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POLISH TITLE: TAMTEJ NOCY
Zuza is an art curator and a mother of a preschool daughter. One night she sees a teenager being beaten up by two men and she comes to his defense. When the police arrive at the scene it’s Zuza who gets arrested.
- GENRE:
- fiction
- COUNTRY:
- Poland
- RUNNING TIME:
- 24'
- YEAR:
- 2018
- DIRECTING:
- Pat Howl Kostyszyn
- SCRIPT:
- Pat Howl Kostyszyn
- DOP:
- Bartosz Świniarski
- EDITOR:
- Łukasz Szwarc-Bronikowski
- MUSIC:
- Hania Rani
- PRODUCTION:
- Kidd Pictures
Pat Howl Kostyszyn »
Spent his childhood constructing yachts at a Turkish beach. After coming back to Poland for twelve years he ran a technology company. Graduated from SWPS University with a degree in social psychology and University of California, Los Angeles School of Theater, Film and Television where he studied film directing and production. Director and screenwriter of short films („Go Fish!”, 2015) and music videos.
AT FESTIVALS:
- Corti da Sogni Antonio Ricci International Short Film Festival, Italy, 2018 (competition)
- OpenEyes Filmfestival, Germany, 2018 (Audience Award for the Best Fiction Film)
- Open-Air Filmfest Weiterstadt, Germany, 2018 (competition)
- Fer Film Festival, Kosovo, 2018 (competition)
- 5th Sose International Film Festival, Armenia, 2018 (competition)
- Vasteras Filmfestival, Sweden, 2018 (competition)
- Un festival c’est trop court, France, 2018 (Student Jury Award)
- Kaoshiung Film Festival,Taiwan, 2018 (competition)
- Konstanzer kurz.film.spiele, Germany, 2018 (competition)
- ALTER-NATIVE International Short Film Festival, Romania, 2018 (competition)
- 48th ALCINE - Festival de Cine de Alcalá de Henares, Spain, 2018 (Audience Award)
- Kontrast Film Festival, Germany, 2019 (competition)