KNIFE IN THE WIFE
POLISH TITLE: NÓŻ W WOZIE
Knife in the Wife is an impressionistic documentary showing the life of a provincial circus called ‘Arizona’, which is grotesque on some occasions and sad on others. The showpiece of this troupe of six people is throwing knives. Their glory days are over now, their programme is not of the highest order, yet the magic of circus is still there and their young audiences watch the show with flushed cheeks.
- GENRE:
- documentary
- COUNTRY:
- Poland
- RUNNING TIME:
- 11'
- YEAR:
- 2014
- DIRECTING:
- Vita Maria Drygas
- SCRIPT:
- Vita Maria Drygas
- DOP:
- Vita Maria Drygas
- EDITOR:
- Tomasz Ciesielski
- MUSIC:
- Atanas Valkov
- PRODUCTION:
- Wydział Radia i Telewizji Uniwersytetu Śląskiego w Katowicach (WRiTv UŚ)
Vita Maria Drygas »
Film and photography director. She was born in 1984 in Vilnius. A graduate of French Studies at Warsaw University. She also studied at the Photography Department of the Film School in Łodz and completed Developement Lab at the Andrzej Wajda Master School of Film . Currently graduate student at the Radio and Television Faculty of the University of Silesia. Her debut was the short documentary film Knife in the Wife.
AT FESTIVALS:
- 20th Drama International Short Film Festival, Greece, 2014 (screening)
- Busho Vision 11 - Budapest ISFF, Hungary, 2015 (screening)
- Play Poland Film Festival, United Kingdom, 2015 (screening)
- 23rd IFF Camerimage, Poland, 2015 (screening)
- 3rd Chennai International Short Film Festival, India, 2016 (screening)
- Cheap Cuts Documentary Film Festival, The United Kingdom, 2016 (screening)
- 54th Krakow Film Festival, Poland, 2014 (competition)
- 24th Message to Man International Film Fesival, Russia, 2014 (competition)
- Szczecin European Film Festival, Poland/Germany, 2014 (competition)
- 23rd DokumentART - European Festival for Documentaries, Germany, 2014 (competition)
- 21st Etiuda & Anima International Film Festival, Poland , 2014 (competition)
- 25th Mediawave International Film and Media Gathering, Hungary, 2015 (Best Short Documentary Film)
- FIKE 2015 - 13th ISFF, Portugal, 2015 (Special Mention)
- 14th Euganea Film Festival, Italy, 2015 (competition)
- UNICA World Film Competition 2015, Russia, 2015 (UNICA Bronze Prize, Best Photography of UNICA)
- 20th Riga International Film festival 2ANNAS 2015, Latvia, 2015 (competition)
- 15th Nice Short Film Festival - Un festival c'est trop court, France, 2015 (competition)
- "Les Enfants terribles" European First Film Festival 2015, Belgium, 2015 (competition)
- 8th Tangier International Film Festival, Maroko, 2015 (The Golden Cave)
- Luksuz Film Festival 2015, Slovenia, 2015 (The Best Arizona Dream Award)
- 2nd First Step Film Festival, Albania, 2015 (competition)
- 22nd Ann Arbor Polish Film Festival, USA, 2015 (competition)
- 14th St Petersburg International Festival of Debut and Student Films Beginning, Russia, 2015 (competition)
- 38th Poitiers Film Festival, France, 2015 (competition)
- 17th International Short Film Festival Bunter Hund, Germany, 2016 (competition)
- Paphos International Film Festival, Cyprus, 2016 (competition)