COMMUNION
POLISH TITLE: KOMUNIA
When adults are ineffectual, children have to grow up quickly. Ola is 14 and she takes care of her dysfunctional father, autistic brother and a mother who lives separately; but most of all she tries to reunite the family. She lives in the hope of bringing her mother back home. Her 13 year old brother Nikodem’s Holy Communion is a pretext for the family to meet up. Ola is entirely responsible for preparing the perfect family celebration.
"Communion" reveals the beauty of the rejected, the strength of the weak and the need for change when change seems impossible. This crash course in growing up teaches us that no failure is final. Especially when love is in question.
- GENRE:
- documentary
- COUNTRYI:
- Polska
- RUNNING TIME:
- 73'
- YEAR:
- 2016
- DIRECTING:
- Anna Zamecka
- SCRIPT:
- Anna Zamecka
- EDITOR:
- Wojciech Janas, Anna Zamecka
- SOUND:
- Marcin Kasiński
- PRODUCER:
- Wajda Studio, HBO Europe, Otter Films
AT FESTIVALS:
- Festival du film d'education, France, 2018 (Prix du long-metrage d'education)
- MakeDox 2018, Macedonia, 2018 (screening)
- Belfast Film Festival, Northen Irealnd, 2018 (competition)
- Lakeside Doc Festival, India, 2018 (competition)
- Stockfish - Film Festival & Industry Days, Iceland, 2018 (screening)
- Beloit International Film Festival, USA, 2018 (screening)
- Docpoint Helsinki, Finland, 2018 (screening)
- Budapest International Documentary Festival, Hungary, 2018 (Best Film)
- RIDM – Montréal, Canada, 2017 (competition)
- Panorama du Film Europeen, Egypt, 2017 (screening)
- Dharamshala International Film Festival, India, 2017 (competition)
- DOK Leipzig 2017, Germany, 2017 (screening)
- Astra Film Festival 2017, Romania, 2017 (BEST DOCUMENTARY IN THE CENTRAL & EASTERN EUROPE COMPETITION)
- Ânûû-rû Âboro Documentary FF, Nouvelle Caledonie, 2017 (Grand Prize)
- DocsMX, Mexico, 2017 (competition)
- Inconvenient Films in Vilnius, Lithuania, 2017 (screening)
- New Orleans Film Festival, USA, 2017 (competition)
- Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival, Japan, 2017 (The Grand Prize)
- Reykjavík International Film Festival 2017, Iceland, 2017 (competition)
- DMZ DOCSInternational Documentary FF 2017, South Korea, 2017 (screening)
- Flahertiana Film Festival, Russia, 2017 (Special Jury Mention)
- 3rd Visegrad-Turkish Culture Festival, Turkey, 2017 (screening)
- Flickers’ International Rhode Island Film Festival, USA, 2017 (competition)
- Dokufest, Kosovo, 2017 (competition)
- Guth Gafa Documentary Festival, Ireland, 2017 (screening)
- Al Este de Lima Film Festival, Peru, 2017 (competition)
- Taipei Film Festival, Taiwan, 2017 (competition)
- OsloPix, Norway, 2017 (Grand Pix Documentary)
- Encounters - South African IDFF, South Africa, 2017 (competition)
- 57. Krakow Film Festival, Poland, 2017 (screening)
- Doc Aviv, Israel, 2017 (competition)
- TRT Documentary Awards 2017, Turkey, 2017 (Best Documentary Award)
- EDOC Film Festival, Ecuador, 2017 (competition)
- 14th Neisse Film Festival, Germany, 2017 (screening)
- 32nd DOK.fest International Documentary Film Festival in Munich, Germany, 2017 (SOS-Kinderdorfer Weltweit Award)
- Hot Docs, Canada, 2017 (competition)
- Frames of Representation Film Festival, The United Kingdom, 2017 (screening)
- It’s All True - 22nd International Documentary Film Festival, Brazil, 2017 (Best Documentary for Feature or Medium-Length Competition)
- Sarasota Film Festival, USA, 2017 (competition)
- DocuDays 2018, Ukraine, 2017 (screening)
- LET’S CEE Film Festival, Austria, 2017 (competition)
- Ambulante, Mexico, 2017 (competition)
- One World International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival, Czech Republic, 2017 (competition)
- Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival, Greece, 2017 (competition)
- True/False Film Festival, USA, 2017 (competition)
- ZagrebDOX, Croatia, 2017 (competition)
- 41st Göteborg Film Festival, Sweden, 2017 (competition)
- 28th Trieste Film Festival, Italy, 2017 (Alpe Adria Cinema Award)
- IDFA 2016, The Netherlands, 2016 (screening)
- 24th International Film Festival Camerimage, Poland, 2016 (competition)
- 18th Bratislava International Film Festival, Slovak Republic, 2016 (Best Documentary Film)
- Minsk IFF "Listapad", Belarus, 2016 (competition)
- DOK Leipzig 2016, Germany, 2016 (Young Eyes Film Award)
- 32nd Warsaw Film Festival, Poland, 2016 (competition)
- 69th Locarno Film Festival, Switzerland, 2016 (Semaine de la Critique - Premio SRG SSR)