"15 CORNERS OF THE WORLD" AWARDED IN LOCARNO!
The first foreign screening of the documentary "15 corners of the world" by Zuzanna Solakiewicz, turned out to be a big success. The film, shown in the "Semaine de la Critique" section at the Locarno Film Festival, won the SRG SSR Award - the award by the Swiss public radio and television broadcaster.
This year's edition of the Locarno Film Festival in, one of the oldest and the most prestigious film festivals in the world, ended last Saturday, on 16th August. The festival turned out to be very lucky for Zuzanna Solakiewicz, whose latest documentary - "15 corners of the world" - participated in the competitive section "Semaine de la Critique". The film enjoyed large interest and appreciation from the viewers, and the representatives of the company SGR SSR, the Swiss public radio and television broadcaster, decided to grant it their award - Premio SGR SSR. It is worth adding that the screening in Locarno was the film's international première.
The protagonist of "15 corners of the world," Eugeniusz Rudnik, is the first Polish electroacoustic music maker, the co-author of the legendary Experimental Studio in the Polish Radio, as well as co-worker of Electronic Music Studio in Cologne. He never became a star. For his entire life, he was bent over the console, with scissors in his hand, among his everyday services, counted in hundreds, for his colleagues from the radio, composers and filmmakers, he made his own tunes. For Rudnik, sound is a piece of magnetic tape, which you can touch, cut, glue together - analogue materials are for him a source of inspiration and necessary condition for his creativity. For him, it is a wonder which came true in the era of tape recorders and disappeared with the coming of computers.
It is worth adding that The Cinema & Gioventù Special Mention in Locarno went to the short film "Mother Earth" by Piotr Złotorowicz.
The full list of the award-winning films at the festival in Locarno can be found here.