52 PERCENT
POLISH TITLE: 52 PROCENT
Alla wants to become a ballet dancer very much. It is her another attempt to be admitted to the famous Russian Waganowa Ballet Academy in Sankt Petersburg. Entrance exams are extremely difficult for her. Alla needs to practice additionally to lengthen her legs since her proportions are not correct. 52% is an ideal ratio of legs to height. The film was made during the second edition of the project Russia – Poland. New Gaze.
FILM REPRESENTED BY THE KRAKOW FILM FOUNDATION
- GENRE:
- documentary
- COUNTRY:
- pl
- RUNNING TIME:
- 20'
- YEAR:
- 2007
- DIRECTING:
- Rafał Skalski
- SCRIPT:
- Rafał Skalski
- DOP:
- Jakub Giza
- EDITOR:
- Cecylia Pacura
- MUSIC:
- Łukasz Lach
- PRODUCTION:
- PWSFTviT (Państwowa Wyższa Szkoła Filmowa, Telewizyjna i Teatralna), TVP S.A., Krzysztof Kopczyński - Eureka Media
Rafał Skalski »
Rafał Skalski - born 1985, 8 September. Film director and script writer of documentaries, fictions and commercials.A graduate of the Directing Department of the Polish National Film School in Lodz. His films “52 percent" (Polish National Television, 2007), “Girls” (Polish National Television, 2009), “Play with me” (Polish National Television, 2010),”Lovers” (HBO, 2010) have been awarded and screened at many international festivals such as Cannes, IDFA Amsterdam, DOXA Vancouver, London, Lisbon, Toronto, Cracow, etc.
He has been awarded several scholarships for talented young artists in Poland, participated at the Berlinale Talent Campus and is a member of the Polish Film Academy.
- Sheffield Doc/Fest, 2007 (screening)
- Tempo Documentary Festival, Stockholm, Sweden, 2007 (screening)
- Sydney Film Festival, Australia, 2008 (screening)
- International Short Film Festival IN THE PALACE, Sofia, Bulgaria, 2008 (screening)
- Ourense International Film Festival, Spain, 2008 (screening)
- Doclisboa, Portugalia, 2008 (screening)
- Polish Film Festival – Journey to Poland, Bristol, UK, 2009 (screening)
- Ljubljana Independent Documentary Film Festival DOKUBAZAAR, Slovenia, 2010 (screening)
- Festival de Boca del Lobo, Spain, 2010 (screening)
- MUJERDOC - II International Documentary Film Festival On Gender, Spain, 2011 (screening)
- 10th Tabor Film Festival, Croatia, 2012 (screening)
- DocsDF 2012, Mexico, 2012 (screening)
- Fano International Film Festival, Italy, (Video Digitale First Award)
- 7th Era New Horizons International Film Festival, Poland, 2007 (competition)
- International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam, Holland, 2007 (competition)
- GZDOC, Guaghzou, China, 2007 (competition)
- Tous Court, Aix-en-Provence, France, 2007 (competition)
- International Documentary Festival of Navarra "Punto de Vista", Spain, 2008 (Award for the Best Short Film)
- 4. Zagreb Dox, Croatia, 2008 (Special Mention)
- It's All True - International Documentary Film Festival, Sao Paulo, Brazil, 2008 (competition)
- Human Right Documentary Film Days, Kyiv, Ukraine, 2008 (competition)
- Vilnius Film Shorts, Lithuania, 2008 (Award for the Best Documentary)
- Belfast Film Festival, Ireland, 2008 (competition)
- Hot Docs CanadianInternational Documentary Festival, Toronto, Canada, 2008 (competition)
- Mediawave International Film and Music Festiwal, Hungary, 2008 (Special Mention)
- IndieLisboa - Lisbon International Independent Film Festival, Portugal, 2008 (competition)
- Mo&Friese Children`s Short Festival Hamburg, Germany, 2008 (competition)
- Huesca International Film Festival, Spain, 2008 (competition)
- Message to Man - International Short and Documentary Film Festival, 2008 (competition)
- Silverdocs Festival, USA, 2008 (competition)
- Curt.doc Short Documentary Festival, 2008 (competition)
- IBFF - International Bunker Film Festival, Ventimiglia, Italy, 2008 (competition)
- 7th DokuFest Film Festival, Kosovo, 2008 (competition)
- Monterrey International Film Festival, Mexico, 2008 (competition)
- Fresh Film Fest - International Student Film Festival, Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic, 2008 (competition)
- Concorto Film Festival, 2008 (Special mention of the Program Direction)
- Cinefest, Miskolc, Hungary, 2008 (Best Documentary Film)
- Open St. Petersburg Student Film Festival "Beginning", 2008 (Special Diploma)
- Docupolis, Barcelona, Spain, 2008 (competition)
- 52nd London Film Festival , 2008 (competition)
- Cortopotere ShortFilmFestival, Bergamo, Italy, 2008 (competition)
- Leeds Film Festival , 2008 (competition)
- ALCINE - Festival de Cine de Alcalá de Henares / Comunidad de Madrid, 2008 (competition)
- Bilbao Film Festival, Spain, 2008 (competition)
- 12th edition of bAT?k Film Festival in Perugia , Italy, 2008 (competition)
- Austin Polish Film Festival 2009, 2009 (competition)
- DOXA Documentary Film Festival, Canada, 2010 (DOXA Short Documentary Award)