POLONAISE
POLISH TITLE: POLONEZ
In the small, central Polish town of Aleksandrów Kujawski, the director of the local culture centre announces a competition. The theme … a creative presentation of your personal patriotic attitude. Entrants are free to demonstrate their creativity in whatever form they like; in song, recitation or gesture, by giving a speech or staging their piece. Anything goes. There’s just one requirement; entrants may only present their own, original work. The eleventh day of the eleventh month arrives … Poland’s Independence Day. And on this very day, the jury, consisting of the director, the mayor, a priest and a local poetess, will select the region’s number one patriot.
- GENRE:
- documentary
- RUNNING TIME:
- 16'
- YEAR:
- 2016
- DIRECTING:
- Agnieszka Elbanowska
- SCRIPT:
- Agnieszka Elbanowska
- DOP:
- Paweł Chorzępa
- EDITOR:
- Agnieszka Elbanowska
- PRODUCER:
- Studio Munka, IMPAKT FILM
Agnieszka Elbanowska »
Director, editor and photographer. She graduated from the University of Warsaw's Italian Department, from the History, Theory and Criticism of Cinema and Audiovisual Department of the Roma Tre University, from the Academy of Film and Television in Warsaw, and from the Wajda School. She has collaborated with Polish Television, and has co-created documentary films for TVP Polonia ("Liberta", "Prelude"). Her latest film, “The Love Equation of Henry Fast” was awarded on national and international festivals.
AT FESTIVALS:
- Quebec City Film Festival 2019, Canada, 2019 (screening)
- Festival de Finos Filmes, Brazil, 2019 (screening)
- 2Annas FF, Latvia, 2018 (competition)
- Eastern Neighbours Film Festival, The Netherlands, 2018 (screening)
- Poland Now/Istanbul Modern, Turkey, 2018 (screening)
- International Human Rights Film Festival In Albania, 2018 (competition)
- VIS Vienna Independent Shorts, Austria, 2018 (screening)
- Rooftop Films, USA, 2018 (screening)
- Bucharest International Experimental FF, Romania, 2018 (competition)
- Mittelpunkt Europa Film Fest, Germany, 2018 (screening)
- Vilnius International Short Film Festival, Lithuania, 2018 (competition)
- Bogotá Short Film Festival BOGOshorts, Colombia, 2017 (screening)
- 34th Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival, Germany, 2017 (screening)
- 62nd Valladolid International Film Festival, Spain, 2017 (competition)
- 10th Wiz-Art - Lviv International Short Film Festival, Ukraine, 2017 (Special Mention)
- CinEast - Central and Eastern European FF 2017, Luxembourg, 2017 (competition)
- Camden International Film Festival, USA, 2017 (screening)
- 7th Quebec City Film Festival, Canada, 2017 (competition)
- Ljubljana Short Film Festival, Slovenia, 2017 (competition)
- 23rd Sarajevo Film Festival, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2017 (competition)
- Dokufest, Kosovo, 2017 (competition)
- Palm Springs International ShortFest, USA, 2017 (competition)
- Encounters - South African IDFF, South Africa, 2017 (competition)
- DOKer, Russia, 2017 (competition)
- Doc Aviv, Israel, 2017 (competition)
- It’s All True - 22nd International Documentary Film Festival, Brazil, 2017 (Honorable Mention)
- Tampere Film Festival, Finland, 2017 (competition)
- True/False Film Festival, USA, 2017 (competition)
- 24th International Film Festival Camerimage, Poland, 2016 (competition)
- 32nd Warsaw Film Festival, Poland, 2016 (screening)