WORLD ACCORDING TO HANIA AND STAS
POLISH TITLE: CAŁY ŚWIAT HANI I STASIA
There is also a shorter 28-minutes-long version of the film.
A year in the life of Hania and Stas, a married couple in their 50s, who've had their ups and downs, but now live in Sułkowice, a village near Kraków, in harmony with nature, despite the fast changes around them a farmland turning into suburbia. Tempted by an arising opportunity, Hania and Staszek decide to come into money by selling the land they've farmed to a developer building for Kraków's young adults. Will this step mark an end of their long-established lifestyle? A story of an older face of love and a struggle to keep one's diginity in the face of dynamic changes in the country in 21st-century Poland.
- GENRE:
- documentary
- RUNNING TIME:
- 53'
- YEAR:
- 2011
- DIRECTING:
- Tomasz Jurkiewicz
- SCRIPT:
- Tomasz Woźniczka, Tomasz Jurkiewicz
- DOP:
- Tomasz Woźniczka
- EDITOR:
- Daniel Gąsiorowski
- PRODUCTION:
- APPETITE PRODUCTION
Tomasz Jurkiewicz »
born in 1981, a graduate of film studies at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow and Film Directing at the Krzysztof Kieślowski Radio and Television Department of the Silesia University. The author of short films: "Franciszek" (2005), "Broadcast Rehearsal" (2006), "Sleepwalkers" (2007), "Live Action Radio" (2007), "Merry Christmas" (2009), "Grandma has gone" (2009), "If fish could talk" (2010) awarded on many Polish (Cracow, Gdynia, Warsaw) and international film festivals (Karlove Vary, Seul). Screenwriter.
AT FESTIVALS:
- 25th Pärnu International Film Festival, Estonia, 2011 (screening)
- XXI Europejski Festiwal Filmów Dokumentalnych DokumentART, 2012 (screening)
- Cinema Perpetum Mobile, 2013 (screening)
- 15. Międzynarodowy Festiwal Filmowy Off Cinema, 2011 (competition)
- XII Międzynarodowy Festiwal Filmowy T-Mobile Nowe Horyzonty, 2012 (competition)
- Dokubazaar 2012, Slovenia, 2012 (competition)
- 12th International Short & Independent Film Festival, Dhaka 12, 2012 (competition)