IN TOUCH
REPRESENTED BY KFF
In Touch is a film about people from Stare Juchy, a village located in north‑east Poland, where one third of the inhabitants emigrated to Iceland. In a visual journey, the film allows those families divided by huge distance a chance for a vague moment to reunite and become one again. By using sound from everyday Skype conversations In Touch also explores the relations between those who migrated and those who are left behind.
- GENRE:
- documentary
- COUNTRY:
- Poland, Iceland
- RUNNING TIME:
- 60'
- YEAR:
- 2018
- DIRECTING:
- Paweł Ziemilski
- SCRIPT:
- Paweł Ziemilski
- DOP:
- Filip Drożdż, Asta Julia Gudjonsdottir
- EDITOR:
- Dorota Wardęszkiewicz
- PRODUCTION:
- TVP SA, NUR, Join Motion Pictures
Paweł Ziemilski »
Paweł Ziemilski Born in 1981, graduated from the the Łódź National Film School and from the Wajda Schoolin Warsaw. Short documentary and fiction films he made so far received wide publicity at numerous film festivals around the world and got many prestigious awards. His documentary “Rogalik’ got IDFA nomination in 2012. It has also been shown and awarded at festivals such as Zagreb Dox, Alcine Festival (First Prize), festivals in Oberhausen, Beijing, Bucharest, Cracow and others. Apart from directing, Paweł Ziemilski is involved in social animation, organizing workshops for so-called troubled youth. His latest “In Touch” documentary got Paweł Ziemilski a Mid-Length Special Jury Award at IDFA 2018.
AT FESTIVALS:
- Message to Man IFF 2019, Russia, 2019 (screening)
- Cottbus Film Festival, Germany, 2019 (screening)
- West Lake International Documentary Festival, China, 2023 (screening)
- IDFA, The Netherlands, 2018 (The IDFA Special Jury Award for Mid-Length Documentary)
- 21st Thessaloniki Documentary Festival, Greece, 2019 (Human Values Award)
- One World IHR Documentary FF, Czech Republic, 2019 (competition)
- Skjadborg Film Festival 2019, Iceland, 2019 (Grand Jury Prize)
- XXXIII Pärnu Film Festival in Pärnu, Estonia, 2019 (competition)
- IceDocs, Iceland, 2019 (competition)
- Flahertiana - IDFF, Russia, 2019 (competition)
- Inconvenient Films IDHRFF, Lithuania, 2019 (competition)
- Astra Film Festival, Romania, 2019 (competition)
- Riga International Film Festival, Latvia, 2019 (competition)
- 3rd West Lake International Documentary FF, China, 2019 (competition)
- Valladolid International FF, Spain, 2019 (competition)
- DOK Leipzig 2019, Germany, 2019 (competition)
- Nordische Filmtage Lübeck, Germany, 2019 (competition)
- Listapad IFF, Belarus, 2019 (competition)
- Eastern Neighbours Film Festival, The Netherlands, 2019 (competition)
- Camerimage IFF, Poland, 2019 (competition)
- 15th FilmPOLSKA Festival, Germany, 2020 (competition)
- 21st IFF ETNOFILM Čadca, Slovakia, 2020 (competition)