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Introduction
Ladies and Gentlemen,
Welcome to the 15th edition of CentEast Market, supported by the Polish Film Institute.CentEast was initiated as a Polish-Russian joint venture back in 2005. And we are still friends with my Russian partner, Mr Gindilis, and the man who did the matchmaking, Mr Medvedev. Our friendship is still stronger than politics.
The beginnings were very modest. In 2000 we organised the first edition of Warsaw Screenings, showing a couple of new Polish films with English subtitles to a handful of festival programmers, who attended the Warsaw Film Festival. It worked. Years later Mr Kitanov told me that our little event inspired him to launch Sofia Meetings, which became one of the top events for film professionals in the region.
At some point we introduced presentations of works-in-progress from the region. Again it went well. At some point the Ukrainian film “Tribe”, launched at CentEast, landed at Cannes. This is how the steel was tempered.
This year’s CentEast will be quite modest. The funding decision was made only 16th September. But we hope the future will be bright. Welcome to Warsaw! Stefan Laudyn general manager of the Warsaw Film Foundation
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Table of Contents
Introduction letter by Stefan Laudyn 4
Cent East Market Team 6
Cent East Market Programme 7
Schedule of Cent East Market 8
Venues 12
Map 13
Warsaw Screenings – Feature Films 15
Warsaw Works-In-Progress 22
FIPRESCI Warsaw Critics Project 29
Open Workshop: The Art of Film Editing (by PSM) 31
New talents 35
Doc Lab Poland 42
Cent East Market catalogue:Editors: Alexandra Senn, Małgorzata Dochniak
Layout: Ryszard Miętkiewicz – InsideMaterials supervised by: Fabryka Wyobraźni
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Marta Bałagamatchmaker
Stefan Laudyngeneral manager
of the Warsaw Film Foundation
Małgorzata Dochniak head of Cent East Market
Zofia Kszczotek volunteer
Alexandra Senn Cent East Market assistant
Florentyna Kamusińska Head of guest service
Maja Sałek DCP traffic
Sonia Le Pape Accreditation office
Cent East Market Team
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PROGRAMME
The programme of Cent East Market includes:
Warsaw Screenings – 35th presentations of the newest Polish films (including co-productions) with international potential, to international sales agents, distributors and festival programmers.
Warsaw Works-In-Progress – presentations of selected projects in various stages of production and post-production.
New Talents | Wajda School – presentation of the most interesting projects of the students of the Wajda School (pitchings in Polish).
Doc Lab Poland – a programme for documentary filmmakers (directors and producers) who have already produced their first film. Organized by the Ślesicki Foundation.
Warsaw Next – 9th workshops for young Polish filmmakers, who have at least one short film to their credit; meetings with professionals from Poland and abroad, lectures, participation in CentEast Market.
FIPRESCI Warsaw Critics Project – 14th workshops for young and aspiring Eastern European journalists and film critics, organized in collaboration with the International Federation of Film Critics (FIRPESCI). Tutored by Amber Wilkinson and Tommaso Tocci.
Open Workshop “The Art of Film Editing” – 16th edition of an event for everyone interested in editing, organized with Polish Film Editors Association.
Presentation “Possibilities of cooperation on the Chinese market” – delegation of the Shanghai International Film Festival will talk about the prospects of cooperation with China.
Working with Poland: 30% cash rebate and co-production opportunities – presentation by the Polish Film Institute and 1:1 meetings
Cent East Market is organized by the Warsaw Film Foundation, and our key partner is the Polish Film Institute. E-mail: [email protected]
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CENT EAST MARKET 2019
THURSDAY, 17TH OCTOBER 2019
13:00 – 15:00 Lunch Kinoteka (1st floor)
15:00 – 15:30 Presentation “Possibilities of cooperation on the Chinese market” Kinoteka 6
15:45 – 17:35 Warsaw Screenings – Valley of the Gods (131’) Kinoteka 617:35 – 18:55 Warsaw Screenings – KULT FILM (80') Kinoteka 618:55 – 21:06 Warsaw Screenings – All for my mother (103') Kinoteka 6
FRIDAY, 18TH OCTOBER 2019
11:00 – 13:00Working with Poland: 30% cash rebate and co-production opportunities - presentation by the Polish Film Institute and 1:1 meetings
Kinoteka 5
11:00 – 13:00 New Talents | Wajda School (pitchings in Polish) Kinoteka 6
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch Kinoteka (1st floor)14:00 – 15:30 Works-In-Progress Kinoteka 6 15:30 – 17:15 Warsaw Screenings – Mister T. (104') Kinoteka 617:15 – 19:35 Warsaw Screenings – Proceder (137') Kinoteka 620:00 – 22:00 Networking Event By invitation
SATURDAY, 19TH OCTOBER 2019
11:00 – 13:00 One on one meetings Kinoteka 13:00 – 14:00 Lunch Kinoteka (1st floor)14:00 – 15:15 Warsaw Screenings – I am REN (75') Kinoteka 615:15 – 17:00 Warsaw Screenings – TBA Kinoteka 6
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Venues
INFORMATION DESKKinoteka, 1 Defilad Sq., lobby
CONTACT TO [email protected]
FESTIVAL HOTELSIMPORTANT: breakfast is included, but all extras (mini bar, phone, pay TV, etc.)
the guests cover themselves.Puro Hotel Warsaw, Widok 9, tel. (48-22) 899 80 00Lofthotel Sen Pszczoły, Piękna 66a, tel. 530 333 387
ACCESS TO SCREENINGS – PICK UP YOUR TICKETSYour festival badge gives you access to the selected screenings; the festival badge is valid only with a free ticket, which should be picked up at the accreditation stand at KINOTEKA 10am – 6pm (10:00-18:00), but at least half an hour before the screening; tickets can be collected for the selected screenings on a given day and for the next day only.
FESTIVAL CINEMASMULTIKINO ZŁOTE TARASY is located at 59 Złota Street – screens 1, 2, 3 and 4; on the top floor in the big shopping centre about 250 meters north from your hotel, right behind WARSZAWA CENTRALNA railway station;KINOTEKA is located at The Palace of Culture, the huge Stalinist building across the street – screens 1, 2, 3, 4, and 7; about 350 meters north-east from your hotel;
ON-LINE CINANDO VIDEO LIBRARYwww.cinandovl.com/warsawff
The accredited guests will get a temporary account at the Cinando Video Library, which will be valid from October 10 till November 30, 2019. The Video Library will include features and shorts from this year’s Warsaw Film Festival selection, subject to permission from the right owners. If you haven’t received official email from Cinando, please contact us at [email protected]
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Festival Venues1 Multikino Złote Tarasy, ul. Złota 592 Kinoteka, PKiN, Plac Defilad 1 (Al. Jerozolimskie)3 Hotel Marriott Warsaw, Al. Jerozolimskie 65/794 Kulturalna (Festival Club), PKiN, Plac Defilad 15 PURO HOTEL, Widok 96 LOFTHOTEL Sen Pszczoły, Piękna 66A7 Kino Kultura/sala Rejs, Krakowskie Przedmieście 21/238 LOFTHOTEL Przychodnia, Piękna 219 WARSAW HOSTEL CENTRUM, Emilii Plater 36A
Culture1 Fotoplasticon, Al. Jerozolimskie 512 Foksal Gallery Foundation, ul. Górskiego 1A3 Museum of Contemporary Art, ul. Pańska34 National Philharmonics, ul. Jasna 55 The Palace of Culture and Science, Plac Defilad 16 Raster Gallery, ul. Wspólna 637 Teatr Dramatyczny8 Teatr Polonia, ul. Marszałkowska 569 Teatr Studio, The Palace of Culture, Plac Defilad 110 The Andrzej Mleczko Gallery, ul. Marszałkowska 14011 The Congress Hall, The Palace of Culture12 Zachęta Gallery, Plac Małachowskiego 3
Restaurants1 Bambino (Milk Bar), Krucza 212 Banja Luka, ul. Szkolna 2/43 Barn Burger, Złota 9 & Zgoda 54 Beirut, ul. Poznańska 125 Butchery and Wine, ul Żurawia 226 Cud Miód, ul. Emilii Plater 287 Doppio Cuore, ul Gałczyńskiego 38 Hoża, ul. Hoża 259 Kraken, ul. Poznańska 1210 Mała Gruzja, ul. Nowogrodzka 4011 Mąka i woda, ul. Chmielna 13 A12 Mleczarnia, ul. Nowowiejska 613 Nippon-Kan, ul. Nowogrodzka 47a14 Platter by Karol Okrasa, ul. Emilii Plater 49 (Hotel
InterContinental)15 Radio Cafe, ul. Nowogrodzka 5616 Krowarzywa Vegan Burger, ul. Hoża 29/3117 Tel Aviv, ul. Poznańska 1118 Kieliszki na Hożej, ul. Hoża 41
Bars1 Bar Studio, The Palace of Culture2 Cuda na Kiju (multitap bar), ul. Nowy Świat 6/123 Gorączka Złota, ul.Wilcza 294 Kufle i kapsle (multitap bar), ul. Nowogrodzka 255 Między Nami Cafe, ul. Bracka 206 Znajomi Znajomych, ul. Wilcza 58A7 SPATiF, al. Ujazdowskie 45
Cafés1 Cafe Blikle, Nowy Świat 612 Wedel Chocolate Bar, ul. Szpitalna 83 Ministerstwo Kawy, ul. Marszałkowska 27/354 STOR, Bracka 185 Coffeadesk, Wilcza 42
Shopping1 Cepelia , ul. Marszałkowska 99/1012 Cepelia, Chmielna 83 Dom Braci Jabłkowskich, ul. Bracka 254 Empik, ul. Marszałkowska 116/1225 Empik, ul. Nowy Świat 15/176 WARS SAVA JUNIOR, ul. Marszałkowska 104/1227 Giedroyc Gloves, ul. Śniadeckich 188 Hey Joe (vinyls), ul. Złota 89 Mysia 3 (niche shopping), Mysia 310 Riff (music instruments), Plac Konstytucji 511 Ryszard Baryliński Brushes, ul, Poznańska 2612 Yatta.pl: Centrum Popkultury, ul. Hoża 1913 Złote Tarasy (shopping mall), ul. Złota 59
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Festival Venues1 Multikino Złote Tarasy, ul. Złota 592 Kinoteka, PKiN, Plac Defilad 1 (Al. Jerozolimskie)3 Hotel Marriott Warsaw, Al. Jerozolimskie 65/794 Kulturalna (Festival Club), PKiN, Plac Defilad 15 PURO HOTEL, Widok 96 LOFTHOTEL Sen Pszczoły, Piękna 66A7 Kino Kultura/sala Rejs, Krakowskie Przedmieście 21/238 LOFTHOTEL Przychodnia, Piękna 219 WARSAW HOSTEL CENTRUM, Emilii Plater 36A
Culture1 Fotoplasticon, Al. Jerozolimskie 512 Foksal Gallery Foundation, ul. Górskiego 1A3 Museum of Contemporary Art, ul. Pańska34 National Philharmonics, ul. Jasna 55 The Palace of Culture and Science, Plac Defilad 16 Raster Gallery, ul. Wspólna 637 Teatr Dramatyczny8 Teatr Polonia, ul. Marszałkowska 569 Teatr Studio, The Palace of Culture, Plac Defilad 110 The Andrzej Mleczko Gallery, ul. Marszałkowska 14011 The Congress Hall, The Palace of Culture12 Zachęta Gallery, Plac Małachowskiego 3
Restaurants1 Bambino (Milk Bar), Krucza 212 Banja Luka, ul. Szkolna 2/43 Barn Burger, Złota 9 & Zgoda 54 Beirut, ul. Poznańska 125 Butchery and Wine, ul Żurawia 226 Cud Miód, ul. Emilii Plater 287 Doppio Cuore, ul Gałczyńskiego 38 Hoża, ul. Hoża 259 Kraken, ul. Poznańska 1210 Mała Gruzja, ul. Nowogrodzka 4011 Mąka i woda, ul. Chmielna 13 A12 Mleczarnia, ul. Nowowiejska 613 Nippon-Kan, ul. Nowogrodzka 47a14 Platter by Karol Okrasa, ul. Emilii Plater 49 (Hotel
InterContinental)15 Radio Cafe, ul. Nowogrodzka 5616 Krowarzywa Vegan Burger, ul. Hoża 29/3117 Tel Aviv, ul. Poznańska 1118 Kieliszki na Hożej, ul. Hoża 41
Bars1 Bar Studio, The Palace of Culture2 Cuda na Kiju (multitap bar), ul. Nowy Świat 6/123 Gorączka Złota, ul.Wilcza 294 Kufle i kapsle (multitap bar), ul. Nowogrodzka 255 Między Nami Cafe, ul. Bracka 206 Znajomi Znajomych, ul. Wilcza 58A7 SPATiF, al. Ujazdowskie 45
Cafés1 Cafe Blikle, Nowy Świat 612 Wedel Chocolate Bar, ul. Szpitalna 83 Ministerstwo Kawy, ul. Marszałkowska 27/354 STOR, Bracka 185 Coffeadesk, Wilcza 42
Shopping1 Cepelia , ul. Marszałkowska 99/1012 Cepelia, Chmielna 83 Dom Braci Jabłkowskich, ul. Bracka 254 Empik, ul. Marszałkowska 116/1225 Empik, ul. Nowy Świat 15/176 WARS SAVA JUNIOR, ul. Marszałkowska 104/1227 Giedroyc Gloves, ul. Śniadeckich 188 Hey Joe (vinyls), ul. Złota 89 Mysia 3 (niche shopping), Mysia 310 Riff (music instruments), Plac Konstytucji 511 Ryszard Baryliński Brushes, ul, Poznańska 2612 Yatta.pl: Centrum Popkultury, ul. Hoża 1913 Złote Tarasy (shopping mall), ul. Złota 59
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Warsaw Screenings – Feature Films
English title: All for my motherOriginal title: Wszystko dla mojej matkiDirector: Małgorzata ImielskaCountry of production: Poland Year of production: 2019Running time: 103’Cast: Zofia Domalik, Magdalena Celmer, Jowita Budnik, Malwina Laska, Dobromir Dymecki, Helena Englert, Joanna Połeć, Maria Sobocińska, Zuzanna Puławska, Alicja Czerniewicz, Edyta Januszewska, Halina Rasiakówna, Katarzyna Wajda, Adam Cywka, Małgorzata Buczkowska Producer: Wojciech KabarowskiProduction company: NAIMA FILMContact person: Paulina Duszczyk, [email protected]
Synopsis: Ola is seventeen. Boyish moves, hair falling over her big blue eyes all the time. Bitten nails, arms covered in scars from self-mutilation. Because of her regular running away from the orphanage, the court has placed her at a youth detention centre. She’s got no fancy clothes or expensive phone. Unlike the other girls, she refuses to provide any sexual services to the caretaker in exchange for cigarettes or small sums of money. The only thing she wants is to get her mother back. The girl is an ardent athlete. She believes that once she starts being successful at sports events, her mother will find her. Because she is so “separate” from the world, she becomes a victim of violence. This is the director’s first feature film. Award for best professional acting debut for Zofia Domalik at the Polish Film Festival in Gdynia.
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English title: I am RENOriginal title: Jestem RENDirector: Piotr RyczkoCountry of production: Poland Year of production: 2019Running time: 75’Cast: Marta Król, Janusz Chabior, Olaf Marchwicki, Marcin Sztabiński, Marieta ŻukowskaProducer: Dariusz GłowalaProduction company: Holly Pictures Contact person: Roman Jarosz, [email protected]
Synopsis: Renata, her husband Jan and their son Kamil lead a seemingly happy life out of town. One evening an unexplained event leaves the house in chaos. Jan finds his wife bruised in the shed and Kamil lying on the floor. As none of the two can explain what happened, Jan suggests they go to family therapy. Afraid at first, Renata eventually accepts. They go to a closed counseling centre. During a session with a psychotherapist, Renata informs him that her name is Ren and that she is an android – the latest type of artificial intelligence, error-free and fully emotive... A sci-fi thriller featuring Marta Król, Marieta Żukowska and Janusz Chabior.
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English title: KULT FILMOriginal title: KULT FILMDirector: Olga BieniekCountry of production: Poland Year of production: 2019Running time: 80’Producer: Małgorzata MałysaProduction company: FILMICONContact person: Małgorzata Małysa [email protected]
Synopsis: A story about KULT, a band whose success is largely based on an idea that also became the title of one of their songs: “Your word is true”. You can love or hate this truth, but you cannot remain indifferent. KULT: creative power, the capacity to bring in crowds, four decades on the Polish music scene and the status of one of the greatest and most popular Polish rock bands in the history of the genre. Being on tour is these musicians’ natural environment. That is why a tour forms the narrative framework for this story. It is an element of their daily lives. “This is not a film about the band’s history. We watch them in a way that enables us to get closer to them. I don’t think anyone has been this close before. Even me, although I am a fan, love them and have a soft spot for all of them” – Olga Bieniek
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English title: Mister T.Original title: Pan T. Director: Marcin KrzyształowiczCountry of production: Poland Year of production: 2019Running time: 104’Cast: Paweł Wilczak, Maria Sobocińska, Katarzyna Gniewkowska, Wojciech Mencwaldowski, Jacek Braciak, Sebastian StankiewiczProducer: Jarosław BolińskiProduction company: PROPELLER Production House of ColoursContact person: Jarosław Boliński, [email protected]
Synopsis: A writer on the front line of the war against the system. Full of dark humour, sex and emotions, this is a surprisingly contemporary story about Poland from absurd times when the improbable was quite possible. Saturated with nostalgia, it takes us into an extraordinary world in which famous writers and poets from the artistic bohemia sat around in eateries and cafés, furtively commenting on the evils of the world around them. Starring a transformed Pawel Wilczak making a great comeback. The excellent cast includes stars such as Sebastian Stankiewicz, Marysia Sobocińska, Wojciech Mecwaldowski, Jacek Braciak, Jerzy Bończak, Eryk Lubos, Katarzyna Warnke, Bartłomiej Topa, Wiktor Zborowski, Jan Nowicki and many others. Expect some acting surprises as well, including a daring scene featuring Jacek Fedorowicz, Kazimierz Kutz and Leszek Balcerowicz, and Michał Urbaniak giving a brilliant performance of his own jazz composition “Mister T.”.
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English title: ProcederOriginal title: ProcederDirector: Michał WęgrzynCountry of production: Poland Year of production: 2019Running time: 137’ Cast: Piotr Witkowski, Agnieszka Więdłocha, Ewa Ziętek, Antoni Pawlicki, Małgorzata Kożuchowska, Jan Frycz, Gabriela MuskałaProducer: Heathcliff Janusz Iwanowski, Jolanta OwczarczykProduction company: Global StudioContact person: Jolanta Owczarczyk, [email protected], Janusz Iwanowski, [email protected]
Synopsis: The moving story of rapper Tomasz Chada (1978-2018), a guy from a high-rise housing estate who had the soul of a poet and a talent for getting into serious trouble. Genuine and painfully honest in his lyrics, Chada died in unexplained circumstances, leaving behind his shocked fans and the girl he loved. Music was his whole life – his passion and a world where he would take refuge whenever reality did not have much to offer. “He had and still has a group of devotees and continuators. His texts were often crude, but it wasn’t crudeness for its own sake; these were very personal and stylistically distinctive pieces. Many rappers learned from him. He has many imitators, some better, some worse, but as far as lyrics are concerned, he defined standards that are still alive today” – Michał Węgrzyn. The title refers to the rapper’s first album. Piotr Witkowski plays the lead role.
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English title: Valley of the GodsOriginal title: Dolina BogówDirector: Lech MajewskiCountry of production: Poland, Luxemburg, USA Year of production: 2019Running time: 131’ Cast: John Malkovich, Josh Hartnett, Jaime Ray NewmanProducer: Lech Majewski, Filip Jan RymszaProduction company: Royal Road EntertainmentContact person: Lech Majewski [email protected], Filip Rymsza [email protected]
Synopsis: The film weaves together three narrative threads: the first one is an archaic legend of the Navajo Indians, about gods who populate the Valley of the Gods as rock monuments. The second one is the story of the wealthiest man, Wes Tauros. Suffering from a personal tragedy, Tauros lives hidden away from the world and makes a public appearance only from time to time. The third story is that of the narrator, John Ecas, who works as a copywriter at Tauros’s company. After a traumatic split from his wife and looking for a way out of a dead end, John starts writing his boss’s biography and accepts an invitation to his mansion. At this time Tauros’s company, which mines uranium ore, buys the Valley of the Gods to bore tunnels through the sacred land. The shattered peace of Navajo ancestors makes the rocks give birth to an avenger… A fascinating, mysterious, beautiful and peculiar vision of America.
WORKS-IN-PROGRESS
English title: Inner WarsOriginal title: Inner Wars
Director: Masha KondakovaCountry of production: Ukraine, FranceYear of production: 2019Running time: 73’ Cast: Valeria Burlakova, Elena Lubinetska, Irena IvanushProducer: Julien Berlan, Elsa RakotosonProducers: Volodomir Philippov, Andryi Suyarko, Alla OvsyannikovaProduction company: Insight Media and HirviContact person: Julien Berlan, +33 6 08 40 78 68, [email protected] Synopsis: Since the uprising of a pro Russian insurgency in eastern Ukraine in 2014, hundreds of woman joined the army. Only a few made it to the front line. Filmmaker Masha embeds herself in the war zone to follow the daily life of three of them. By sharing the intimacy of these fighters, Masha soon becomes a victim of this brotherhood conflict jeopardizing this film and her life.
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English title: Irkutsk by Ivan VyrypaevOriginal title: Irkutsk by Ivan Vyrypaev
Director: Anastasiya Zverkova, Yuri YashnikovCountry of production: RussiaYear of production: 2020Running time: 52-70’
Cast: Ivan Vyrypaev, Karolina Gruszka, Borys SzycProducer: Yuri YashnikovProduction company: Yuri Yashnikov Film CompanyContact person: Yuri Yashnikov [email protected]
Synopsis: Irkutsk by Ivan Vyrypaev explores the perpetual conflict between an artist and the backwater land that birthed and rejected him for disturbing its peace. Ivan was born in the USSR and remembers his hometown Irkutsk of that time well. His youth came at the end of the 1980s, the beginning of the 1990s. Crime was thriving in Russia, and drugs began to appear in school. Now in the city cemetery there are rows of graves of school friends of Ivan, died from drugs. “The death toll from heroin was almost like WWII”, the playwright recalled, “and the local drama theatre went on with performing Lope de Vega’s plays with there huge fake mustaches!”. The film tells how young Ivan tried to change the theatre in his city, but failed and was forced to leave Siberia forever.
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English title: I Work at the CementaryOriginal title: Я працюю на цвинтарі
Director: Alexey TaranenkoCountry of production: UkraineYear of production: July 2020Running time: 100’
Cast: Vitalii Salii, Wiktoria Gorodecka, Anna IvanovaProducers: Andrii Kornienko, Artem Koliubaiev, Maksim LeshchankaProduction companies: Good Morning Film (Ukraine), Mainstream Pictures (Ukraine), Stewopol Ms Sp.z.o.o. (Poland)Contact person: Oleksandr Zakhliupanyi, [email protected], +30976884779
Synopsis: You are 35, you are alone, you are bad-tempered, with a tragic mystery in the past and an impudent teenage daughter in the present. You want to run away from life and find a quiet place at the cemetery, selling tombstones to the relatives of the deceased and hoping that here for sure nobody will bother you. But the life and those who really care for you have quite different plans. Since even at the cemetery the life goes on, and you find yourself surrounded by quite alive people – philosophically-spirited colleagues, eccentric customers, real mobsters and just lunatics. Well, and don’t forget about your almost grown-up daughter, who needs a father. Forgiving the mistakes, learning to love and to stop being afraid of life – it is rather difficult to cope with at the cemetery, but it is quite possible. Even though it sometimes seems that the cemetery is not outside, but inside of you.
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English title: Masters of the Planet Original title: Jedyny gatunek w rodzaju człowieka
Director: Piotr ChrzanCountry of production: PolandYear of production: 2020Running time: 120 min
Cast: Jowita Budnik, Ewa Skibińska, Marek Kalita, Cezary KosińskiProducer: Aleksandra ZakrzewskaProduction company: Human Power Contact person: Aleksandra Zakrzewska +48504468180, [email protected]
Synopsis: On a sunny summer morning, a day before the wedding, the groom's parents visit the bride's parents at their summer house.They all quickly discover that it is not their spouses who are their soul mates. As a result of the meeting, the couples reshuffle and two new relationships are formed. They start to drift away from each other, especially after their children’s text message saying that the wedding is called off, as the bride and groom got in an argument and broke up.One of the couples starts behaving as if it took over the bride and groom’s place. They practice their dance, taste wedding dishes, and finally, begin to interfere with the wedding decoration. The other couple tries to restore everything to its original state, to eventually respond with aggression, giving rise to a rapidly escalating conflict.
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English title: ParquetOriginal title: Parquet
Director: Aleksandr Mindadze Country of production: Russia, Poland, UK, Romania Year of production: 2020 Running time: 95’ Cast: Andrzej Chyra, Agata Kulesza, Evgeniya Dodina Producers: Aleksandr Mindadze, Liza Antonova, Denis Krupnov Co-producers: Bartłomiej Gliński, Maciej Hamela Production company: Passenger Studio, Impakt Film, REASON8 Films Contact person: Anna Krupnova, [email protected] Synopsis: A story of three dancers, the creators of the tango à trois, who reunite at a gala event 25 years after breaking up. Now middle-aged, they see this opportunity as their last chance to re-live their youth and to re-ignite their past love.
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English title: PulseOriginal title: Пульс
Director: Sergii ChebotarenkoCountry of production: UkraineYear of production: 2019Running time: 90
Cast: Natalia Babenko, Stanislav Boklan, Lilia Rebrik, Oleksandr Kobzar, Akhtem SeitablayevProducer: Egor OlesovProduction company: Limited Liability Company «Filmmaker» StudioContact person: Nataliia Yukhno, [email protected]
Synopsis: Oksana lives in a small city in Ukraine, loves athletics and plays the cello. But one day she gets into a terrible car crash with her parents. All passengers are severely injured, and Oksana almost loses sight. Next months she spends in reanimation in total darkness, and later she starts seeing silhouettes. She is also broken inside and only after a year of rehabilitation she decides to prove that she isn’t a “cripple”. She starts training and dreaming about the Olympics. She goes to the Ukrainian running championship, but finishes only the fifth. The coach gives up on her, but Oksana decides not to give up and moves to a big city. After a few difficult months she finds a new coach. Luckily, her coach starts working with the Paralympic team and after a medical examination it turns out that Oksana can run as a bad vision athlete.After exhausting trainings and victories in European championships she goes to Beijing Paralympic Games where she wins a gold medal at a distance of 100 meters.
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Warsaw Critics Project
Warsaw Film Foundation and FIPRESCI training programme for young film journalists and film critics from Central and Eastern Europe. The 14th edition of the workshop will be held October 11-20, 2019 within the frames of 35th Warsaw Film Festival.
A group of young and carefully selected critics from Central and Eastern Europe will cover the festival and industry events, delivering film reviews and interviews for our partners – Cineuropa and FilmNewEurope, meet high-profile film professionals, take part in the deliberations of the festival’s FIPRESCI jury and present a special YOUNG FIPRESCI PRIZE for the best debut from Central and Eastern Europe.
Our aim is to create an opportunity for participants, who usually have little chance to go abroad and work in their profession, to work with world-class professionals and have contact with world-class movie journalism.
FIPRESCI Warsaw Critics Project involves young film critics, who will be invited to the event and work under the editorial guidance of FIPRESCI members.
The organizers will team-up with FilmNewEurope to give more exposure and promote emerging journalist talents. Workshops are designed for critics under the age of 30 with proficiency skills in written and spoken English.
Previous participants include journalists currently contributing to major film and trade magazines, such as Screen International, IndieWire, The Hollywood Reporter, Cineuropa.
Workshop coordinator: Małgorzata Dochniak, [email protected]
FIPRESCI Warsaw Critics Project
FIPRESCI Warsaw Critics Project – TutorsTommaso Tocci is based in Italy, where he works as a film critic and translator covering film festivals across Europe for international publications. He has also worked for Berlinale Talents and for the Edinburgh International Film Festi-
val, and he currently serves as Co-Programmer for the Saas-Fee Film Festival in Switzerland.
Amber Wilkinson is a journalist with more than 20 years expe-rience. She is the co-founder and editorial director of UK-based website Eye For Film. Her byline has appeared in The Times, Daily Telegraph, Sydney Morning Herald and Filmmaker
Magazine among others. She also contributes as a freelance film critic on BBC Radio Scotland. She has run several FIPRESCI young critics’ workshops and mentored student critics at the Edinburgh Interna-tional Film Festival in 2018 and 2019.
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FIPRESCI Warsaw Critics Project – Participants
Lemana Filandra is a writer and ed-itor at “Klifhenger” (www.klifhenger.com), a site dedicated to movie anal-yses in Bosnian and English. She has been working as a freelance writer, a researcher, and a translator for the last three years. Currently, she is working on a PhD thesis in philoso-phy, focused on intersectional femi-nism and political implications of the concept of body. In the past she had different professional engagements at Sarajevo Film Festival, one of the most prominent European festivals. She also worked as a producer of a music video, a script supervisor and an assistant to a movie director.
Levan Tskhovrebadze is a student of film studies in Ilia State University, Georgia. He has written and made other kind of journalistic content for Georgian outlets like Indigo, Cinema-nia.ge or Demo.ge. Recently he start-ed working for Ilia State University online publication Cinexpress.iliau-ni.edu.ge where he writes reviews, articles and also translates some of the important articles or interviews about cinema into Georgian. He has covered few festivals as a film critic. He was doing video blogs for Berlin International Film Festival 2019th edition and has made some content at CinéDOC-Tbilisi and Batumi Inter-national Art-House Film Festival. Cin-express is also the Ilia State Universi-ty’s Film Club where he made public reports before screenings.
Oleksandra Povoroznyk is a film critic and journalist based in Kyiv, Ukraine. She is currently working for Vertigo.com.ua, one of the largest Ukrainian websites devoted to the film industry and entertainment in general. She is also the host of two podcasts about movies and TV.
Denisa Jašová is a PhD student of Audiovisual Studies at Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava. As a Film Studies and Archival Science graduate, she specializes on archi-val research in film and TV history, especially on Czechoslovak ama-teur film and TV non-fiction pro-grammes from 70s and 80s. She also works as a researcher for TV documentaries, as a librarian in the Central European House of Pho-tography and as a talk show host in student radio talk show called Cinefil. She frequently writes for magazine Film.sk, IFF Cinematik Piešťany and her first paper about the history of Slovak amateur film will be released in October 2019 in Kino-Ikon magazine. She simply loves film archives.
Bogdan Balla is a Romanian exper-imental film director and freelance film critic based in Bucharest. He studies film directing at the Na-tional University of Theatre and Film and writes for FILM MENU. Besides directing and producing his own films, he also works as an independent freelance film critic. He reads bell hooks and is passion-ate about queer cinema. He has a preference for working with archi-val footage for his films.
Svetlana Semenchuk is an author of such publications on cinema as “Seanse”, “The Art of Cinema”, “Cinema TV” and other. The au-thor-composer of the books “S. M. Eisenstein: pro et contra: Sergey Eisenstein in national reflection: anthology” and “E. F. Bauer: pro et contra. Eugene Frantsevich Bauer in assessments of contemporar-ies, colleagues, researchers, film critics. Anthology”. Teacher of the St. Petersburg New Cinema School, and at the St. Petersburg State Uni-versity of Cinema and Television.
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Polish Association of Film Editors
THE POLISH ASSOCIATION OF FILM EDITORS
The Polish Association of Film Editors (PSM) is an organization founded in 2004 to represent film editors who perceive themselves as active participants in the creative process of filmmaking, want to develop the craft of film editing and to advance the prestige and dignity of their profession. PSM members include renowned editors, co-creators of great feature films and documentaries, academic teachers, winners of the Polish Feature Film Festival in Gdynia and the Polish Film Awards. The goals of the Association are to advance the art and science of film editing; to aim for the highest artistic and professional standards in the field; to encourage dialogue with other filmmakers, to educate the general public and to join initiatives aimed at developing and promoting Polish film art.
THE ART OF FILM EDITING A series of workshops organized by The Polish Association of Film Editors (PSM) for the Warsaw Film Festival since 2003.The purpose of workshops is to familiarize participants with the significance of editing process, its impact on the final form of a film and the role of the editor as co-creator of a film. The workshop is usually a study-case with a presentation and analysis of different cuts and practical demonstration of scene editing. The Polish Association of Film Editors (PSM)Polskie Stowarzyszenie Montażystów PSM30 lok. 600, Kopernika St., 00-336 Warsaw, Poland+48 22 827 38 17, +48 510 255 [email protected] www.facebook.com/PolskieStowarzyszenieMontazystow
Open Workshop: The Art of Film Editing (by PSM)
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XVI EDITING WORKSHOPorganized by the Polish Association of Film Editors PSM
Wed., October 16th, 2019, 10:30-13:30Kinoteka room 2, The Palace of Culture and Science, Warsaw
THE ART OF EDITING – „IKAR’S FLIGHT”
„Ikar. The Legend of Mietek Kosz” - edited by Piotr KmiecikPiotr Kmiecik, a member of the Polish Association of Film Editors, Polish Film Academy, and European Film Academy is renown for working on films such as „Chrzest” (2011) directed by Marcin Wrona (won the individual Editing Prize at the Polish Narrative Film Festival), „Demon” (2015), „Konwój” (2016), as well as the TV series „Wataha” (2017), „Kruk” (2018), and „Żmijowisko” (2019).„Ikar. The Legend of Mietek Kosz” (2019) directed by Maciej Pieprzyca is a story of a blind piano genius who loses his sight as a young boy, while being cared for by nuns in a small town of Laski. Mietek (Dawid Ogrodnik) becomes an excellent classical pianist. However, once he discovers jazz (music by Leszek Możdżer), he’s left with a single goal: to become the best jazz pianist, not only in Poland, but in the whole world. He wins the prestigious Montreaux Jazz Festival. Suddenly, he meets a charismatic vocalist. It’s the kind of meeting that will change his life.„Ikar” is a film about a jazz artist, a rebel struggling against life’s odds. It’s a story about loneliness and about searching for love.
Piotr Kmiecik will be talking about the creative work of editing the film’s structure, his inspirations, and analogies to the structure of a jazz piece. He will walk the audience through the process of editing selected music and dialogue scenes based on consecutive editing versions as well as present various ways of condensing the screen time.
The film’s premiere is planned for October 18th, 2019.
An interview with Piotr Kmiecik, „Talking jazz on the film „Ikar. The Legend of Mietek Kosz” will be available in Film&TV Kamera 03/2019. The Polish Association of Film Editors (PSM) is an organization founded in 2004 to represent film editors who perceive themselves as active participants in the creative process of filmmaking, want to develop the craft of film editing and to advance the prestige and dignity of their profession. PSMmembers include renowned editors, co-creators of great feature films and documentaries, academic teachers, winners of the Polish Feature Film Festival in Gdynia and the Polish Film Awards.
The goals of the Association are to advance the art and science of film editing; to aim for the highest artistic and professional standards in the field; to encourage dialogue with other filmmakers, to educate the general public and to join initiatives aimed at developing and promoting Polish film art.
The Polish Association of Film Editors PSMul. Mikołaja Kopernika 30, lok. 600
00-336 Warszawa [email protected]
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SIFF is a non-specialized competitive international film festival recognized by the International Federation of Film Producers Associations. 22 editions have been held so far. In the process, supported by the rapid development of China’s film industry and the construction of Shanghai into an international cultural metropolis, SIFF has been building a professional and authoritative cultural exchange platform for foreign and domestic films.
SIFF MARKET, as one of the major activities of SIFF, has won good reputation for being international, professional and forward-looking every year, attracting premium domestic and foreign exhibitors along the whole industry chain. Various market events also contribute to the enriched and diversified experience of visitors to the Market. SIFF MARKET initiates SIFF Co-Production Market in 2018 aiming at providing opportunities for Chinese and foreign film producers and facilitates market transactions. The program mainly features Master Class, Pitches of The Film Projects and Producers’ Meeting.
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New talents
Wajda School was established in 2002 by two masters of Polish cinema – Andrzej Wajda & Wojciech Marczewski. It provides unique training courses for film professionals, combining education and film production, as well as professional artistic supervision from leading Polish and European filmmakers. The school places great emphasis on international collaboration and co-productions and enjoys the honorary patronage of the European Film Academy. We are a bridge between film school and the professional film market, and a key part of our work is helping young artists to bring their film projects to fruition. WAJDA SCHOOL | NEW TALENTSis an event presentation of selected projects developed during the feature film, documentary, script and creative development courses based on a pitching format. The presentation will be led by Joanna Malicka – a lecturer at Wajda School on the CREATIVE DEVELOPMENT course. She is a film producer, production manager, film expert and journalist who, after completing a film studies course at the University of Silesia (1996-2001), went on to study film production at the Polish National Film School in Łódź (2008-2011) and then completed a creative producers course at the Wajda School (2011). She worked as a sales agent for several years and has been lecturing at the Faculty of Radio and Television of the University of Silesia since 2012. She runs her own company which produces short films and develops documentary projects, and also collaborates with No Sugar Films. She has written a number of texts on the history of contemporary cinema.
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JA SŁYSZĘ! / I CAN HEAR! – Agnieszka Kot The story of 14-year-old Nastka, a young girl who dreams about singing. Left paralysed after an accident, she meets Andrzej – a 15-year-old pianist with Asperger’s syndrome whose whole world revolves around sound. Meeting him and adjusting to her new circumstances mean that for the first time in her life Nastka will have to look inside herself and start making difficult, but informed and mature, decisions.Project developed as part of the DEVELOPMENT LAB feature film course. Feature film for young audiences at the script development stage. Co-producers sought. Contact: [email protected] Kot – a graduate in Visual Production at the Katowice Film School and Psychology at the Jagiellonian University. She has made many short films, music videos and documentaries and currently, in addition to her work on her debut, she is in the process of making a short film.
DYJAK / DYJAK– Arkadiusz Bartosiak The story of artist Marek Dyjak’s struggles with his own traumatic past, this is a film about trying to find a new life and regaining contact with your only child. While making his new album, Dyjak dreams about singing one of the songs on the album with his daughter. It’s a portrait of an extraordinary artist, but also a film about the path to redemption and the chance to make amends. Project developed as part of the DOC PRO documentary course.Documentary at the pre-production stage. Production: Kalejdoskop Film.Sought: co-producers, partners, investors, broadcasters. Contact: [email protected] Bartosiak is a graduate of the Faculty of Economic Sciences at the University of Warsaw and of directing at the Warsaw Film School. He worked as a reporter and foreign correspondent for many years and he has written three non-fiction journalistic books. He is a director of short films, documentaries and commercials.
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STADO / THE HERD – Ewelina NakielskaThe hero of the film is an 11-year-old autistic boy whose parents are unable to cope with his aggressive behavior and so they decide to put him in a special centre. The boy wants to stop them from sending him there but since he’s unable to communicate with them in the real world, he enters a magical land where he contacts his parents’ inner selves as children – Little Mom and Little Dad. Together, they set off on a journey to a kingdom where the Queen pulls out the eyes, ears, tongues and hearts of children.Project developed as part of the SCRIPT screenwriting course. Full-length fantasy drama at the treatment development stage. Producer sought. Contact: [email protected] Nakielska graduated in culture and literature at the Faculty of English at the University of Silesia and in directing at the University of Technology in Katowice. She has written several texts and made short films which have been shown and awarded at many festivals – including her film The Inquest. In 2015, she was nominated for a Jan Machulski Polish Independent Cinema Award for Best Editing.
WIELOMIŁOŚĆ /POLYLOVING – Joanna RatajczakDo you know that moment in a happy, stable, long-term relationship when the question suddenly arises: is this all there is? Will I really only be with this person for the rest of my life and do I really have to give up making new acquaintances, having new adventures, and feeling the excitement which comes from getting to know another person – their world, their sensitivity, their body? It is at this moment that the viewer meets Alka and Sebastian, a loving couple with two children. After 15 years together, they have decided to have an open, polyamorous relationship. This film is an intimate story about a couple’s search for a new kind of closeness. Project developed as part of the DOC PRO documentary course.The film is at the stage of documentation and searching for financing. Contact: [email protected] Ratajczak. After studying journalism in Poznań, Joanna went to Berlin, where she continued her education and also gained professional experience in the German media. After almost 20 years, she returned to Warsaw. PolyLoving is her directorial debut.
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MOKRADEŁKO / THE SWAMP – Kamila TaraburaWith a script based on the reportage book by Katarzyna Surmiak-Domańska, this is a psychological drama, with elements of a thriller, looking at the stories of three women as they struggle with family trauma. The script won an award at the Script Wars festival. Project developed as part of the DEVELOPMENT LAB feature film course.A feature-length film at the stage of working on the script. Producer sought. Contact: [email protected] Tarabura – director and screenwriter. The creator of music videos and social campaigns, she has also gained experience on film sets as an assistant director. She is currently making her own 30-minute film in the Munk Studio and is working on a full-length screenplay.
POSKROMIENIE ZŁOŚNICY / THE TAMING OF THE SHREW – Katarzyna SzyngieraA young Ukrainian director arrives at a provincial Polish theatre to prepare the premiere of a feminist piece. She encounters a number of difficulties: a chauvinistic managing director, a conservative group of actors and technicians full of national prejudice. Just like in Agnieszka Holland’s Provincial Actors, the theatre group here is a metaphor for society, which The Taming of the Shrew uses to analyse the mechanisms of its patriarchal structure. Project developed as part of the DEVELOPMENT LAB feature film course.A feature-length film at the stage of working on the script. Financing sought. Contact: [email protected] Szyngiera – a director and graduate of the Drama Directing Department of the State Theatre School in Kraków. Keenly involved in documentary and political theatre, she initiated the Women Refugees Project as part of the Warsaw Biennale in 2019. She has written a number of pieces for the theatre, including We Will Not Give up Lviv! (the Wanda Siemaszkowa Theatre in Rzeszów), God in the Home and Swarka (Polish Theatre in Bydgoszcz) created on the basis of reportages which she co-wrote with Mirosław Wlekły (published in the Gazeta Wyborcza’s “Large Format” magazine, among others). She made the television play Zgaga as part of the project run by WFDiF Documentary and Feature Film Studios entitled Teatroteka.
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AMERYKAŃSKI SEN / AMERICAN DREAM – Marek SkrzeczA film inspired by real events, it tells the story of Szymon, a teenager who, due to his lack of prospects and to spite his father, wants to break free from the small town where he lives. One day, he decides to become an American wrestler. Project developed as part of the DEVELOPMENT LAB feature film course.A feature-length comedy drama at the stage of working on the script. Sought: producer and screenwriter who will help in the further development of the project.Contact: [email protected] Skrzecz. A film director and editor, he is a graduate of the Film and Television Academy. He has made several award-winning music videos and documentaries, and also collaborated with the Warsaw-based GPAS Praga Północ foundation where he conducted film workshops for difficult youngsters. His documentary film ‘American Dream’ received the Audience Award at the 33rd Warsaw Film Festival. American Dream was also distributed in Polish cinemas and was included on the list of the best Polish shorts of 2018.
SPARING / SPARRING – Piotr DylewskiThe story of a young amateur boxing champion who becomes involved in a tragedy during a national team training camp before the European Championships and ends up being wrongly blamed by most of his teammates and also the coach. Project developed as part of the DEVELOPMENT LAB feature film course.A feature-length film at an early stage of development. Sought: scriptwriter and producer. Contact: [email protected] Dylewski. A graduate of the Directing Department of the Kieślowski Film School in Katowice, and a non-practicing psychologist. He loves boxing, kickboxing and black humour, and enjoys playing with film genres, as he did in his short The Constructor. His feature debut, Rotten Ears, a completely independent production, won the script award at the ‘Youth and Film’ Film Debuts Festival in Koszalin.
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BĘDZIESZ SZCZĘŚLIWA / YOU WILL BE HAPPY – Rafał SakowskiA story about discovering your own identity, searching for passion and exceeding your own limits. The heroine of the film is Justyna, a blind girl who is moved by the words of the well-known Kraków fortune-teller Dzidzianna Solska – “a completely untapped talent” – and as a result sets off on a journey through magical Kraków where she meets places and people who bring hope and new inspiration to her life.Project developed as part of the CREATIVE DEVELOPMENT course for producers.A documentary at the development stage. Sought: TV broadcaster, sales agent, co-producers. Contact: [email protected]ł Sakowski. An aspiring film producer, he is currently completing his feature-length documentary debut ‘Sfora’ (dir. T. Chudy). He is also working on other documentary projects as a producer and executive producer, and developing his feature debut with screenwriters and a director. He’s a member of the Young Producers section of the KIPA producers association, and a graduate of law and the organisation of film and television production, as well as numerous courses on various aspects of film production (screenwriting, production and editing).
SKANER / SCANNER – Roman PrzylipiakA film set in Poland in 2045 when there are no more refugees. The ‘Clean Poland’ programme is underway whereby everyone is checked with special devices that scan the human eye in order to precisely determine the level of Polishness of the citizens, with only real Poles having the right to stay in the country. The devices are supported by brilliant specialists called Scanners. Project developed as part of the SCRIPT screenwriting course.A feature-length film at the stage of working on the script. Sought: producer and co-producers. Contact: [email protected] Przylipiak – a graduate of the film school in Łódź and the DEVELOPMENT LAB and SCRIPT courses at the Wajda School. He also studied photography at the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk and graphics at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. He has participated in the Goethe Institute’s film workshops and also the ‘Crossing Boundaries’ competition, which attracted feature and documentary film entries from 33 directors from 10 countries around the world and resulted in his film ‘The Course’ being awarded 2nd place. He is also a lecturer at many national and international workshops, such as Tender Metropolis in Berlin and Budapest and the Art of Choice organised by Camerimage in Bydgoszcz. He conducts directing workshops at the Film Department at the University of Gdańsk and his film ‘Jerry’, which was developed at the Wajda School and made by the Munk Studio as part of the 30 Minutes programme, won nearly twenty awards around the world.
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DOC LAB POLAND
DOC LAB POLAND is the biggest in Poland program for development, consultation, presentation and promotion of Polish documentary films addressed to professional documentary filmmakers, divided into two parts: START – projects in development, and GO – projects at the editing. They are accompanied by DOC LAB POLAND CO – PRODUCTION MARKET organized at the Krakow Film Festival which is open for both Polish and international producers. It is the only co-production market in Poland.
The program focuses on feature-length documentaries with international potential. Filmmakers consult their projects with renown filmmakers from Poland and abroad and learn how to present their films. The key events of DOC LAB POLAND are DOCS TO START and DOCS TO GO! pitching sessions with one-to-one meetings at the Krakow Film Festival. The last session organized as part of the Warsaw Film Festival is accompanied by lectures open to the public.
Every year ca 750 individual meetings for producers, sales agents, financiers, broadcasters and festival programmers are organized as part of DOC LAB POLAND events in Krakow. DOC LAB POLAND was created in 2015 by The Władysław Ślesicki Film Foundation and is organized in association with Krakow Film Festival and in cooperation with DOK Leipzig, European Documentary Network and Warsaw Film Festival. In 2019 Partners are: Polish Film Institute, Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, Adam Mickiewicz Institute – Culture.pl, Foundation of Polish-German Cooperation, HBO Europe, City of Warsaw, City of Krakow, HBO Europe, Creative Europe Desk Poland, Warsaw Mazovia Film Commission, Mazovian Institute of Culture, Krakow Film Commission, Krakow Festival Office, Krakow Technology Park, Institute of Documentary Film, National Chamber of Audiovisual Producers, MKZ Partners, Czech Centre, ColorOffOn, Uchostudio, Łowicka Centre, FINA. Media Partners are: Film & TV Kamera, Film Pro, Polish Docs, VOGUE, Magazyn Filmowy SFP, TVP Kultura.
www.doclab.pl
The Władysław Ślesicki Film Foundation focuses on training and development programs, film production and promotion of Polish cinematography. It also popularizes films of Władysław Ślesicki, one of the most renowned Polish documentary filmmakers of the ’50s and ’60s.
www.fundfilm.pl
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BROTHERHOOD (BRACTWO) 55‘DIRECTOR: HANNA MACIĄGPRODUCERS: JAKUB KOSMA, KATARZYNA SARNOWSKA,
MIMIKRA SP. Z O.O.PRODUCTION STAGE: DEVELOPMENTLOOKING FOR: FINANCING, CO-PRODUCERS, BROADCASTERS, SALES
AGENTS A young man tries to live by his traditional ideals. Life challenges his
world view. The Brotherhood is a group of 12 young men aged between 16 and 35. According to its founders, the Brotherhood was established at a time of a masculine identity crisis. Its actions are based on four linchpins: political, military, intellectual and religious. Its members follow the ethos of knights and teach one another how to live by it in Poland in the 21st century. They are incurable dreamers. Antek is one of the members. Antek is different than his friends. He tends to listen rather than talk, he is empathetic and sensitive. Recent changes in his personal life make him neglect his Brotherhood obligations.
CONTACT: MIMIKRA sp z o.o., Aleja 3 maja 2 lok 33, 00-391 Warszawa, [email protected]
DO I STILL GET ON YOUR NERVES? (CZY PANI SIĘ JESZCZE NA MNIE DENERWUJE?) 70’
DIRECTOR: MICHAŁ SZCZEŚNIAKPRODUCER: JOANNA BANACH, KOSMOS PRODUCTIONSTAGE: PRE-PRODUCTIONLOOKING FOR: CO-PRODUCER, ADDITIONAL FINANCING, SALES AGENT,
DISTRIBUTOR, BROADCASTERS, FESTIVALS Monika moved into her new apartment. Mariusz was her upstairs
neighbor, who organized jam sessions at home. For her, music com-ing out of concert speakers meant yet another sleepless night, while crème de la crème of the underground music world met right over her head. The war began. Neighbours, families, lawyers and the police got involved.
One day they met at a funeral of Monika’s first love and one of the attendees the gatherings at Mariusz’s apartment, and… fell in love. Together they developed a pioneer method for treating autism. Now they’re going to Saudi Arabia. They still fight.
CONTACT: Joanna Banach, Kosmos Production sp. z o.o., 28/25 Waryńskiego St., 00-650
Warsaw, Poland, +48 502 133 311, [email protected]
CANDIDATES OF DEATH (KANDYDACI ŚMIERCI) 54’DIRECTOR: MACIEJ CUSKEPRODUCERS: MACIEJ CUSKE, EWA HOFFMANN, FUNDACJA BYDGOSKA
KRONIKA FILMOWAPRODUCTION STAGE: PRODUCTIONLOOKING FOR: CO-PRODUCERS, BROADCASTERS Ten years ago director Maciej Cuske decided to take his 13-years old son
and his friends on a holiday trip. He wanted the boys to break away from the world of television and computer games, so he came up with the idea to make movie together. Boys really love it, and during this summer trip they shoot first episode of horror movie and called it “Candidates of Death”. The trip becomes a tradition and every summer since then they meet to shoot the next episodes of the movie. During these ten years they all really change, boys become man, they experienced their first love but also got to know the taste of failure. Now everyone has their problems and on the next trip they face the question of whether this will not be their last trip together.
CONTACT: Fundacja Bydgoska Kronika Filmowa, www.bydgoskakronikafilmowa.pl, Ewa Hoffmann, [email protected], phone: +48 698 030 208
PROJEKTY START
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I WANT IT ALL 100’DIRECTOR: KATARZYNA WIŚNIOWSKAPRODUCER: HAKA FILMS TOMASZ MORAWSKIPRODUCTION STAGE: DEVELOPMENTLOOKING FOR: CO-PRODUCERS, BROADCASTERS Yara, a 10-year-old girl from Brussels, dreams of becoming a boxing
champion as well as a fashion model. Those aims seem to be at odds with one another, but her environment is set to help her achieve them. Yara’s Moroccan mother and her Belgian father, who are both profes-sional athletes, support their daughter in achieving every goal she sets for herself. Seemingly, neither her gender, nor her cultural background will be able to stop her. However, as her parents have learned the hard way, every dream comes at a price. This is a story about defining your own identity, making difficult decisions and finding support in those whom we love most.
CONTACT: HAKA FILMS, 12B Irysowa St., 02-660 Warsaw, Poland, +48 793 677 277, [email protected]
DREAMERS FOREVER (WIECZNI MARZYCIELE) 52’DIRECTOR: MARIA MARGIELPRODUCERS: ZBIGNIEW DOMAGALSKI, KALEJDOSKOP, KATARZYNA
GONTARCZUK, FUNDACJA INSTYTUT INNOWACJIPRODUCTION STAGE: DEVELOPMENTLOOKING FOR: CO-PRODUCERS, BROADCASTERS A retired football coach, 83-year-old engineer and a Grand Theater
former violinist have a dream – despite their age they still want to be needed and by all means try to live a full life. Film tells a story about people who truly believe it never too late to chase your dream. Henryk, 72, once a famous football coach is totally forgotten nowadays. His dream is to make a comeback and to train kids in orphanage. Janek, 83, formal engineer wants to make a music career as a harmonica player. Anna, 67, an introverted violinist finally gained the courage to stand up to her mother and try to chase her dream of becoming an actress. Our protagonists believe this is their last, best shot. They feel the pressure of time running out on their dreams and they know they should hurry up if they want to make it. So as Woody Allen once said : It’s not that I’m afraid to die, I just don’t want to be there when it happens”…
CONTACT: Studio Filmowe Kalejdoskop, 21 Chełmska St., 00-724 Warsaw, Poland, + 48 22 851 17 79, + 48 22 841 21 35, [email protected]
LILI 72’DIRECTOR: SYLWIA ROSAKPRODUCER: TOMASZ MORAWSKIPRODUCTION STAGE: DEVELOPMENTLOOKING FOR: CO-PRODUCERS Since her parents split, Lili has been sharing her time between two
homes. In spite of all the hardships, Lili’s parents are her safe place. Her mom, a calm and caring woman, gives her the harmony and safety she needs. Meanwhile, her dad is full of ideas and very charismatic. His goal is to show the world to his bright daughter. Their fearless journeys are an opportunity for the oddball couple to tighten their bond, try themselves in difficult situations, discover new and wonderful places, as well as meet interesting people. With a baby sister on the way, Lili’s life is about to get even more exciting.
This is a story about an amazing relationship between precautious, 8-year-old girl and her globetrotting father and growing up in an un-conventional family.
CONTACT: HAKA FILMS Tomasz Morawski, + 48 668 024 800, [email protected]
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MISS OF POLAND (MISS POLONII) 52’ (WITH AN OPTION FOR 75’)DIRECTORS: JANA SHOSTAK, JAKUB JASIUKIEWICZPRODUCER: WŁODZIMIERZ NIDERHAUSPRODUCTION STAGE: DEVELOPMENTLOOKING FOR: CO-PRODUCERS, BROADCASTERS Yana, a 26-year-old feminist, wants to become Miss Poland. Her attempt
to crack the beauty contest system from the inside fails at the regional stage. She returns home to recharge her batteries and rebuild her self-esteem. Having received support from her caring family, she decides to give it another shot. According to the contest’s regulations she is just before the expiry date.
During the spring cycle she does everything it takes to please the pageant organizers and sponsors. Her aim: to get to the national finals, and use its platform to surprise millions of viewers with a statement during the live broadcast. Will she be crowned before she becomes an old lady of 27? And if she is will her provocation inspire the audience to reflect on what they are looking at?
CONTACT: Wytwórnia Filmów Dokumentalnych i Fabularnych, 21 Chełmska St., 21, 00-724 Warsaw, Poland, +48 22 559 33 14, [email protected]
MY BIG BIBA (MOJA WIELKA BIBA) 90’DIRECTOR: JUDYTA FIBIGERPRODUCERS: JUDYTA FIBIGER, ROBERT RHODIN WHITE SHARK STUDIOSPRODUCTION STAGE: DEVELOPMENTLOOKING FOR: CO-PRODUCERS, BROADCASTERS A film portrait of Barbara Hulanicki, a visionary, fashion revolutionary, founder
of the legendary Biba store in London. A story of a woman who was ahead of her time. BIBA was one of the greatest fashion revolutions of our time: a tiny store in London in the late 60s that soon turned into a huge department store in High Street Kensington. “The most beautiful store in the world,” the Sunday Times called it, “a place that defined the 1960s”. Founder Barbara Hulanicki offered something that had never been done before – iconic yet modern fashion for every budget. Biba was not just a store – it was a lifestyle. Ardent customers included David Bowie, Freddie Mercury, Richard Avedon, Twiggy and Mick Jagger. It was where the first mass-produced clothing started, and it paved the way for today’s retail giants like ZARA and H&M. Presided over by Barbara Hulanicki and her husband Stephen Fitz-Simon and ruled by women, Biba may have been the first feminist company in the world. The film will be an overdue rediscovery of a major piece of 20th century cultural history.
CONTACT: Judyta Fibiger, [email protected], +48 602 661 019, Robert Rhodin, [email protected]
TOGETHER (BLISCY), 65‘DIRECTOR: MAREK KOZAKIEWICZPRODUCER: AGNIESZKA SKALSKA, KOI STUDIOPRODUCTION STAGE: IN PRODUCTIONLOOKING FOR: CO-PRODUCERS, FESTIVALS, SALES AGENTS Upon his mother’s death, a teenager is left under the care of his sister.
They start building their family on new terms.CONTACT: Koi Studio, 4/29 Słupecka St., 02-309, Warsaw, Poland,
+48 509 236 089, [email protected]
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WHEN THE WIND BECOMES SILENT (KIEDY UMILKNIE WIATR) 72’DIRECTOR: MATEUSZ GOŁĘBIEWSKIPRODUCER: MAŁGORZATA DOMIN, DOMINIKA MANDLA, KINGA MIELNIKPRODUCTION COMPANY: DOMINO FILMPRODUCTION STAGE: DEVELOPMENT LOOKING FOR: CO-PRODUCERS, FINANCING, BROADCASTERS When the Wind Becomes Silent tells the story of the unusual rivalry between
two athletes – Egil Danielsen and Janusz Sidło. The main arc of narration is the final of the XVI Olympiad in Australia, which turned out to be one of the least expected in the history of sports. In 1956, Sidło went to Melbourne as an absolute favourite. During the competition, Sidło reached an incredible score, which put him in the lead. Unexpectedly, right before the end of the competition, he decided to help his main competitor Egil Danielsen, sug-gesting him the use of a prototype, steel javelin. This unexpected behavior changed not only the result of the Olympics, but also his life and sport career afterwards. Sidło went to the olympic games again three times – every time as a favorite to gold – and every time came back with nothing. Melbourne silver medal was only olympic success in his long career.
CONTACT: DOMINO FILM, 63A/4 Sokolska St., 40-087 Katowice, tel. +48 602 772 778, [email protected] , producer’s e-mail: [email protected] , director’s e-mail: [email protected]
DANCE WITH ME, DAD (ZATAŃCZ ZE MNĄ TATO) 52’DIRECTOR: MAŁGORZATA GOŹDZIKPRODUCER: ANNA STYLIŃSKA, FUNDACJA WIDOKPRODUCTION STAGE: FINAL SHOOTING AND EDITINGLOOKING FOR: CO-PRODUCER, FINANCING, SALES AGENT I remember being close with my dad when I was a child. We had a
ritual to put funny costumes and dance together a lot. Over the years my father has become distant and inaccessible, as if there was put an invisible wall between us.
Being 28 years old I come back home to confront my father. I invite him to take Lindy Hop dance classes with me. But the dancing course is just a part of the process to reconnect. The true dance is the one which happens at our home. I take small steps starting from doing simple house works together, renovating my teenage room and painting my father’s portrait. My dad is resistant and not easy to open. Yet a change is gradually getting visible. The dancing course comes to an end. Now, my father is giving dance classes to my mom. Will this change last for longer? Will this influence my future life?
CONTACT: Fundacja Widok 4/78 Wilsona Sq., 01-626 Warsaw, Poland, +48 605 404 647, [email protected]
IN VOLTA (W STANIE WOLTY) 70’DIRECTOR: MONIKA KOTECKA, KAROLINA PORYZAŁAPRODUCER: AGNIESZKA WASIAK, LAVA FILMSPRODUCTION STAGE: EDITINGLOOKING FOR: SALES AGENT, FESTIVALS, BROADCASTERS, DISTRIBUTORS Vaulting is like the circle of life – when you are little you can just fly
but when you grow up you must start to carry. A girl, a teenager and a woman confront their weaknesses in order to fulfill their dreams. Three team members of an amateur vaulting team don’t realize that the fight they’ve put up to become professional may turn out more rewarding than the goal it served them for. A portrait of coming of age at different stages of womanhood.
CONTACT: Lava Films sp. z o.o., Mahatmy Gandhiego 7/30, 91-012 Lodz, Poland, +48 602 132 222, [email protected]
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NO HERO AT ALL (ANTYBOHATER) 75’DIRECTOR: MICHAŁ KAWECKIPRODUCERS: MARIA SINIARSKA & ŁUKASZ BORZĘCKI (UNLIMITED FILM
OPERATIONS)CO-PRODUCERS: TVP, WAJDA STUDIOWITH FINANCIAL SUPPORT FROM: POLISH FILM INSTITUTE, SILESIA FILM
FUNDPRODUCTION STAGE: POST-PRODUCTIONLOOKING FOR: INTERNATIONAL BROADCASTERS, SALES AGENTS, FESTIVALS A sometimes darkly comical documentary tale about an unusual
sportsman whose toxic relationship with his family is more of an ob-stacle in his pursuit of Olympic gold than his lack of arms and legs.
CONTACT: Unlimited Film Operations sp. z o.o., 16/9 Miklaszewskiego St., 02-776 Warsaw, Poland, +48 505 733 237, siniarska@unlimited film.pl, www.unlimitedfilm.pl
THE PAWNSHOP (LOMBARD) 75’DIRECTOR: ŁUKASZ KOWALSKIPRODUCERS: ANNA MAZERANT, ŁUKASZ KOWALSKI, 4.30 STUDIOPRODUCTION STAGE: PRODUCTIONLOOKING FOR: BROADCASTERS, SALES AGENTS, FESTIVAL SELECTIONERS Jola and Wiesiek, a couple of extraordinary entrepreneurs, run the
biggest pawnshop in the south of Poland. Profitable in the past, today the business only generates loses. The problems have several causes. Residents of the neighborhood more and more often pawn worthless objects to make their ends meet. Wiesiek’s irrational marketing initiatives and the good heart of Jola who financially supports poor clients are not conducive to improving the situation either. Their love begins to falter when the money to live on runs out. Will they be able to save their relationship and the unique place they’ve created?
CONTACT: 4.30 STUDIO, 6/10d Staromiejska St., 40-013 Katowice, Poland, +48 513 088 667, [email protected]
UNDERAGE ASTRONAUT (NIELETNIA ASTRONAUTKA) 52‘, 72'DIRECTOR: ALEKSANDRA SKOWRONPRODUCERS: MIROSLAW SKOWRON, ALEKSANDRA SKOWRON, MEDIOLIAPRODUCTION STAGE: PRODUCTIONLOOKING FOR: CO-PRODUCERS, BROADCASTERS One girl who lost her home and friends tries to reassemble her life and
decides to go for a long-time adventure. That new beginning brings her to a moon base. An incredible Space adventure is seen through the eyes of a 13-years-old Ukrainian girl, who has to find her place on Earth, before she reaches the stars.
Will it also prepare her for the first separation with her twin sister? Emilia and her sister Vlada came as refugees from Ukraine to small Pol-
ish town. They participated in recruitment for the cosmic project with astronauts’ training and tests in lunar habitat. Emilia passed through. Vlada didn’t make it. An adventure in the moon habitat helps Emilia to spread her wings. Her assimilation goes well when Vlada tolerates it much worse. Meanwhile, a truly cosmic change is coming in the lives of both girls: they start new schools in completely different cities. Now separated for real.
CONTACT: MEDIOLIA, 6/1 sw. Franciszka Salezego ST., 00-392 Warsaw, Poland, +48 668 541 439, [email protected]
FESTIVAL PROGRAMME- Main Feature Films Competition;- Feature Films Competition “Youth on the March”;- National Competition;- Main Documentary Films Competition;- National Film Schools Competition;- Children and Youth Films Competition “Listapadzik”;- Industry days BEL:CINEMA.
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FESTIVAL PROGRAMME- Main Feature Films Competition;- Feature Films Competition “Youth on the March”;- National Competition;- Main Documentary Films Competition;- National Film Schools Competition;- Children and Youth Films Competition “Listapadzik”;- Industry days BEL:CINEMA.
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Deadline for entriesFebruary 1st, 2020
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