PLANETE KIRSAN
POLISH TITLE: PLANETA KIRSAN
Over the hills and far away, in the middle of the Russian steppe, you will find Chess City. It was built by Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, the first and only President of the Republic of Kalmykia, one of the smallest and poorest republics in the Russian Federation. In Kalmykia, there also lives a boy called Alekhan, who dreams of becoming the World Chess Champion. And his younger brother Amir, who shares the same dream. The road to make their dreams come true passes through the Chess Competition in Chess City.
FILM REPRESENTED BY THE KRAKOW FILM FOUNDATION
- GENRE:
- documentary
- COUNTRYI:
- Polska
- RUNNING TIME:
- 50'
- YEAR:
- 2010
- DIRECTING:
- Magdalena Pięta
- SCRIPT:
- Magdalena Pięta
- EDITOR:
- Mateusz Romaszkan
- MUSIC:
- Maciej Cieślak
- PRODUCER:
- Krzysztof Kopczyński - Eureka Media
AT FESTIVALS:
- Human Rights Documentary FF “Inconvenient Films”, Lithuania, 2013 (competition)
- VERZIO International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival, Hungary, 2012 (screening)
- Docudays UA International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival, Ukraine, 2012 (competition)
- DocPoint - Helsinki Documentary Film Festival, Finland, 2012 (screening)
- 35th Margaret Mead Film Festival, USA, 2011 (screening)
- Message to Man International Film Festival, Russia, 2011 (competition)
- New Zealand International Film Festival, Wellington, 2011 (screening)
- Sheffield Doc/Fest, UK, 2011 (competition)
- 9th International Documentary Film Festival CRONOGRAF, Moldova, 2011 (competition)
- FULL FRAME Documentary Film Festival, USA, 2011 (screening)
- Polish Film Festival in America, Chicago, USA, 2010 (screening)
- East Silver Market 2010, Czech Republic, 2010 (competition)