TO FLY OR NOT TO FLY
POLISH TITLE: LECIEĆ, NIE LECIEĆ
The singular beauty of wild nature is hard to understand. Working in thickets on a thin strip of land between the sea and the lake, bird researchers try to at least describe it setting off on their expeditions regardless of bad weather and difficult conditions.
FILM REPRESENTED BY THE KRAKOW FILM FOUNDATION
- GENRE:
- documentary
- COUNTRY:
- Poland
- RUNNING TIME:
- 18'
- YEAR:
- 2013
- DIRECTING:
- Aniela Gabryel
- SCRIPT:
- Aniela Gabryel
- DOP:
- Zuzanna Pyda
- EDITOR:
- Katarzyna Boniecka
- PRODUCTION:
- PWSFTviT (Państwowa Wyższa Szkoła Filmowa, Telewizyjna i Teatralna)
Aniela Gabryel »
Film director, writer, a graduate of Film Directing at Polish National Film School in Lodz and of Theatre studies at Jagiellonian University. Her short films have been screened and awarded at numerous festivals in Poland and around the world. Her full-length documentary debut When Will This Wind Stop was screened and recognized at many film festivals, including an award at IDFA in 2016. Currently she is finishing her feature fiction debut and starting to work on new film projects.
- 30th Warsaw Film Festival, Poland, 2014 (screening)
- 7th Annual Imagine Science Film Festival, USA, 2014 (screening)
- 8 th "Cinema Verite" Iran IDFF, Iran, 2014 (screening)
- Ningbo Film Festival, China, 2015 (screening)
- DOXA - Documentary Film Festival, Canada, 2014 (competition)
- VIS Vienna Independent Shorts Film Festival in Vienna, Austria, 2014 (Vienna Short Film Award for Best Fiction/Documentary Film)
- XIV International Documentary Film Festival «Flahertiana», Russia, 2014 (competition)
- 31st Tehran Short Film Festival, Iran, 2014 (competition)
- Aljazeera International Documentary Film Festival, Qatar, 2014 (competition)
- Bergamo Film Meeting 2015, Italy, 2015 (competition)
- 23rd Boskovice Festival, Czech Republic, 2015 (competition)
- 6th Iran International Green FF, Iran, 2017 (competition)