Short Films
Screening: (7 Short Films) Sunday October 4th - 2:00 PM
PRL DE LUXE
Crazy Mike organizes trips for international tourists, where he attempts to show the attractions and charm of living in the socialist Polish People’s Republic. With his old-school car, he takes them to Nowa Huta and other relics of the past. He tells stories about nonsenses of that time. Is it educational at all or it is just fun?
Director: Edyta Wróblewska
Screenplay: Edyta Wróblewska
Cinematography: Marcin Sauter, Szymon Lenkowski
Production: Polish Filmmakers Association
Year of production: 2008
Runtime: 15 Min
LONG-DISTANCE RUNNER
This movie tells the story of a retired miner from Silesia. His passion is long-distance running and ultramarathons, which means that he can run up to 380 kilometers in 48 hours. He has almost encircled earth twice, running about 78,000 kilometers. His life and his achievements are impressive. However, he is continually haunted by certain decisions he made in the face of family tragedy.
Director: Jacek Szarański
Screenplay: Jacek Szarański
Cinematography: Dominik Zadęcki
Cast: August Jakubik
Production: Polish Filmmakers Association
Year of production: 2008
Runtime: 20 Min
INBETWEEN
Is there a space for sincerity in between love and loneliness? Alicja is pregnant and she wants to give a birth to the baby. Her partner, Mateusz, for some reasons does not agree with this. He is afraid of being lonely and he will have to face his existential dilemma.
Director: Jose Iglesias Vigil
Screenplay: Jose Iglesias Vigil
Cinematography: Michał Popiel-Machnicki
Cast:Przemyslaw Wasilkowski, Izabela Kuna, Adam Nowojczyk, Tomasz Sobaczak, Grzegorz Mikolajczyk, Grzegorz Piekarski, Michal Szota, Agnieszka Mandat
Production: The National Film, Television and Theater School
Year of production: 2006
Runtime: 17 Min
ESCAPE CITY
“Escape City” is based on the true events of May 8th 2004, when fans of a football club trigger off a violent riot at the campus. The police use live ammunition against them. The movie shows the fight from the “backstage” through fans’ eyes. They need to decide what is more important for them: friends or winning?
Director: Wojciech Kasperski
Screenplay: Wojciech Kasperski
Cinematography: Michał Tywoniuk
Cast: Eryk Lubos, Wojciech Żołądkowicz, Dariusz Kowalski, Magdalena Kuta, Stefan Burczyk, Julia Krynke, Oskar Went- Puzio.
Production: Art.-House Fundation, The National Film, Television and Theater School
Year of production: 2006
Runtime: 17 Min
4 MARRIAGE OFFERS DOCUMENTARY
This film illustrates the portraits of four lonely people, who seek love and luck in their lives. Andrzej has his own business and lives in luxury. Krystyna is a young grandmother, claims popularity, but conquests never end as she wished they would. Ryszard lives with his mother and he feels like a fish in an aquarium, and Agnieszka sacrifises herself to bring up of her son.
Director: Magnus Arnesen
Screenplay: Magnus Arnesen
Cinematography: Roman Chałupnik
Cast:
Production: The National Film, Television and Theater School in Lodz
Year of production: 2007
Runtime: 22 Min
ECHO
Two teenagers murder brutally their friend. Together with the police psychologist they reconstruct past events. They start to realize harmfulness and consequences of what they have done. But only when they meet her parents, they will see the real scale of the crime.
Director: Magnus von Horn
Screenplay: Magnus von Horn
Cinematography: Malgorzata Szylak
Cast: Radomir Respondek, Marek Kossakowski, Piotr Skiba, Ewa Suchanek, Dorota Segda, Mariusz Siudziński, Kamila Sammler, Leon Charewicz
Production: The National Film, Television and Theater School
Year of production: 2008
Runtime: 14 Min
MALL GIRL
This film depicts the troubles of a group of 14-year-old girls, and their quest for money, clothes, cosmetics, cell phones and independence. The girls scour shopping malls for 20 or 30-year-old men, who in return for sex, buy them expensive gifts, and take them for a ride in their sport cars. The main protagonist- Alicja is different from these other girls, called “pussycats”/”eye dolls”/ “chicks”. She does not wear the characteristic white high boots, short skirts, and she has no artificial nails. She is a shy, quite infantile teenager. Life for Alicja changes when she helps Milena, the real queen of pussycats. Milena proposes to take care of Alicja and guides her into the life and environment of the pussycats. Alicja hesitates. The situation gets even more complicated because of Michal, a charming and adorable boy from the same class. Alicja is confronted with adult decisions.
Mall Girls is a short film made by Katarzyna Roslaniec at the Warsaw Film School. She studied economics and law at Gdansk University before pursuing studies in filmmaking at Warsaw Film School and the Andrej Wajda Master School of Film Directing. Recently her first feature film Mall Girls (09) was selected and screen at the Toronto International Film Festival 2009 .
Director: Katarzyna Rosłaniec
Screenplay: Michał Szewczuk
Cinematography: Malgorzata Szylak
Cast: Marta Łącka, Daria Dziewit, Joanna Kościak, Dorota Kiełkowska, Stanisław Banasiuk, Artur Barciś
Production: Warsaw Film School
Year of production: 2006
Runtime: 30 Min