THE FIRST DAY

POLISH TITLE: PIERWSZY DZIEŃ

REPRESENTED BY KFF

It's a story about one of the most important moments in everybody's life. About the first border young people have to cross to become adults. In case of this film it's a few children from tundra moved to the urban environment. The film was made within the framework of the "Russia-Poland. New Gaze" project (second edition).

FILM REPRESENTED BY THE KRAKOW FILM FOUNDATION

GENRE:
documentary
RUNNING TIME:
20'
YEAR:
DIRECTING:
Marcin Sauter
DOP:
Marcin Sauter
EDITOR:
Tymek Wiskirski
PRODUCTION:
Krzysztof Kopczyński - Eureka Media

Marcin Sauter »

Photographer, cinematographer and film director. Born in 1971 in Bydgoszcz. A member of the Association of Polish Art Photographers, he has had several dozen individual exhibitions of photography. He teaches at the Andrzej Wajda Master School of Film Directing. He established the foundation The Bydgoszcz Newsreel. His adventure with the cinema started in 1997 when he cooperated with Maciej Cuske on the feature film "What Do You Think About It, Gałuszko?". Then, he continued with such documentaries as "The Travelling Cinema" (2005), "North From Calabria" (2009) and "Hakawati" (2011).
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