Then – 5 short films
While You Are Sleeping / Kiedy Ty Śpisz
Documentary. Year: 1953. 10 minutes. Rated: Exempt Polish with English Subtitles
Director: Andrzej Wajda
Producers: The Polish National Film, Television and Theatre School in Lodz
A documentary about the night-life in a city. While some sleep, others work.
Day In Day Out / Jak Co Dzien
Documentary. Year: 1955. 11 minutes. Rated: Exempt Polish with English Subtitles
Director: Kazimierz Karabasz
Producers: The Polish National Film, Television and Theatre School in Lodz
A documentary about transport problems of suburban inhabitants commuting to work to Warsaw, Poland in the late fifties of the 20th century. Eventually, due to the new electric railway system and he hard and efficient work of railway workers, the situation gets better.
Two Men with a Wardrobe / Dwaj Ludzie z Szafa
Fiction. Year: 1958. 14 minutes. Rated: PG Polish with English Subtitles
Director: Roman Polański
Producers: The Polish National Film, Television and Theatre School in Lodz
Two young men emerge from the sea carrying a wardrobe. They walk with it across the city.
Little Hamlet / Hamles
Fiction. Year: 1960. 9 minutes. Rated: PG Polish with English Subtitles
Director: Jerzy Skolimowski
Producers: The Polish National Film, Television and Theatre School in Lodz
Inspired by William Shakespeare’s “Hamlet”. There is drama if somebody hesitates And has his hands in politics, And when love disturbs him, There is drama, there is drama…
A Working Day / Dzien Pracy
Documentary. Year: 1971. 5 minutes. Rated: PG Polish with English Subtitles
Director: Andrzej Barański
Producers: The Polish National Film, Television and Theatre School in Lodz
A picture of a man who works as a stoker, central heating keeper and a handy man in four firms. The film shows his work and family life.
The Egg / Jajko
Fiction. Year: 1982. 10 minutes. Rated: G Polish with English Subtitles
Director: Dorota Kędzierzawska
Producers: The Polish National Film, Television and Theatre School in Lodz
An award-winning film of two children left alone at home - a short film study of childhood loneliness.
Now – 2 short films
A Man Thing / Meska Sprawa
Fiction. Year: 2001. 25 minutes. Rated: M / Violence,sexual references and offensive language Polish with English Subtitles
Director: Sławomir Fabicki
Producers: The Polish National Film, Television and Theatre School in Lodz
Set in the reality of contemporary Poland, the film tells the story of three days in the life of a thirteen year old boy trying desperately to keep the fact that his father beats him, a secret. Lonely and with no support from his mother or from school, bullied by his sport teacher, the boy finds his only friend in an old stray dog from the kennels.
Academy Awards (nominated), 2002
Short Waves Award, Arcipelago - International Festival of Short Films and New Images 2001
Best Cinematography (Bogumil Godfrejow ), Press Award, Youth Jury Award, Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival 2002
Grand Prix, Drama Short Film Festival 2002
Best Short Film Dresden Film Festival 2002
Prix UIP Edinburgh (European Short Film), Edinburgh International Film Festival 2001
European Film Awards 2001
Silver Dragon, Krakow Film Festival 2002
Best Student Production, Melbourne International Film Festival 2002
Don Quixote Award - Special Mention, Scythian Deer, Molodist International Film Festival 2001
Silver Award, New York Expo of Short Film 2002
Best International Short Film, Regensburg Short Film Week 2001
Best Short Film, Shorts International Film Festival 2001
Sleepwalkers Grand Prize, Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival 2002
Special Prize, Tampere International Short Film Festival 2002
Audience Award - Student Competition, Wiesbaden goEast 2002
Charcoal Burners / Smolarze
Documentary. Year: 2010. 15 minutes. Rated: Exempt Polish with English Subtitles
Director: Piotr Złotorowicz
Producers: The Polish National Film, Television and Theatre School in Lodz
Every summer, Marek and Janina work as charcoal burners in the Bieszczady Mountains. Far from civilization, in the heart of the mountains, they live according to the rhythm set by nature. The documentary joins the man and the woman from dawn till dusk, observing the slow passage of time. A visual anthem to the beauty of life.
Best Short Documentary, Pärnu International Film Festival, Estonia, 2010
Best Documentary Film, Open St.Petersburg Student Film Festival Beginning, Russia, 2010
Grand Prix, Film Festival of Dijon - "Fenêtres sur courts", France, 2010
Grand Prix, Filmer le Travail, France, 2011
Grand Jury Award For Short, DC Independent Film Festival, USA, 2011
Award for the Best Documentary, Shortz Film Fest, USA, 2011
The Best Documentary Award, Saguenay International Short Film Festival, 2011
"Golden Fox" du Cinéma de Sciences Po, 2011
Kansas City FilmFest, USA, 2011 (Best Documentary Film)
EfeboCorto Film Festival, Sicilia, 2011 (Best Student Film)
Wimbledon Shorts Film Festival, UK, 2011 (Best Documentary Film)
Best Documentary International Film Festival, Mexico, 2011
First Prize Iñigo Film Festival, Spain, 2011
First Prize Film Festival Della Lessinia, Italy, 2011
Con i minuti contati - International Short Film Festival, Italy, 2011 (Best Documentary Prize)
Cabbagetown Short Film & Video Festival, Canada, 2011 (Best Documentary)
Ostrava-Picture, Czech Republic, 2011 (Best Documentary)