TWO WORLDS
POLISH TITLE: DWA ŚWIATY
Three people, two ways of perceiving reality and one family. The film is a portrait of deaf parents and their 12-year old daughter. Laura takes on the role of her father and mother’s mouths and ears helping them in everyday activities, such as, for example, buying coal. In the film she is also the medium that, with empathy, introduces the spectator to the daily life of people with disabilities. Not only is she the narrator, but also the transmitter of emotions that could not have found an outlet to the world of the hearing without her assistance.
- GENRE:
- documentary
- COUNTRYI:
- Polska
- RUNNING TIME:
- 51'
- YEAR:
- 2016
- DIRECTING:
- Maciej Adamek
- SCRIPT:
- Maciej Adamek
- DOP:
- Mateusz Skalski
- MUSIC:
- Paris Music
- PRODUCER:
- Metro Films
Maciej Adamek »
Director and scriptwriter. Graduated from Polish Philology at Gdańsk University and directing at Polish National Film School in Łódź. His film received many prestigious awards.
AT FESTIVALS:
- Bay Area International Children's Film Festival, USA, 2019 (competition)
- Prospectiva BRIO Festival of Visual Cultures, Italy, 2018 (competition)
- Breaking Down Borders, Russia, 2018 (Best Short Documentary)
- Tripoli Docudays, Lebanon, 2018 (competition)
- ZERO PLUS International Film Festival, Russia, 2018 (screening)
- Al Jazeera Balkans Documentary Film Festival, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2018 (competition)
- Defy Film Festival, USA, 2018 (competition)
- Busan International Kids and Youth Film Festival, Korea, 2018 (competition)
- Pärnu Film Festival, Estonia, 2018 (Best Doc for Kids)
- Crimean Open Documentary Films Festival “CrimeaDoc", Republic of Crimea, 2018 (Grand Prix)
- Human Rights Documentary Film Festival “Chesnok”, Moldova, 2018 (screening)
- The Norwegian Documentary Film Festival, Norway, 2018 (competition)
- Richmond International Film & Music Festival, USA, 2018 (competition)
- Thin Line Fest, USA, 2018 (competition)
- Peloponnese International Documentary Festival, Greece, 2018 (competition)
- Cinema Crianza Children Film Festival, Spain, 2017 (competition)
- GZDOC 2017, China, 2017 (competition)
- Bi- Bak Film Festival in Berlin, Germany, 2017 (screening)
- Festival Inclús, Spain, 2017 (Best Documentary Feature Film)
- Family Film Project, Internacional Festival of Family Films, Ethnography and Archive, Portugal, 2017 (competition)
- Weyauwega International Film Festival, USA, 2017 (Best Short Documentary)
- Lost River Film Festival, USA, 2017 (competition)
- DOK Leipzig 2017, Germany, 2017 (screening)
- Prix Europa, Germany, 2017 (competition)
- Inconvenient Films in Vilnius, Lithuania, 2017 (screening)
- Bosifest 2017, Serbia, 2017 (Special Mention)
- Buffalo International Film Festival, USA, 2017 (competition)
- Saratov Sufferings Documentary Drama Film Festival, Russia, 2017 (Audience Award)
- DMZ Int'l Documentary Film Festival 2017, South Korea, 2017 (screening)
- Ouarzazate International Film Festival, Maroko, 2017 (competition)
- Jacksonville Documentary Film Festival, USA, 2017 (screening)
- AbilityFest - India International Disability Film Festival, India, 2017 (screening)
- Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival, USA, 2017 (competition)
- ARKIPEL Jakarta International Documentary and Experimental Film Festival, Indonesia, 2017 (Jury Award)
- Festival de Cinema de Douarnenez, France, 2017 (competition)
- Assim Vivemos - Brazil's International Disability Film Festival, Brazil, 2017 (screening)
- Blue Whiskey Independent Film Festival, USA, 2017 (competition)
- Festival de Cine MÁS, Nicaragua, 2017 (competition)
- FaitoDOCfestival, Italy, 2017 (Young Jury Award)
- International Documentary Film Festival CRONOGRAF, Moldova, 2017 (competition)
- Seoul Guro International Kids Film Festival, Korea, 2017 (Audience Award)
- Ridgefield Independent Film Festival, USA, 2017 (competition)
- EDOC Film Festival, Ecuador, 2017 (competition)
- Green Point Film Festival, USA, 2017 (Best Documentary Feature)
- Addis International Film Festival, Etiopia, 2017 (competition)
- Julien Dubuque International Film Festival, USA, 2017 (competition)
- BAFICI, Argentina, 2017 (competition)
- Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, USA, 2017 (competition)
- Wales International Documentary Festival, The United Kingdom, 2017 (Best Feature Film)
- Reel 2 Reel International Film Festival for Youth, Canada, 2017 (competition)
- American Documentary Film Festival, USA, 2017 (competition)
- Atlanta Film Festival, USA, 2017 (competition)
- 10th Sebastopol Documentary Film Festival, USA, 2017 (screening)
- One World International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival, Czech Republic, 2017 (competition)
- Green Bay Film Festival, USA, 2017 (competition)
- Providence Children’s Film Festival, USA, 2017 (competition)
- Glasgow Film Festival, Scotland, 2017 (screening)
- 25th dokumentART, Germany, 2016 (competition)
- Doxs! Dokumentarfilme für kinder und jugendliche 2016, Germany, 2016 (screening)
- St. Louis International Film Festival 2016, USA, 2016 (competition)
- DOK Leipzig 2016, Germany, 2016 (screening)
- 33rd Chicago International Children's Film Festival, USA, 2016 (Best Feature Documentary)
- United Nations Association Film Festival, USA, 2016 (screening)
- Other Film Festival, Australia, 2016 (screening)
- Harlem Film Festival, USA, 2016 (Most Remarkable Young Person on Screen)
- 20th Rhode Island Film Festival, USA, 2016 (Best Feature Documentary)
- AFI DOCS, USA, 2016 (competition)
- 56th Krakow Film Festival, Poland, 2016 (competition)