THE SIBERIAN LESSONS
POLISH TITLE: SYBERYJSKA LEKCJA
In 1996, Wojciech Staron documented Malgosia, his girlfriend, as she traveled the Siberian city Usolie-Sibirskoe and gave Polish language lessons to the descendants of exiled Poles. Captured on beautiful 16mm film, Siberian Lesson is the candid diary of a young teacher acclimating and falling in love, as well as a portrait of a community still reeling from the collapse of the Soviet Union.
- GENRE:
- documentary
- COUNTRY:
- Polska
- RUNNING TIME:
- 58'
- YEAR:
- 1998
- DIRECTING:
- Wojciech Staroń
- SCRIPT:
- Wojciech Staroń
- DOP:
- Wojciech Staroń
- EDITOR:
- Zbigniew Osiński
- MUSIC:
- Agata Steczkowska
- PRODUCTION:
- Studio Filmowe KRONIKA
Wojciech Staroń »
Cinematographer and film director. Winner of the Silver Bear at the 61st Berlinale for his cinematography in “El Premio”, directed by P. Markovitch. His directorial debut "Siberian Lesson" (1998) was awarded at festivals in Krakow, at IDFA and Cinema du Reel. "Argentine Lesson" (2011) won awards at the Cinema Eye Honor, Krakow Film Festival, DokLeipzig and Camerimage, among others. The film “Brothers” (2015) won at the Semaine de la Critique in Locarno. As a cinematographer, he has collaborated with Krzysztof Krauze and Joanna Kos-Krauze on “Plac Zbawiciela” (Golden Frog, Polish Camerimage Competition 2006), “Papusza” (Manaki Brothers Bronze Camera 2013), with Lidia Duda on “Entangled”(Kraków, Cinematography Award), “Chicks” (PSC Award 2023), with Diego Lerman on “Refugiado” (Quinzaine des Réalisateurs, Cannes 2014), M. Mubarak on “Autobiography” (Venice Orizzonti 2022), with V. Kairis on “January” (Tribeca 2022 winner) and with L. Achour on “Red Path” (Locarno, Camerimage 2024).
- LET'S CEE Film Festival, Austria , 2012 (screening)
- 17th Guanajuato International Film Festival, Mexico, 2014 (screening)
- 56th Festival dei Popoli IDFF, Italy, 2015 (screening)