CALL ME MARIANNA
POLISH TITLE: MÓW MI MARIANNA
Marianna has made a dramatic choice between life in harmony with her identity and staying with her family. Preparing for gender reassignment, she had to leave her home and, following the Polish law, sue her parents in court. On the threshold of a new life, fate turned out to be extremely cruel to her. During rehearsals for a theatre play inspired by Marianna’s story the protagonist must face the difficult experiences from the time of her marriage once again.
- GENRE:
- documentary
- COUNTRY:
- Poland
- RUNNING TIME:
- 75'
- YEAR:
- 2015
- DIRECTING:
- Karolina Bielawska
- SCRIPT:
- Karolina Bielawska
- DOP:
- Kacper Czubak
- EDITOR:
- Daniel Gąsiorowski
- MUSIC:
- Natalia Fiedorczuk, Antony and The Johnsons
- SOUND:
- Jacek Pająk
- PRODUCTION:
- KALEJDOSKOP Film Studio
- COPRODUCTION:
- TVP
Karolina Bielawska »
Graduate of film directing at the Radio and Television Department of The University of Silesia in Katowice and the feature film course at the Andrzej Wajda Master School of Film Directing. Directed short feature films and documentaries which have been shown and awarded at film festivals in Poland and abroad. Her film “The End of Summer” have won the following awards: Golden Cat Award for the best film at the International Izmir Short Film Festival in 2007, Golden Medal of the Union Internationale du Cinema at the World Independent Film Festival UNICA in Tunisia (2008), Bronze Medal in the category: works by film school students at the 49th International Competitive Festival of Short Fiction Films BRNO SIXTEEN 2008. „Warsaw available” co-direct with Julia Ruszkiewicz have won The Golden Hobby-horse of Best Polish Film at 50th Krakow Film Festival 2010.
AT FESTIVALS:
- Filmfest Hamburg, Germany, 2015 (screening)
- Play Poland Film Festival, United Kingdom, 2015 (screening)
- 38th Denver Film Festival, USA, 2015 (screening)
- European Film Forum Scanorama, Lithuania, 2015 (screening)
- Cork Film Festival, Ireland, 2015 (screening)
- Black Nights Film Festival, Estonia, 2015 (screening)
- 28th International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2015 (screening)
- Stockfish Film Festival, Iceland, 2016 (screening)
- 55th Krakow Film Festival, Poland, 2015 (Maciej Szumowski Award, The Award for the Best Short and Documentary Films Producer in Poland, The Audience Award, The Golden Horn)
- 68th Locarno International Film Festival, Switzerland, 2015 (Premio Zonta Club Locarno)
- Queer Lisboa 19, Portugal, 2015 (Best Documentary)
- 25th Message to Man International FF, Russia, 2015 (Grand Prix - Golden Centaur, Press Jury Prize)
- Let's Cee Film Festival 2015, Austria, 2015 (competition)
- Mix Copenhagen Film Festival, Denmark, 2015 (competition)
- 8th CinEast Central and Eastern European Film Festival, Luxembourg, 2015 (competition)
- 51st Chicago International Film Festival, USA, 2015 (competition)
- fARAD Documentary Film Festival, Romania, 2015 (competition)
- CinéDoc-Tbilisi IDFF, Georgia, 2015 (competition)
- 19th Jihlava Documentary Film Festival, Czech Republic, 2015 (competition)
- Minsk IFF "Listapad", Belarus, 2015 (competition)
- Göteborg Film Festival, Sweden, 2016 (competition)
- One World IHR Documentary FF, Czech Republic, 2016 (competition)
- 13th Docudays UA, Ukraine, 2016 (Main Prize DOCU/RIGHT)
- 19th Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, USA, 2016 (Charles E. Guggenheim Emerging Artist Award)
- 18th Doc Aviv, Tel Aviv Documentary Film Festival, Israel, 2016 (Best International Film Award, Special Mention)