ANETA PTAK’S PROJECT SELECTED FOR LAST STOP TRIESTE
The documentary project "Birdie", directed by Aneta Ptak and produced by Staron-Film in co-production with the Icelandic company Akkeri Films, has been selected for the prestigious Last Stop Trieste programme – a work-in-progress section organised in collaboration with the Trieste Film Festival as part of the industry platform When East Meets West.
Last Stop Trieste is an international initiative dedicated to documentary films at an advanced stage of editing (fine cut), previously developed or presented at leading industry platforms such as Ex Oriente Film Workshop, Baltic Sea Docs, ZagrebDox PRO, and Docu Rough Cut Boutique. Five carefully curated documentary projects will be presented at the festival's 12th edition, each given the opportunity to screen excerpts to an international audience of sales agents, festival programmers, and TV commissioning editors. The programme is complemented by moderated feedback sessions aimed at strengthening the projects’ potential in the festival circuit and in distribution.
"Birdie" is a deeply personal and courageous documentary in which the director confronts a series of traumatic events that, within a short time span, radically changed her life. The almost simultaneous loss of her father and the breakdown of her marriage become the starting point for an intimate cinematic journey, in which the camera – instilled in her by her father, a cinematographer – serves as a tool of observation, therapy, and the reclamation of agency. Over the course of several years of filming her own everyday life and emotional states, Aneta gradually uncovers a painful truth about her relationship, coming face to face with mechanisms of manipulation, abuse, and false authority. The film ultimately becomes an act of regaining one’s voice and the right to having one’s own narrative.
You can find out more about the selected projects here.