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Short Waves on Tour 2017 EN
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Short Waves on Tour 2017 - best Polish short films
Wednesday, April 19, 2017, 8.45 p.m.
Kino Pod Baranami
The best Polish shorts from Short Waves Festival 2017 program will travel across Poland once again. On Wednesday, April 19, a special screening of Short Waves on Tour will take place at Kino Pod Baranami.
The programme includes six shorts competing for the best film award. The viewers at Kino Pod Baranami will see three documentaries. Among them, the work of visual artist Julia Staniszewska, Three Conversations on Life, recording the story of a mother and daughter in a difficult dialogue about love, faith and ideology; the film Education directed by Emi Buchwald, awarded at the T-Mobile New Horizons IFF in 2016, as well as the captivating Close Ties by Zofia Kowalewska, which won the Silver Dragon Award last year at the Krakow Film Festival. Fans of animation will be satisfied with autoironic Debut by Katarzyna Kijek and Przemysław Adamski with soundtrack composed by well-known Polish musician Mikołaj Trzaska. An incredibly funny animation by Renata Gąsiorowska will also appear on screen under the provocative title Pussy. This year, only film representing fiction genre is Milena Dutkowska’s Come Play with Me, which received a Special Mention in 2016 at the Gdynia Film Festival.
The audience of Short Waves on Tour across the whole country will vote for the best film and the director granted the most votes will receive the Audience Award of 7000 PLN.
All films will be presented in original version, with Polish and English subtitles.
TICKETS:
20 PLN (regular)
15 PLN (discount)
PROGRAMME:
SHORT WAVES ON TOUR, 98'
DEBUT | DEBIUT
dir. Katarzyna Kijek, Przemysław Adamski, Poland 2016, 7’
Febio Fest 2017: Don Quijote Award
A screenwriter finds himself in the center of the story he tries to create. An autoironic attempt to deal with the syndrome of the first film, which is an irresistible desire to showcase all ideas at once.
CLOSE TIES | WIĘZI
dir. Zofia Kowalewska, Poland 2016, 19’
56. Krakow Film Festival 2016: Silver Dragon for the best documentary in the International Short Film Competition (Zofia Kowalewska)
16. T-Mobile New Horizons IFF 2016: 3rd Prize in Polish Film Competition
DOK Leipzig 2016: Golden Dove
IDFA 2016: IDFA Special Jury Award for Student Documentary
26th Flickerfest's International Short Film Festival 2017: best short documentary
ZagrebDOX 2017: Special Mention
Sharm Film Festival 2017: Silver Djed Pillar for the best director
Forty five years of marriage is an impressive anniversary. Eight years ago Zdzisław left Barbara for his lover. Recently he decided to get back to his wife. However everyday life in one apartment seems to be quite a challenge for the married couple.
PUSSY | CIPKA
reż. Renata Gąsiorowska, Polska 2015, 8’
DOK Leipzig 2016: Audience Award
14th Tabor Film Festival 2016: Grand Prix
AFI FEST 2016: Jury Award for the best animated short
32nd interfilm - International Short Film Festival Berlin 2016: best animation
36th FilmSchoolFest 2016: Female Filmmakers Award, zweiB AWARD - best animation
39th Clermont – Ferrand International Short Film Festival 2017: best animation
29th Filmfest Dresden 2017: Golden Horseman Animated Film - International Competition, ARTE Short Film Prize - International Competition, Special Mention Sound Design
A young girl spends the evening alone at home. She decides to have some sweet solo pleasure session, but not everything goes according to plan.
EDUCATION | NAUKA
dir. Emi Buchwald, Poland 2016, 20’
16. T-Mobile New Horizons IFF 2016: 1st Prize in Polish Film Competition
Central and Eastern European Film Festival 2016: Audience Award for Best Short Film
23. Etiuda&Anima IFF 2016: Grand Prix - Golden Dinosaur
In one elementary school children are told to learn Julian Tuwim’s poem Science by heart as homework. The poetic phrase is sometimes incomprehensible, some words require explanation, but parents come to their aid.
THREE CONVERSATIONS ON LIFE | TRZY ROZMOWY O ŻYCIU
dir. Julia Staniszewska, Poland 2016, 24’
Febio Fest 2017: Special Mention
A series of difficult conversations between a mother and a daughter. The mother is a doctor and a devout, practicing Catholic. The daughter is an atheist whose children were conceived through IVF. The mother is torn between love for her family and her Catholic beliefs.
COME PLAY WITH ME | ZAGRAJ ZE MNĄ
dir. Milena Dutkowska, Poland 2016, 20’
Polish Film Festival in Gdynia 2016: Special Mention in the Young Cinema Competition
Lisa visits her cousin, whom she hasn't seen for five years. They return to the childhood games, the ones they used to play together. In their provocations they seem to be invincible, until they meet Robert.
