ABU HARAZ
REPRESENTED BY KFF
Abu Haraz is a small village in the middle of the desert in North Sudan. The construction of a huge dam on the Nile has interfered with the age-old, natural rhythm of the lives of its residents. The filmmakers have spent several years with them, observing their vain attempts to turn back fate…
FILM REPRESENTED BY KRAKOW FILM FOUNDATION
- GENRE:
- documentary
- COUNTRY:
- Poland
- RUNNING TIME:
- 73'
- YEAR:
- 2013
- DIRECTING:
- Maciej Drygas
- SCRIPT:
- Maciej Drygas
- DOP:
- Andrzej Musiał
- EDITOR:
- Rafał Listopad
- MUSIC:
- Paweł Szymański
- PRODUCTION:
- Drygas Production
Maciej Drygas »
scriptwriter and documentary film director born in 1956 in Łódź. After graduation from the Film Directing Department at Moscow’s VGIK in 1981 he worked with Krzysztof Zanussi and Krzysztof Kieślowski as a director’s assistant. His documentaries include False Start (1981), Psychotherapy (1984), Hear My Cry (1991), State of Weightlessness (1994), Głos nadziei (2002), One Day in People’s Poland (2005). He has won a number of festival awards in, among others, Mumbai, Huston, Tai Pei, Monte Carlo, San Francisco, Nyon and Kraków. Currently he teaches at the Film School in Łódź.
AT FESTIVALS:
- 21st Camerimage International Film Festival, Poland, 2013 (screening)
- Festival dei Popoli – International Documentary Film Festival, Italy, 2013 (screening)
- Documentarist, Turkey, 2014 (screening)
- Flahertiana Film Festival, Russia, 2017 (screening)
- Cinema Verite - Iran International Documentary FF, Iran, 2013 (Best Full-Length Documentary)
- Docudays UA International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival, Ukraine, 2014 (competition)
- DOXA - Documentary Film Festival, Canada, 2014 (competition)
- Festival of Migrant Film in Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2014 (competition)
- 28th Pärnu International Documentary and Antropological FF, Estonia, 2014 (Prize for the Best Film on Survival of Indigenous Peoples)
- Film Festival della Lessinia, Italy, 2014 (competition)
- Saratov Sufferings International FF of Documentary Drama, Russia, 2014 (competition)
- XIV International Documentary Film Festival «Flahertiana», Russia, 2014 (Big Golden Nanook, Silver Nanook)
- Szczecin European Film Festival, Poland/Germany, 2014 (competition)
- Festival Ânûû-rû Âboro, Nouvelle-Calédonie, 2014 (Grand Prix)
- Doku Bazaar Ljubljana IDFF, Slovenia, 2014 (competition)
- Bozcaada International Festival Of Ecological Documentary, Turkey, 2014 (competition)
- International Gaziantep Zeugma Film Festival, Turkey, 2014 (competition)
- 33rd Jean Rouch International Film Festival, France, 2014 (Prix Monde en Regards)
- Marda Loop Justice Film Festival, Canada, 2014 (competition)
- Millenium International Festival, Belgium, 2015 (competition)
- The Archaeology Channel International Film and Video Festival, USA, 2015 (Special Mention by Jury for best documentation of cultural change, Honorable Mention by Jury for Cinematography)
- 12th Filmfest Eberswalde, Germany, 2015 (competition)