TONIA AND HER CHILDREN
POLISH TITLE: TONIA I JEJ DZIECI
REPRESENTED BY KFF
Tonia and Her Children is a film about the consequences of the parents’ ideological choices, which are borne by their children. The director presents a story of siblings, Wera and Marcel Lechtman, who were sent to a children’s home while their mother, a pre‑war communist, was arrested. In the film the protagonists recollect the past and are trying to understand their mother’s choices. They speak about their very personal experiences.
FILM REPRESENTED BY KRAKOW FILM FOUNDATION
- GENRE:
- documentary
- RUNNING TIME:
- 54'
- YEAR:
- 2011
- DIRECTING:
- Marcel Łoziński
- SCRIPT:
- Marcel Łoziński
- DOP:
- Paweł Łoziński, Magdalena Kowalczyk, Jacek Petrycki
- EDITOR:
- Przemysław Chruścielewski
- PRODUCTION:
- Studio Filmowe KRONIKA
Marcel Łoziński »
Born in 1940 in Paris. He earned his degree in Film Directing from Łódź Film School. He has made a number of excellent documentaries, which include The Visit (1974), Front Collision (1975), How to Live (1977), Microphone’s Test (1980), Practice Exercises (1984), Anything Can Happen (1995), So It Doesn’t Hurt (1998), How It’s Done (2006) and was nominated to the European Academy Award and American Oscar for his documentary film entitled 89 mm from Europe (1993). For the past four years he has been the head of the documentary programme at the Andrzej Wajda Master School of Film Directing.
AT FESTIVALS:
- Docudays UA International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival, Ukraine, 2012 (screening)
- International Film Festival Watch Docs - Human Rights in Film, 2012 (screening)
- Festival dei Popoli – International Documentary Film Festival, Italy, 2013 (screening)
- It's All True - 17th International Documentary Film Festival, Brazil, 2012 (competition)
- 12th GoEast – Festival of Central and Eastern European Film, 2012 (competition)
- Docaviv - The 14th Tel Aviv International Documentary Film Festival, 2012 (competition)
- "Cinema Verite" Iran International Documentary FilmFestival, Iran, 2012 (Best Mid-Lenght Film, Best Mid-Length Documentary)
- Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival, Germany, 2012 (competition)
- 21st dokumentART Film Festival, Germany, 2012 (The Award of the Foundation of the German-Polish Cooperation, The Audience Award of the Polish Television (TVP))
- Human Rights Film Festival in Zagreb, Croatia, 2012 (competition)