CLOSE TIES
POLISH TITLE: WIĘZI
Forty five years of marriage is an impressive anniversary. Barbara and Zdzisław could be proud of themselves if not for the fact that the husband left the wife for his lover eight years ago. But now they are together again, although Barbara claims that if it were not for his infirm legs, Zdzisław would still be chasing skirts around Kraków. Despite the past resentment, everyday problems with paying bills, an occupied bathroom and rearranging furniture, they have a hard to define bond.
- GENRE:
- documentary
- COUNTRYI:
- Poland
- RUNNING TIME:
- 18'
- YEAR:
- 2016
- DIRECTING:
- Zofia Kowalewska
- SCRIPT:
- Zofia Kowalewska
- DOP:
- Weronika Bilska
- EDITOR:
- Jerzy Zawadzki
- SOUND:
- Krzysztof Ridan
- PRODUCER:
- Studio Munka
Zofia Kowalewska »
Film director, a diploma year student of Film Direction at The National Film School in Lodz, a graduate of Wajda School Documentary Film Program. Director of "Close Ties" (2016) - a short documentary that has won over 40 awards worldwide, including Silver Dragon at Krakow Film Festival and IDFA Special Jury Award for Student Documentary. Zofia is currently working on her diploma films at the Lodz Film School. "Siskin" is her debut feature documentary.
AT FESTIVALS:
- Quebec City Film Festival 2019, Canada, 2019 (screening)
- Festival de Finos Filmes, Brazil, 2019 (screening)
- Festival Film Dokumenter, Indonesia, 2018 (screening)
- Cellu l'Art Polish Shorts Day 2018, Austria, 2018 (screening)
- IDocs - International Documentary Forum, China, 2018 (screening)
- Poland Now/Istanbul Modern, Turkey, 2018 (screening)
- Look&Roll International Short FF, Switzerland, 2018 (competition)
- Open Place Film Festival, Latvia, 2018 (screening)
- Wilde Möhre Festival, Germany, 2018 (screening)
- Film Festival Film Night at the Castle 2018, Slovakia, 2018 (screening)
- Molodist IFF 2018, Ukraine, 2018 (Best Student Film)
- 58th Krakow Film Festival, Poland, 2018 (screening)
- European Film Festival, Trinidad and Tobago, 2018 (screening)
- Imagine Euro Tolerance Festival, Azerbaijan, 2018 (screening)
- Cleveland International FF, USA, 2018 (competition)
- Pow Film Fest, USA, 2018 (screening)
- Mittelpunkt Europa Film Fest, Germany, 2018 (screening)
- 3rd Go East Film Festival, Switzerland, 2018 (competition)
- Budapest International Documentary Festival, Hungary, 2018 (competition)
- Bogotá Short Film Festival BOGOshorts, Colombia, 2017 (Best Short Documentary)
- PÖFF Shorts Short Film and Animation Festival 2017, Estonia, 2017 (screening)
- 34th Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival, Germany, 2017 (competition)
- Aesthetica Short Film Festival 2017, The United Kingdom, 2017 (screening)
- Minsk International Film Festival "Listapad", Belarus, 2017 (Student Award)
- Astra Film Festival 2017, Romania, 2017 (competition)
- Ânûû-rû Âboro Documentary FF, Nouvelle Caledonie, 2017 (competition)
- DocsMX, Mexico, 2017 (competition)
- 47th Alcine - Alcalá de Henares Film Festival, Spain, 2017 (Primer Premio “Alcine”)
- CinEast - Central and Eastern European FF 2017, Luxembourg, 2017 (Audience Award)
- DMZ DOCSInternational Documentary FF 2017, South Korea, 2017 (screening)
- Encounters - 23rd Short Film & Animation Festival, UK, 2017 (competition)
- Helsinki International FF, Finland, 2017 (screening)
- 7th Quebec City Film Festival, Canada, 2017 (competition)
- Film Festival Herceg Novi, Montenegro, 2017 (Grand Prix)
- Cisterna Film Festival, Italy, 2017 (screening)
- 25th Curtas Vila do Conde International Film Festival, Portugal, 2017 (screening)
- 31st Pärnu Film Festival, Estonia, 2017 (competition)
- Edinburgh International FF, UK, 2017 (screening)
- Palm Springs International ShortFest, USA, 2017 (competition)
- AFI DOCS, USA, 2017 (competition)
- Sydney Film Festival, Australia, 2017 (competition)
- Greenwich International FF, USA, 2017 (competition)
- DokuMA Film Festival, Croatia, 2017 (competition)
- 43rd Seattle International Film Festival, USA, 2017 (competition)
- Doc Aviv, Israel, 2017 (competition)
- DocEdge Festival, New Zealand, 2017 (Best International Short)
- DocuTIFF, Albania, 2017 (competition)
- IndieLisboa – International Independent FF 2017, Portugal, 2017 (Grand Prix)
- Hot Docs, Canada, 2017 (competition)
- Crossing Europe, Austria, 2017 (competition)
- Go Short - International Short FF Nijmegen, The Netherlands, 2017 (competition)
- The Women+Film Festival, USA, 2017 (competition)
- 34th International Women's Film Festival Dortmund|Cologne, Germany, 2017 (screening)
- 29th Filmfest Dresden - ISFF, Germany, 2017 (screening)
- Vilnius International FF “Kino pavasaris", Lithuania, 2017 (Best Film in Short Competition)
- Green Mountain Film Festival in Vermont , USA, 2017 (screening)
- Sharm Film Festival, Egypt, 2017 (Silver Djed Pillar for the Best Director)
- ZagrebDOX, Croatia, 2017 (Special Mention)
- 11th MiradasDoc, Canary Islands, 2017 (competition)
- Docpoint Tallinn, Estonia, 2017 (screening)
- Docpoint Helsinki, Finland, 2017 (competition)
- Sundance Film Festival 2017, USA, 2017 (competition)
- 26th Flickerfest's International Short Film Festival, Australia, 2017 (Best Short Documentary)
- 57th Festival dei Popoli, Italy, 2016 (competition)
- IDFA 2016, The Netherlands, 2016 (IDFA Special Jury Award for Student Documentary)
- DOK Leipzig 2016, Germany, 2016 (Golden Dove)
- 32nd Warsaw Film Festival, Poland, 2016 (screening)
- 16th T-Mobile New Horizons IFF, Poland, 2016 (3rd Prize in Polish Film Cometition)
- 56th Krakow Film Festival, Poland, 2016 (Silver Dragon for Best Documentary Film)