MONK OF THE SEA
POLISH TITLE: MNICH Z MORZA
Thailand. Ball, thirty-year-old corporate guy, leads a very entertaining life full of parties. One day, he decides to become a short-term buddhist monk. So says Thai tradition. For Thai people going to the monastery is equal to a kind of initiation. In the watt Thai men become real men. Ball hopes to find his life goal within 15 days. This is how long he is about to stay in an unusual monastery surrounded by water, where he will be ordained, and where he will meet charismatic Abbot.
- GENRE:
- documentary
- COUNTRY:
- Poland
- RUNNING TIME:
- 63'
- YEAR:
- 2016
- DIRECTING:
- Rafał Skalski
- SCRIPT:
- Rafał Skalski
- DOP:
- Filip Drożdż
- EDITOR:
- Filip Drzewiecki
- PRODUCTION:
- Centrala
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.
- 56th Krakow Film Festival, Poland, 2016 (competition)
- 69th Locarno Film Festival, Switzerland, 2016 (competition)
- Jihlava International Documentary FF, Czech Republic, 2016 (competition)
- 61st Cork Film Festival, Ireland, 2016 (competition)