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SIX WEEKS

POLISH TITLE: SZEŚĆ TYGODNI

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Living on welfare payments too small to survive on, in a tiny apartment with no hot water or gas, a single mother has no choice but to give her newborn to an orphanage. 6 Weeks is an intimate and powerful short that documents a mother’s painful goodbye as her baby, along with so many other babies, awaits its future in a Polish orphanage.

FILM REPRESENTED BY THE KRAKOW FILM FOUNDATION

GENRE:
documentary
RUNNING TIME:
18'
YEAR:
DIRECTING:
Marcin Janos Krawczyk
SCRIPT:
Marcin Janos Krawczyk
EDITOR:
Agnieszka Glińska
PRODUCTION:
Staron Film SC, TVP S.A.

Marcin Janos Krawczyk »

Marcin Janos Krawczyk. Born on 26 October 1978. Director, Writer, Producer. Member of the Polish Filmmakers Association. Graduate of the Andrzej Wajda Master School of Film Directing and the Academy of Dramatic Arts in Wroclaw. As a director, he made his debut with the film "Rendez-vous", nominated for and winning numerous awards at dozens of festivals around the world, including Hot Docs 2007 Silverdocs 2007, Cinema du Reel 2007, and the Short Film Competition at the 57th Berlinale International Film Festival 2007. Another of his films, "Six Weeks", premièred at the IDFA festival in Amsterdam in 2009, where it won the main prize. In the same year, it also won the Silver Eye and was selected for over forty festivals. As a producer he debuted with the film "Mother 24/7" made for Polish Television. Currently at the festiwal "The Land of the Homeless".  

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