A BRAVE BUNCH. CHILDREN OF WARSAW UPRISING
POLISH TITLE: FAJNA FERAJNA. POWSTANIE OCZYMA DZIECI
A group of children run through the streets of modern-day Warsaw; the city their playground. One of them spies a discarded journal and they are transported back to August 1944.
As the children enter the Warsaw Rising Museum, the exhibits soon step out of the past. Based on fact, with a sprinkling of magic realism and driven by the children’s curiosity, Brave Bunch. The Uprising through children’s eyes relates tender, often moving accounts of those who witnessed the uprising as children themselves, drawing a line between past and present with playful dexterity.
- GENRE:
- documentary / fiction
- RUNNING TIME:
- 29'
- YEAR:
- 2015
- DIRECTING:
- Tomasz Stankiewicz
- SCRIPT:
- Tomasz Stankiewicz, Monika Kowaleczko - Szumowska
- DOP:
- Robert Gajzler
- EDITOR:
- Karol Moch
- MUSIC:
- Krzysztof Aleksander Janczak
- PRODUCER:
- Text, Prego Media
AT FESTIVALS:
- 15th Mumbai International Film Festival, India, 2018 (competition)
- New Delhi International Film Festival, India, 2017 (competition)
- 20th International Children Film Festival Golden Elephant, India, 2017 (screening)
- Seoul Guro International Kids Film Festival, Korea, 2017 (Best Award)
- Dada Saheb Phalake Film Festival, India, 2017 (Best Editing Award)
- AnifestROZAFA International Film Festival for Children and Young Audience, Albania, 2017 (competition)
- Indian World Film Festival, India, 2017 (Best Editing Award)
- Jaipur International Film Festival, India, 2017 (Best Children Film)
- 13th Barcelona Human Rights Film Festival, Spain, 2016 (competition)
- Sharjah International Children's Film Festival, United Arab Emirates, 2016 (competition)
- 14th Tallgrass Film Festival, The United States, 2016 (competition)
- San Diego International Kid's Film Festival, The United States, 2016 (competition)
- Brooklyn Film Festival, USA, 2016 (competition)
- DocuTIFF Documentary Tirana International Film Festival, Albania, 2016 (competition)
- Festival Internacional de Cine y Audiovisual Infantil y Juvenil, Venezuela, 2016 (competition)
- CMS International Childrens Film Festival, India, 2016 (competition)
- 16th Festival de Cine de Lanzarote, Canary Islands, 2016 (competition)
- 18th Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival, Greece, 2016 (screening)
- Imperial War Museum Short Film Festival, The United Kingdom, 2016 (Special Mention)
- SIFFCY: 'Smile International Film Festival for Children & Youth', India, 2015 (competition)
- 18th Olympia Int. Film Festival for Children and Young People, Greece, 2015 (Youth Jury Best Documentary Award)
- International Children's TV Festival Dytiatko, Ukraine, 2015 (competition)