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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


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


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


– 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



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,


for Polish Television – 1st Programme

producer Marcin Kurek, Sylwester Banaszkiewicz


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;



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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,


phone +48 22 547 81 25,


producer Agnieszka Janowska


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


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


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.



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],

[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


Digital Beta, colour & black and white, stereo, 40 min

Poland 2006


– 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


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,


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



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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,


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


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


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


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


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



phone +48 22 851 10 56, phone/fax +48 22 851 10 57;

e-mail [email protected], www.wajdaschool.pl



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;

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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.

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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;



www.wajdaschool.pl producer Katarzyna Ślesicka



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


Poland 2006

Festivals: . 47th Kraków Film Festival 2007


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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.

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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,


phone +48 42 634 58 23, +48 42 634 58 20,


www.filmschool.lodz.pl producer Beata Gzik


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


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,


www.filmschool.lodz.pl producer Andrzej Bednarek

artistic supervisor Tadeusz Pałka


Betacam SP, colour and black & white, 4:3, mono, 14 min

Poland 2006

Awards: . 4th Łódź Film School Student Film


2006: Grand Prix; . XVI The Media Festival "Man in

Danger", Łódź 2006: Honorary

Diploma



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Taking Care Pod opieką

Portrait of a young doctor, who takes care of the incurably ill children, patients of the “Gajusz”

Foundation in Łódź.

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User Friendly Death


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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,


HDV, colour, 4:3, 85 min

Poland 2007

Awards:. 47th Kraków Film Festival 2007


Competition: Honourable Mention

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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;



www.wajdaschool.pl; Centrala Ltd., Odyńca 59/14,

02-644 Warsaw, mobile +48 693 95 02 01,




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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.

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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




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



phone +48 22 851 10 56, phone/fax +48 22 851 10 57;


producer Katarzyna Ślesicka co-financing Polish Film

Institute


Poland 2006

Festivals: . Teheran International Short Film

Festival – official selection

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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,




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,


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,


co-financing Script Agency


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

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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,


phone +48 22 851 10 56, phone/fax +48 22 851 10 57;



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



phone/fax +48 22 851 10 57; e-mail [email protected],

www.wajdaschool.pl producer Katarzyna Ślesicka

co-financing The Adam Mickiewicz Institute


Poland 2006

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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



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;


producer Zbigniew Domagalski


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




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;


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,


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,


www.filmschool.pl producer Krzysztof Kopczyński

co-financing Polish Film Institute, The Adam

Mickiewicz Institute


Poland 2007

Awards: . 5th Łódź Film School Student Film


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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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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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


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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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,


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,



co-financing Polish Film Institute,

The Adam Mickiewicz Institute


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,


www.kalejdoskop.art.pl producer Zbigniew Domagalski

co-produced by Polish Television – Film Agency,


phone +48 22 547 81 67 Polish distributor Gutek Film,

ul. Zamenhofa 1, Warsaw co-financing Polish Film Institute,

Media Programme


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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written and directed by Marcel Łoziński

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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Silesia Strips

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,


www.otofilm.pl executive producers Jacek Kulczycki,

Sławomir Boniecki


Poland 2006

Śląski interes



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,


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;


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,


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


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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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




www.wajdaschool.pl; Graniza, Denmark



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,


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,


www.kalejdoskop.art.pl producer Piotr Śliwiński

(Kalejdoskop), Witold Będkowski (TVP)


Poland 2006

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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


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


Poland 2007

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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


– 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,


[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,



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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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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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,


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



phone +48 22 547 80 92,


[email protected]

producer Agnieszka Traczewska

executive producer Studio Filmowe Largo,

mobile +48 601 40 85 30, e-mail [email protected]


colour, 57 min

Poland 2006

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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,


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producer Ryszard Urbaniak

colour, 59 min

Poland 2006

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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,


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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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,


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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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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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


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


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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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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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,


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


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

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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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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

[email protected]

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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