BY THE RIVER
POLISH TITLE: PRZY RZECE
REPRESENTED BY KFF
Dawn. The black figures appearing in the brushwood. They seem to be working. The sound of cracking branches, after a while we notice the movement of hatchets. Warsaw on the other side of the Vistula river unfolds itself.
FILM REPRESENTED BY THE KRAKOW FILM FOUNDATION
- GENRE:
- documentary
- COUNTRY:
- pl
- RUNNING TIME:
- 12'
- YEAR:
- 2006
- DIRECTING:
- Magdalena Kowalczyk
- SCRIPT:
- Magdalena Kowalczyk
- DOP:
- Piotr Niemyjski
- EDITOR:
- Magdalena Kowalczyk
- PRODUCTION:
- Mistrzowska Szkoła Reżyserii Filmowej Andrzeja Wajdy (obecnie: Wajda Studio)
Magdalena Kowalczyk »
Was born in 1983 r. in Warsaw. She graduated from documentary course in the Andrzej Wajda Master School of Film Directing. Her film “Reflection” was made during the „Film Kindergarden” Course in Andrzej Wajda Master School of Film Directing. The film was awarded on the XII IFF "ETIUDA&ANIMA" 2005. She’s a one of director’s in “Silence II” – a set of etudes made by students of the Andrzej Wajda Master School of Film Directing and a co-director in the Polish-German project “Reflection” – a set of shorts made as a result of cooperation of the Andrzej Wajda Master School of Film Directing and the International Filmschul Koln in 2006. Her last short documentary is called “By the river” (2006)
AT FESTIVALS:
- GZDOC, Guaghzou, China, 2006 (screening)
- Pärnu International Documentary and Anthropology Film Festival, Estonia, 2007 (screening)
- Tempo Documentary Festival, Stockholm, Sweden, 2007 (screening)
- Doclisboa, Portugalia, 2008 (screening)
- Molodist, Kiyev, Ukraine, 2008 (screening)
- Worldwide Short Film Festival, Canada, 2010 (screening)
- Margaret Mead Film & Video Festival, USA, 2010 (screening)
- Hot Docs - Canadian International Documentary Festival , Toronto, Canada, 2007 (competition)
- Era New Horizons International Film Festival, Wrocław, Poland, 2007 (competition)
- 7th Era New Horizons International Film Festival, Poland, 2007 (competition)
- Iran International Documentary Film Festival, Tehran, Iran, 2007 (competition)
- Uppsala International Short Film Festival, Sweden, 2007 (competition)
- Cortopotere Short Film Festival, Italy, 2007 (competition)
AWARDS AT POLISH FESTIVALS:
* GoEast Fil Festival Wiesbaden 2008 - The Best Documentary in the student films competition and the Audience Award