SPITSBERGEN
REPRESENTED BY KFF
After a seven-month suspension from duty, Magda (33), a paramedic, goes straight back to work. In no time at all, conflict arises between her and the young, restrictive leader of the ambulance crew. Meanwhile, traumatic recollections are haunting her.
- GENRE:
- fiction
- COUNTRY:
- POLAND
- RUNNING TIME:
- 23'
- YEAR:
- 2017
- DIRECTING:
- Michał Szcześniak
- SCRIPT:
- Michał Szcześniak, Monika Sirojc
- DOP:
- Bartosz Piotrowski
- EDITOR:
- Monika Sirojc
- PRODUCTION:
- Stowarzyszenie Filmowców Polskich - Studio Munka
Michał Szcześniak »
director and screenwriter. In 2005, he won the best European screenplay award – NISIMASA European Script Contest. The film he directed, based on the script awarded by NISIMASA, “A Boat”, received an many awards in Poland and abroad and was screened at over 30 festivals. Szcześniak is the author of many screenplays such as “Goliath”, “The Dark Side Of The Light” and “The Captain” to name just a few. Szcześniak was also a columnist for o few Polish magazines. From 2010 he has been participating in the documentary course at Wajda School.
AT FESTIVALS:
- 33rd Warsaw Film Festival, Poland, 2017 (screening)
- XV International Festival-Workshop of Film Schools Kinoproba, Russia, 2018 (screening)
- 57. Krakow Film Festival, Poland, 2017 (competition)
- Febiofest, Slovakia, 2018 (competition)
- The March Festival - 65th Belgrad Documentary and Short FF, Serbia, 2018 (competition)
- 59th Brno 16 International Short Film Festival, Czech Republic, 2018 (competition)
- Kazan International Youth Film Festival 2019, Russia, 2019 (competition)