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:
- 2007
- 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).
AT FESTIVALS:
- Sheffield Doc/Fest, 2007 (screening)
- Voyage Film Festival, London, UK, 2007 (screening)
- True/False Film Festival, USA, 2008 (screening)
- Cinéma du Réel, Paris, France, 2008 (screening)
- Jean Rouch Film Festival , 2008 (screening)
- Green Film Festival in Seoul , 2008 (screening)
- International Short Film Festival IN THE PALACE, Sofia, Bulgaria, 2008 (screening)
- CPH:DOX, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2008 (screening)
- L'Alternativa - Festival de Cine Independent de Barcelona, Spain, 2008 (screening)
- Polish Film Festival – Journey to Poland, Bristol, UK, 2009 (screening)
- 8th Concorto Film Festival, Pontenure (Piacenza), Italy, 2009 (screening)
- 7th Era New Horizons International Film Festival, Poland, 2007 (competition)
- DocLisboa - Lisbon International Documentary Film Festival, Portugal, 2007 (competition)
- DokLeipzig - International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film, Germany, 2007 (competition)
- International Short Film Festival interfilm, Berlin, Germany, 2007 (competition)
- The International Short Film Festival Winterthur, Switzerland, 2007 (competition)
- Festival de Cine de Alcala de Henares, Spain, 2007 (competition)
- Siena International Short Film Festival , 2007 (competition)
- Festival Doc en Courts, Lyon, 2007 (competition)
- 4. Zagreb Dox, Croatia, 2008 (competition)
- One World International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival, Prague, Czech Republic, 2008 (competition)
- Human Right Documentary Film Days, Kyiv, Ukraine, 2008 (competition)
- DocAviv, Tel Aviv, Israel, 2008 (competition)
- Belfast Film Festival, Ireland, 2008 (competition)
- 4th Ukrainian International Documentary Film Festival "Contact", Kyiv, Ukraine, 2008 (competition)
- Mediawave International Film and Music Festiwal, Hungary, 2008 (The KPMG Responsible Society Award)
- Huesca International Film Festival, Spain, 2008 (competition)
- Silverdocs Festival, USA, 2008 (competition)
- Pärnu International Film Festival, Estonia, 2008 (competition)
- 7th DokuFest Film Festival, Kosovo, 2008 (competition)
- Sardinia International Ethnographic Film Festival, Nuoro, Sardinia, 2008 (competition)
- 6th Open Russian Anthropological Film Festival, Yekaterinburg, Russia, 2008 (competition)
- EUROfEST 2008 Documentary Competition, Montreal, Kanada, 2008 (competition)
- DOCSDF - International Documentary Film Festival of Mexico City, 2008 (competition)
- Etnia Film Festival, Turku, Finland, 2008 (competition)
- 12th Ismalia International Festival For Documentary & Short Films, Egypt, 2008 (competition)
- 4th ViBGYOR Film Festival for Short & Documentary films, Thrissur, Kerala, India , 2009 (competition)