TANCZE DLA CIEBIE - I DANCE FOR YOU, Poland - 18min, 2018

SCRIPT and DIRECTOR Katarzyna Lesisz

CINEMATOGRAPHER Sebastian Weber, Michał Dymek

EDITOR Michał Poddębniak

PRODUCTION Munk Studio, Polish Filmmakers Association

 

Synopsis:

Twelve-year-old Wiktor is a pupil at a renowned ballet school. He’s preparing for an event of enormous importance in school life; the ‘promo show’, which decides whether or not he’ll be ‘promoted’ and move up to the next grade. All the teachers and all the pupil’s parents take part in the occasion. His grandmother is his companion as he practices for the performance, but his dream is that his father, who lives abroad, will come to the show.

AWARDS & FESTIVALS

AWARDS:

° IDFA, The Netherlands, 2018 (Best Children’s Documentary in the Kids and Docs Competition)

° 12th Central and Eastern European Film Festival CinEast, Luxembourg, 2019 (Audience Award For The Best Short Documentary Film)

° XVIII Euganea Film Festival, Italy, 2019 (Special Mention)

FESTIVALS:

° 34th Warsaw Film Festival, Poland, 2018 (competition)

° Festival International de Films de Femmes de Créteil, France, 2019 (competition)

° XXXIII Pärnu Film Festival in Pärnu, Estonia, 2019 (competition)

° IceDocs, Iceland, 2019 (screening)

° EBS International Documentary FF, South Korea, 2019 (competition)

° MakeDox, Macedonia, 2019 (competition)

° FIKE Évora International Short-Film Festival, Portugal , 2019 (competition)

° Quebec City Film Festival 2019, Canada, 2019 (competition)

° DMZ Docs, Korea, 2019 (competition)

° Kinderdocs,Greece, 2019 (screening)

° 28th dokumentART – films & future, Germany, 2019 (competition)

° PÖFF Shorts, Estonia, 2019 (competition)

° Budapest International Documentary Festival 2020, Hungary, 2020 (competition)

° 33rd Helsinki International Film Festival, Finland, 2020 (screening)

° 17th Vilnius Documentary Film Festival, Lithuania, 2020 (screening)

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