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Filmstill Silent Love

Silent Love

Silent Love
Marek Kozakiewicz
Panorama Middle and Eastern Europe 2022
Documentary Film
Germany,
Poland
2022
72 minutes
Polish
Subtitles: 
English

The rules in rural Poland are clear: Every man must have a woman; every dancer must have a female dancer. The pubescent Miłosz feels safe here, especially after his mother’s death. His sister Agnieszka, who is in a long-distance relationship with her friend Majka, does everything to obtain custody of her little brother. Gradually, a new family model is revealed, documented by Marek Kozakiewicz as an attempt that is as restrained as it is determined.

The windmills behind the houses rotate steadily, standing in place, signalling stability. But the lives of Miłosz and his 35-year-old sister are in turmoil. They are facing a red-tape marathon to make Agnieska his legal guardian: Both have been orphans for a few months. Director Marek Kozakiewicz depicts the establishment of a new family no one expects much applause for in conservative Poland. Because for Agnieszka and her partner, who is ten years older, the determination to try living together manifests tentatively. Without kisses, without celebrations, the decision almost casually becomes reality – the women are exploring the boundary between platonic tenderness and enforced secrecy. And Miłosz, too, seems to realise only slowly what the relationship between Majka and Agnieszka really is.
Carolin Weidner

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Director
Marek Kozakiewicz
Script
Marek Kozakiewicz
Cinematographer
Marek Kozakiewicz
Editor
Anna Garncarczyk, Agata Cierniak
Producer
Agnieszka Skalska, Alexandre Tondowski
Co-Producer
Ira Tondowski
Sound
Marek Kozakiewicz
Score
Bartosz Bludau
Broadcaster
Thomas Beyer, Catherine Le Goff
Winner of: MDR Film Prize
Kids DOK 2022
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Sister
Kasia K. Pieróg
Two sisters travel to the realm of clouds on a paper plane, in search of the big tree with the golden leaf. Slowly they get closer to each other and their goal.
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Sister

Siostra
Kasia K. Pieróg
Kids DOK 2022
Animated Film
Poland
2022
12 minutes
without dialogue
Subtitles: 
None

Two sisters travel to the realm of clouds on a paper plane. They are looking for the big tree with the golden leaf. Their plane has to be mended again and again, and the big sister is worried. When she falls ill, the little sister takes control. Slowly they get closer to each other and their goal on this arduous journey.

Lina Dinkla

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Director
Kasia K. Pieróg
Editor
Kasia K. Pieróg
Producer
Marcin Podolec
Sound
Kacper Zamar
Score
Hubert Zemler
Animation
Kasia K. Pieróg, Jakub Baniak, Agnieszka Czachór, Przemysław Świdada, Dudek Pulit, Michalina Musialik, Adrianna Matwiejczuk, Karolina Kajetanowicz, Alicja Grotuz
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Slow Light

Slow Light
Katarzyna Kijek, Przemysław Adamski
Competition for the Audience Award Short Film 2022
Animated Film
Poland,
Portugal
2022
11 minutes
English
Subtitles: 
None

Born blind, the hero of this film turns seven before he begins to see images from the past that soon follow him like a curse. Like the stars in the night sky, what he sees has often long since passed away and gone out. In this tragic masterpiece by the directing duo Kijek/Adamski, the almost tangible pastel-coloured cut-out technique of the present-day narrative contrasts with delicate black and white 2D animations that represent the shadows of what is lost.

Christoph Terhechte

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Director
Katarzyna Kijek, Przemysław Adamski
Script
Katarzyna Kijek, Przemysław Adamski
Cinematographer
Katarzyna Kijek, Przemysław Adamski
Editor
Katarzyna Kijek, Przemysław Adamski
Producer
Piotr Szczepanowicz, Grzegorz Wacławek
Co-Producer
Przemysław Adamski, Katarzyna Kijek, Bruno Caetano
Sound
Philip Lenkowsky, Carlos Abreu, Miguel Gonçlaves
Score
Piotr Kaliński
Animation
Katarzyna Kijek, Przemysław Adamski, Ala Nunu, João Gonzalez, Jakub Kaczmarek, Bartosz Stępnik, Hugo Sequeria
World Sales
Luce Grosjean
Nominated for: mephisto 97.6 Audience Award
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Soup

Zupa
Zbigniew Rybczyński
Animation and Musique concrète 2021
Experimental Film
Poland
1974
9 minutes
without dialogue
Subtitles: 
None

The daily routine in the life of a young couple: getting up, squeezing blackheads, eating soup, daydreaming … Zbigniew Rybczyński reworks real-life images to create surreal collages in order to visually turn the inside out. He is supported by the Polish composer Eugeniusz Rudnik, whose great electro-acoustic inventiveness shifts playfully back and forth between naturalism and alienation.

André Eckardt

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Director
Zbigniew Rybczyński
Script
Zbigniew Rybczyński
Cinematographer
Zbigniew Rybczyński
Editor
Barbara Sarnocinska
Producer
Se-ma-for Produkcja Filmowa Sp. z o.o.
Sound
Mieczysław Janik
Score
Eugeniusz Rudnik
Animation
Zbigniew Rybczyński
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Such Miracles Do Happen

Takie cuda się zdarzają
Barbara Rupik
International Competition Animated Film 2023
Animated Film
Poland
2022
14 minutes
Polish
Subtitles: 
English

The inhabitants of a village witness an unusual event. The religious figures that surround them come alive and leave their accustomed places. The statues step down from shrines and niches, from altars and pedestals. They turn their backs on the village. Nobody knows where they are heading and why they are departing.

Most of the people are frozen in religious adoration, but some of them overpower a statue of the Virgin Mary and smash it on the ground. The fragments of the broken statue, however, live on, and are still heading away. A young girl – born boneless and unable to move without help – manages to make contact with one of the departing statues.

Franka Sachse

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Director
Barbara Rupik
Script
Barbara Rupik
Cinematographer
Barbara Rupik
Editor
Barbara Rupik
Producer
Agata Golańska
Sound
Barbara Rupik
Score
Barbara Rupik
Animation
Barbara Rupik
World Sales
Marta Świętek
Winner of: Golden Dove Short Film (International Competition Animated Film)