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POLISH TITLE: TAMA
A father and a son on a trip. They meet to spend some time together after the period when they broke off contacts. But it is not a carefree weekend at a hut in the Bieszczady mountains. The drunk father asks a rhetorical question: “And what, did you think it would be easy?” Building the eponymous dam on a mountain stream may be understood as fighting your own weakness, making joint efforts to overcome bias and mutual grievances. In the pool thus created, they may find expurgation and (temporary) solace.
- GENRE:
- documentary
- COUNTRYI:
- Poland
- RUNNING TIME:
- 22'
- YEAR:
- 2018
- DIRECTING:
- Natalia Koniarz
- SCRIPT:
- Natalia Koniarz
- DOP:
- Stanisław Cuske
- EDITOR:
- Natalia Koniarz, Stanisław Cuske
- SOUND:
- Dariusz Wancerz, Bartłomiej Majewicz
- PRODUCER:
- Szkoła Filmowa im. Krzysztofa Kieślowskiego
AT FESTIVALS:
- The Pigeon International Film Festival, 2021, Iceland, 2021 (competition)
- 4th Cheap Cuts Documentary Film Festival, UK, 2020 (competition)
- FIPADOC 2020, France, 2020 (The Tënk Award)
- Sound & Image Challenge International Festival, China, 2019 (Best Documentary)
- Scanorama, Lithuania, 2019 (competition)
- Listapad IFF, Belarus, 2019 (competition)
- Szczecin Film Festival, Poland, 2019 (competition)
- FEST — New Directors | New Films Festival 2019, Portugal, 2019 (Honorable Mention)
- Moscow International Documentary Film Festival DOKer, Russia, 2019 (Special Mention)
- 11th Go Short - International Short Film Festival, The Netherlands, 2019 (The Encouragement Award)
- Skopje Film Festival, Macedonia, 2019 (competition)
- Camerimage International Film Festival 2018, Poland, 2018 (competition)
- 34th Warsaw Film Festival, Poland, 2018 (screening)
- 58th Krakow Film Festival, Poland, 2018 (competition)