes filled with disbelief, fear, pain, hopelessness. In the documentary he speaks about some of the photos and tells the stories related to them. Wilhelm Brasse never madea single photo after the war. The conversation with the protagonist is illustrated with archive stock and iconography.
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cinematography Tomasz Malinowski
editing Ryszard Krzysztofowicz, Jan Sieczkowski
sound design Janusz Wiechowski
produced by Polish Television – Film Agency,
ul Woronicza 17, 00-999 Warsaw,
phone +48 22 547 81 67,
e-mail [email protected],
producer Ryszard Urbaniak
colour, 59 min
Poland 2006
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written and directed by Agnieszka Arnold
The Rebellious Sage Bunt Janion
Documentary devoted to the most prominentresearcher of literature and romantic culture
– professor Maria Janion. Female protagonist shares herthoughts on the most important questions of the present aswell as notions regarding her own existence. She argues withconstantly current mythology of Polish patriotism, inclinationfor martyrdom and messianic delusion.
Professor Maria Janion has established her own, originalschool of Polish humanities. She has educated at least threegenerations of modern humanists.
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The Runaway
written and directed by Marek Tomasz Pawłowski
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cinematography Jacek Januszyk music Michał Lorenc art direc-
tor Andrzej Czyczyło costume design Krzysztof Kłoskowski
editing Jan Mikołaj Mironowicz sound design Jacek Hamela
cast Marcin Bartosz, Łukasz Bednarz, Grzegorz Czapiński,
Kacper Czyczyło, Roman Kufel, Jakub Pędziwiatr, Mirek
Śmielak, Maciej Ilczuk, Jacek Steciuk, Stanisław Stuła
produced by Zoyda Art Production,
ul. Powstańców 15D/502, 05-091 Warsaw – Ząbki,
phone +48 22 799 92 22, mobile +48 605 10 35 53,
e-mail [email protected]; Polish Television, 1st Programme,
ul. Woronicza 17, 00-999 Warsaw;
phone +48 22 547 81 25, fax +48 22 547 42 42,
e-mail [email protected]
producer Małgorzata Walczak executive producer Zoyda Art
Production co-financing Polish Film Institute
Digital Beta, colour & black and white, 16:9, stereo, 56 min
Poland 2006
Uciekinier
Awards: . 47th Kraków Film Festival 2007
– National Competiton: Audience
Award
Afictionalized documentary about the most daringescape from the Auschwitz concentration camp when
four prisoners escaped taking the SS arms, uniforms and thecommandant’s car.
The story is told by Kazimierz Piechowski, an eighty-year-old who spent after the war ten years in Stalinistprison. Communist authorities imprisoned him for being a soldier in the Home Army. After the communism collapsePiechowski in the age of seventy has become a globetrotter.Until now he has visited sixty countries in all continents.
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written by Stanisław Zawiśliński
cinematography Andrzej Adamczak editing Grażyna Gradoń
on-line editing Marcin Bukojemski
sound design Jerzy Wojciech Pluciński
produced by Es-Media, Łucka 20/1101, 00-854 Warsaw,
phone +48 22 654 17 31; Polish Television – Film Agency,
ul. Woronicza 17, 00-999 Warsaw,
phone +48 22 547 81 67 producers Sławomir Salamon,
Jerzy Jakutowicz co-financing Polish Film Institute
colour, 86 min
Poland 2006
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director Maria Zmarz-Koczanowicz
Still Alive – Film about Krzysztof Kieślowski
Still Alive – film o Krzysztofie Kieślowskim
Afilm portrait of one of the greatest filmmakers ofPolish cinema. People who worked with Krzysztof
Kieślowski speak about their relations with the director. “StillAlive” discusses the phenomenon of the director’s popularityabroad and confronts it with the reception of his work inPoland.
Archive material were used in the documentary: documentation of Kieślowski’s work on the set, his commentaries on his cinema, fragments of documentariesand features. The film was created on the 10th anniversaryof Kieślowski’s death.
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Such Was Our Youth
written and directed by Michał Nekanda-Trepka
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cinematography Andrzej Musiał music Wiktor Podgórski
editing Dorota Wardęszkiewicz, Paweł Deliś
sound design Wojciech Pluciński, Tadeusz Bukowski,
Dariusz Kopciński, Paweł Doroszko
produced by Polish Television, 2nd Programme,
ul. Woronicza 17, 00-999 Warsaw
executive producer Studio Filmowe Everest,
pl. Zwycięstwa 2d nr 2, 90-312 Łódź,
phone/fax +48 42 676 75 41, mobile +48 601 213 630,
e-mail [email protected], www.studioeverest.pl
producer Mirosław Dembiński
colour, 28 min
Poland 2006
To nasza młodość
Awards:. Media Festival "Men in Danger" Łódź
2006: Educational Films and
Programmes Production Company
Award
Amoving documentary about the war trauma of Polish children displaced from Poznan area and Warsaw to the
concentration camp of Gross Rosen during the rise and fall ofthe uprising in 1944. Zenek Cicki was 14 years old when he wasplaced in the concentration camp. Marian Marciniak was 15 yearsold when he was placed in the famous stone pits of GrossRosen. After few months he miraculously escaped and went toanother kommando. Norbert Widok was 18 years old but he hadearlier spent three years in other camps. Wacław Bryjanowskiwas 17 years old. Previously he had been forced to work in a railway wagon factory. Mieczysław Ścieżyński was 16 years oldwhen he became the camp’s prisoner. The film consists of theirmemories. Although many years have passed, their accounts areas vivid as it all happened yesterday.
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cinematography Tomasz Tupalski
music Fiodor Korol-Borodziuk editing Ewa Smal
sound design Łukasz Nowicki, Piotr Żaczek
produced by Film Studio Kalejdoskop, ul. Chełmska 21,
00-724 Warszawa, phone +48 22 851 17 79,
e-mail [email protected];
Polish Television 1st Programme
producer Wojciech Szczudło
co-financing Polish Film Institute
colour, 48’
Poland 2005
Awards:. 46th Kraków Film Festival
2006 – National
Competition:
– Audience Award;
– The President of the
Association of Polish
Filmmakers Award. 8th International Days of
Documentary Cinema
"Crossroads of Europe",
Lublin 2007: Special
Mention. Worldfest Independent
Film Festival, Houston
2007: Bronze Remi in the
category of propagation
of world-wide peace and
understanding
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written and directed by Małgorzata Imielska
Tell Me Why Powiedz mi, dlaczego?
They met in 1936 in Otwock as highschool pupils. The fell in love for
the first time. When the war started, Stellaand Jurek were in serious danger as theywere both Jews. Jurek has arranged for thefalsified gentile papers and joined the conspiracy. Being brave and cunning hesaved himself and helped Stella get out ofthe ghetto. They were secretly married.But later Jurek was arrested by theGermans and sent to a concentrationcamp. He couldn’t contact Stella. Jurekmanaged to survive and started lookingfor his wife after the war was finished. Helearned that Stella had another husbandand left for the USA. After 50 years theyremember their first love. She lives in theUSA, he is in Israel. Jurek wants to meetStella to learn why she left him.
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To Kill Hatred
written and directed by Piotr Morawski
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cinematography Andrzej Adamczak music Jarosław Lublin
editing Bogdan Saganowski sound design Bogdan Żmirek,
Przemysław Jaworski produced by Polish Television
– 1st Programme, ul. Woronicza 17, 00-999 Warsaw,
phone +48 22 547 88 91, fax +48 22 547 42 42,
e-mail [email protected]
producer Mirosław Chojecki, Piotr Weychert
executive producer Media Kontakt, ul. Wilcza 12 C,
00-532 Warsaw, phone +48 22 627 28 31-34,
fax +48 22 622 60 13
e-mail [email protected] www.kontakt.ant.pl
Betacam SP, colour, 4:3, stereo, 23 min
Poland 2006
Zabić w sobie nienawiść
Festivals:. The 8th International Days of
Documentary Cinema "Crossroads of
Europe"
One of the last interviews with Jacek Kuroń recorded shortly before his death. Jacek Kuroń was
one of the leaders of democratic opposition, and the co-founder of the Workers’ Defence Committee. In theinterview Kuroń shares his experience about relationswith the communist Security Service. His account is juxtaposed with the statement of Jan Lesiak – ex SecretService colonel who was the “guardian” of Kuroń in thelast period of PRL.
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cinematography Andrzej Adamczak music Jarosław Lublin
editing Marek Mirkiewicz sound design Marek Głowiński
produced by Media Kontakt, ul. Wilcza 12 C,
00-532 Warsaw, phone +48 22 627 28 31,
e-mail [email protected], [email protected]
producer Mirosław Chojecki
Betacam SP, colour, 4:3, mono, 55 min
Poland 2006
Awards: . IV Jewish Motifs International Film
Festival, Warsaw 2007 – official
selection
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Two Drawers Dwie szuflady
Profesor Michał Głowiński, an outstanding literature theorist and researcher, after PRL collapsed he revealed
himsalf also as an author of publications taking down communistnewspeak. A documentation for his books he has gathered in thedrawer for 25 years, since the middle of 60s. Even longer, in thesecond drawer, waited for publication the wartime events thatfell on Głowiński’s childhood: ghetto, hiding on the Aryan side.After 50 years he wrote it down and published in book “BlackSeasons”.
Two totalitariansm: hitlerism and communism, and two drawers: real one in which he was gathering notes regarding hislife in PRL, and the drawer of remembrance in which he was hiding the memories of the scarriest moments in his life. Thesetwo drawers compose two main plots of the film picturing theman and the world which profesor Głowiński wrote down in hisbooks.
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Financing ofDocumentaries by
Polish Film Institute
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POLISH FILM INSTITUTE
The Polish Film Institute was set up to encourage more
viewers to watch Polish films in addition to restoring the
prestige of our national cinema throughout the world. In 2006
the Institute allocated 78 million PLN to finance 702 projects
in the field of cinema. Among them are 44 feature films
(including 21 international co-productions), 86 documentary
and 16 animated productions. Funds allocated for 2007 –
80,5 million PLN.
The Polish Film Institute commenced functioning in
September 2005, its establishment on the basis of the cine-
matography law introduced a modern system of support for
national film industry; which has successfully operated in
other European countries for many years. A significant feature
of the system is its comprehensiveness; which is facilitating
every phase of movie creation, and its subsequent promotion
and distribution in Poland as well as abroad.
The Polish Film Institute co-finances Polish film ventures; from
the project conception, through development and production,
to promotion and distribution and wider dissemination of film
culture, thus improving cinema infrastructure and elevating
the professional skills of film crews.
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The primary objective of the Polish Film Institute is to assist
the production of the highest possible number of films, not
only those representing a high artistic value but also to those
which may appeal to both Polish and foreign audiences; the
Institute allocates 70% of its resources to this purpose. The
Polish Film Institute also grants special privileges to assist
debutants and to filmmakers willing to produce their second
movie. A separate priority within the Operational Programmes
is devoted to artists who are commencing their film career.
Polski Instytut Sztuki Filmowej
ul. Krakowskie Przedmieście 21/23
00-071 Warszawa
tel. +48 22 42 10 518
fax +48 22 42 10 241
www.pisf.pl
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Documentary film production
Funds allocated for 2007 – 4.5 million PLNFictionalized documentary will be subsidized within
the allocation of the Priority II.
1. The objective of the priority is to supportdocumentary film production.
2. Qualifying project types: Subsidizing documentary film production
3. Condition for subsidy: Full length documentary film:
a) for full length documentary films (over 70 minutes),
primarily intended for public screening in cinemas, the
maximum subsidy cannot exceed 50% of the total budget
or the sum of 2 million PLN;
b) for full length documentary films qualified as difficult,
primarily intended for public screening in cinemas (over 70
minutes), the maximum subsidy cannot exceed 70% of
the total budget or the sum of 800 000 PLN;
c) for full length documentary and low budget films (over 70
minutes), primarily intended for public screening in
cinemas, the maximum subsidy cannot exceed 70% of
the total budget or the sum of 500 000 PLN;
Documentary film: a) for documentary films, the maximum subsidy cannot
exceed 50% of the total budget or the sum of 400 000
PLN;
b) for documentary films qualified as difficult, the maximum
subsidy cannot exceed 70% of the total budget or the
sum of 250 000 PLN;
c) for documentary and low budget films, the maximum
subsidy cannot exceed 50% of the total budget or the
sum of 150 000 PLN;
In certain cases when justified and after following additional
expert guidance, the General Director of the Polish Film
Institute may increase funding beyond the limits given above;
however the amount cannot exceed 50% of the available
subsidy quotas. In the case of international co-productions,
the subsidy may be increased by a further 35%, with the
exception of low budget films which are excluded from this
addition.
In all cases of increased subsidy, following the addition to the
basic quota, the total amount of PFI funding must comply with
the appropriate percentage subsidy limits for any given film
category. For international co-productions, these limits will
only apply to the total amount of financial participation by the
Polish co-producer within the total production budget.
In the case of film projects for which the television
broadcaster is a co-producer, or funds obtained from television
are one of the sources of funding, the producer should attach
to the application the statement of agreement with the
broadcaster. The statement concerning distribution of rights
with the broadcaster should guarantee that the producer
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retains material rights proportionate to the PFI subsidy and his
own contribution. The application should include the value of
rights to multiple film transmission by the broadcaster: the
amount in money, in percentage or as the difference between
the producer and broadcaster’s percentage revenue share in
diverse exploitation fields. The contract with the broadcaster
should describe income division from the sublicense (when the
broadcaster is film co-producer), including the value of rights
and shares retained by the producer.
Moreover, projects that apply for aid in the form of guarantee
or refund loans will be given priority.
4. Beneficiaries: Film producers
5. Selection criteria: While selecting the projects the following criteria will be taken
into consideration:
a) correctness of the application; artistic, educational,
humanistic and ethical values including novelty, exploring
new thematic areas and current social problems; depth of
presented phenomena and making synthesis and general
conclusions, dramatic construction precision;
b) significance for national culture and enhancement of
national tradition as well as Polish language including
reviving Polish cultural achievements, dealing with
important historical subjects, strengthening national
identity and promoting patriotic ideas, presenting regional
richness and diversity;
c) enrichment of European cultural diversity;
d) anticipated results of the venture including audience or
participants diversity;
e) economical and financial conditions for completion of the
undertaking including contribution of non-public and
international funds to the venture budget and anticipated
economic result of the venture;
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f) producer’s and director’s achievements to date including
artistic and economic results of their latest films;
audience frequency at cinemas, sale and rent of
referenced DVD/video cassettes (if refers to), number of
TV transmissions, sale abroad;
g) participation at Polish and international festivals and
festival awards;
h) exploitation fields for the film, confirmed by letters of
intent;
i) in the case of the second film, the assessment of the
debut film;
j) number if debutants involved in the production;
k) level and form of the aid applied for.
6. Conditions of accounting: An applicant is obliged to count subsidies according to
conditions defined in the contract and to submit the following
documents:
a) key stage reports on progress with regard to the schedul
of subsidy stage payment;
b) final report;
c) financial account for the task.
7. Others: A producer is obliged to present the film for the PFI approval.
A producer must place information concerning the PFI subsidy
and the PFI logotype on each film copy. When the producer’s
logo is placed in trailers or other audiovisual advertisements,
similar placement of the PFI logo is also entailed.
When the film is released on VHS, DVD carrier or made
available through VoD or Internet, each carrier and file should
display information on the PFI subsidy (PFI logo) as well as PFI
logo on the DVD and VHS cover.
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Adamek, Maciej 23
Arnesen, Magnus 6
Arnold, Agnieszka 62
Bławut, Jacek 32
Ciszewski, Cezary 15
Cuske Maciej 39, 50
Dammas, Jacob 53
Dembiński, Mirosław 58
Dobrowolski Ireneusz 61
Drygas, Maciej J. 59
Franczak, Radka 27
Gabryjelska, Renata 18
Górska, Monika 21
Grunberg Sławomir 46
Horn, Magnus von 24
Imielska Małgorzata 66
Kasior, Krzysztof 28
Kasperski, Wojciech 26
Kolberger, Julia 29
Komasa, Jan 14
Koszałka, Marcin 12, 31, 45
Kowalczyk, Magda 36
Krauze, Antoni 57
Krawczyk, Marcin Janos 25
Lankosz, Borys 19
Latałło, Marcin 9
Leniec, Adam 10
Lewandowski, Rafael 52
Linkowski, Grzegorz 56
Łoziński, Marcel 48
Łoziński, Paweł 37
Malmqvist, Jennifer 7
Mańkowski, Andrzej 38
Miklaszewski Krzysztof 54
Morawski, Piotr 67
Nekanda-Trepka, Michał 65
Paladino, Thierry 35, 40
Pawluczuk, Monika 20
Pawłowski, Marek Tomasz 63
Pięta, Ewa 46
Popko, Paweł 11
Rogalski, Michał 49
Sauter, Marcin 41, 47
Skalski, Rafał 44
Stasik, Piotr 34, 43
Strękowski, Jan 68
Szołajski, Konrad 13
Szumowska, Małgorzata 22
Titkow, Andrzej 16
Wagner, Jan 30
Wolski, Tomasz 17
Zmarz-Koczanowicz, Maria 55, 60, 64
Zelakeviciute, Vita 8
Index of directors
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On the Road / W drodze 23
On the Sky On Earth / Na niebie na ziemi 39
One Day in People’s Poland / Jeden dzień w PRL 59
Philosophy Professor. On Leszek Kołakowski /Profesor.
O Leszku Kołakowskim 60
Portraitist, The / Portrecista 61
Radek / Radek 24
Rebellious Sage, The / Bunt Janion 62
Rendez-vous / Rendez-vous 25
Runaway, The / Uciekinier 63
Seeds, The / Nasiona 26
Shopkeeper, The / W sklepie 40
Silesia Strips / Śląski interes 49
Stiepan / Stiepan 27
Still Alive – Film about Krzysztof Kieślowski / Still Alive
– film o Krzysztofie Kieślowskim 64
Suburban Train / Elektryczka 50
Such Was Our Youth / To nasza młodość 65
Symbiosis / Symbioza 28
Tactility / Przez dotyk 29
Taking Care / Pod opieką 30
Tell Me Why / Powiedz mi, dlaczego 66
To Kill Hatred / Zabić w sobie nienawiść 67
Travelling Cinema / Kino objazdowe 41
Two Drawers / Dwie szuflady 68
User Friendly Death / Śmierć z ludzką twarzą 31
Warrior, The / Wojownik 32
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4 proposals / 4 oferty matrymonialne 6
7 x Moscow / 7 x Moskwa 43
13 Years and 10 Months / 13 lat i 10 miesięcy 7
52 Percent, The / 52 procent 44
Above Pavements / Ponad chodnikami 34
All Day Together / Cały dzień razem 45
At the Datcha / Na działce 35
Beyond The Wall / Po tamtej stronie 8
Burning Man / Płonący facet 46
By the River / Przy rzece 36
Cat Ladies / Kociary 37
Children of Solidarność / Piosenka i życie 52
Constellations / Konstelacje 9
Cripple_38 / Kaleka_38 10
Cu... Cu... Coo’s Egg / Ku... ku... kułcze jajo 11
Cupboard / Kredens 53
Eagle Pharmacy / Apteka pod Orłem 54
Existence, The / Istnienie 12
First Day, The / Pierwszy dzień 47
Fat to Bed, the Slim to the Ball..., The / Gruba do łóżka,
chuda na bal... 13
Flow, The / Spływ 14
Freedom Is a God-Given Gift / Wolność jest darem Boga 15
Gdański Railway Station / Dworzec Gdański 55
Got It? / Masz już to? 16
History of One’s Conscience / Historia pewnego sumienia 56
Hospital / Klinika 17
How It’s Done / Jak to się robi 48
Janek / Janek 18
Joy of Writing / Radość pisania 57
Kurc / Kurc 19
Lesson of Belarusian, A / Lekcja białoruskiego 58
Models / Modelki 20
Music Lesson, The / Lekcja muzyki 38
My Baby Is an Angel / Moje dziecko jest aniołem 21
Nothing To Be Scared Of / A czego tu się bać 22
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4 oferty matrymonialne / 4 proposals 6
7 x Moskwa / 7 x Moscow 43
13 lat i 10 miesięcy / 13 Years and 10 Months 7
52 procent / 52 Percent, The 44
A czego tu się bać / Nothing To Be Scared Of 22
Apteka pod Orłem / Eagle Pharmacy 54
Bunt Janion / Rebellious Sage, The 62
Cały dzień razem / All Day Together 45
Dwie szuflady / Two Drawers 68
Dworzec Gdański / Gdański Railway Station 55
Elektryczka / Suburban Train 50
Gruba do łóżka, chuda na bal... / Fat to Bed, the Slim to the Ball...,
The 13
Historia pewnego sumienia / History of One’s Conscience 56
Istnienie / Existence, The 12
Jak to się robi / How It’s Done 48
Janek / Janek 18
Jeden dzień w PRL / One Day in People’s Poland 59
Kaleka_38 / Cripple_38 10
Kino objazdowe / Travelling Cinema 41
Klinika / Hospital 17
Kociary / Cat Ladies 37
Konstelacje / Constellations 9
Kredens / Cupboard 53
Ku... ku... kułcze jajo / Cu... Cu... Coo’s Egg 11
Kurc / Kurc 19
Lekcja białoruskiego / Lesson of Belarusian, A 58
Lekcja muzyki / Music Lesson, The 38
Masz już to? / Got It? 16
Modelki / Models / 20
Moje dziecko jest aniołem / My Baby Is an Angel 21
Na działce / At the Datcha 35
Na niebie na ziemi / On the Sky On Earth 39
Nasiona / Seeds, The 26
Pierwszy dzień / First Day, The 47
Piosenka i życie / Children of Solidarność 52
Płonący facet / Burning Man 46
Po tamtej stronie / Beyond The Wall 8
Pod opieką / Taking Care 30
Ponad chodnikami / Above Pavements 34
Portrecista / Portraitist, The 61
Powiedz mi, dlaczego / Tell Me Why 66
Profesor. O Leszku Kołakowskim / Philosophy Professor.
On Leszek Kołakowski 60
Przy rzece / By the River 36
Przez dotyk / Tactility 29
Radek / Radek 24
Radość pisania / Joy of Writing 57
Rendez-vous / Rendez-vous 25
Spływ / Flow, The 14
Stiepan / Stiepan 27
Still Alive – film o Krzysztofie Kieślowskim / Still Alive
– Film about Krzysztof Kieślowski 64
Symbioza / Symbiosis 28
Śląski interes / Silesia Strips 49
Śmierć z ludzką twarzą / User Friendly Death 31
To nasza młodość / Such Was Our Youth 65
Uciekinier / Runaway, The 63
W drodze / On the Road 23
W sklepie / Shopkeeper, The 40
Wojownik / Warrior, The 32
Wolność jest darem Boga / Freedom Is a God-Given Gift 15
Zabić w sobie nienawiść / To Kill Hatred 67
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editors Magda Sendecka, Kinga Gałuszka
translation Agnieszka Kamrowska
photography Andrzej Adamczak, Michał Białożej, Jacek Piotr Bławut,
Cezary Ciszewski, Jacek Drosio, Yori Fabian, Jakub Giza, Sławomir Grunberg,
Jacek Januszyk, Zbyszek Jarosz, Rafał Jerzak, Krzysztof Kasior,
Karina Kleszczewska, Jacek Knopp, Jan Komasa, Monika Kotecka,
Borys Lankosz, Marcin Latałło, Szymon Lenkowski, Kacper Lisowski,
Radek Ładczuk, Tomasz Malinowski, Kate McCullough, Andrzej Musiał,
Henryk Nagrodzki, Piotr Niemyjski, Adam Nocoń, Tomasz Nowak,
Thierry Paladino, Rafał Paradowski, Jacek Petrycki, Piotr Rosołowski,
Marcin Sauter, Wojciech Staroń, Piotr Stasik, Maciej Szafnicki, Józef Szymura,
Michał Ślusarczyk, Jacek Taszakowski, Wojciech Todorow, K. Trajner,
Tomasz Tupalski, Tomasz Wolski
cover photograph Szymon Lenkowski
logo design for the Polish Film Institute Darek Komorek
grafic design LAVENTURA
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Polish 2006/2007
ul. Krakowskie Przedmieście 21/23
00-071 Warsaw, Poland
phone (+48 22) 42 10 518
fax (+48 22) 42 10 241
e-mail [email protected]
www.pisf.pl