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"The Contest" is a documentary observation made during the International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition Preliminaries in 2010. It pictures world of contestants' inner emotions. Documentary also questions the point of competition in art, which is tend to be judged in the same category as sport, and at the same time deprived of its main features such as intimacy, independence and individuality. FILM REPRESENTED BY THE KRAKOW FILM FOUNDATION
Jakub Cuman
Director. A graduate at Andrzej Wajda Master School of Film Directing in Warsaw. The author of a documentary etiude "Podróż". He started with off-films. Later on, co-operated with TVP and TVN in creating television documentaries and short documentary forms. Cooperated with director Janusz Majewski on feature films: "Miłość w przejściu podziemnym" and "Mała Matura 1947". Recently directed documentary film „Konkurs”. Member of FILM 1,2 Association.
at festivals:
- ZAGREBDOX International Documentary Film Festival, Croatia, 2012
(screening)
- The New Generation of Polish Filmmakers, USA, 2012
(screening)
- 31st Fajr International Film Festival, Iran, 2013
(screening)
- 11th Era New Horizons International Film Festival, Poland, 2011
(competition)
- Ekran 2011 – Toronto Polish Film Festival, Canada, 2011 (Nagroda im. Michała Maryniarczyka)
- South by South West, USA, 2012
(competition)
- Docaviv - The 14th Tel Aviv International Documentary Film Festival, 2012
(competition)
- International Short Film Competition of FIB Cinema 2012, Spain, 2012
(competition)
- International Short Film Competition of FIB Cinema, Spain, 2012
(competition)
- 13th Annual Polish Film Festival, USA, 2012
(competition)
- Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival, Germany, 2012
(competition)
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