THE STONE
POLISH TITLE: KAMIEŃ
REPRESENTED BY KFF
A nun who uses a wheelchair touches a common-or-garden stone in a park and is cured. In the archbishop’s eyes, the stone is far too secular an object for the Vatican to recognise the event as a miracle. The nun’s Mother Superior uses a bluff to save the day, convincing the archbishop to pass the matter to higher echelon by telling him that Saint Andrzej Bobola appeared to her and affirmed the stone’s divine origins. As bad luck would have it, the Chief Rabbi of Poland, who uses crutches, sits down on the same stone. He, too, is miraculously cured. The priests are left in no doubt. They either have a shared miracle or no miracle at all.
- GENRE:
- fiction
- COUNTRY:
- Poland
- RUNNING TIME:
- 25'
- YEAR:
- 2020
- COLOUR:
- colour
- DIRECTING:
- Bartosz Kozera
- SCRIPT:
- Bartosz Kozera
- DOP:
- Tomasz Gajewski
- EDITOR:
- Magdalena Chowańska
- CAST:
- Katarzyna Herman, Irena Melcer, Andrzej Dębski, Andrzej Walden, Krzysztof Materna
- SOUND:
- Piotr Kwieciński, Jakub Jaworski
- PRODUCTION:
- Studio Munka, MX35, Coloroffon, Halo Productions, No Drama Production, TVN Film
Bartosz Kozera »
Screenwriter and director. He is the winner of the TVN comedy feature screenplay competition (2014), the recipient of the first prize in Papaya Young Directors (2016) and the second prize in the 3rd National Competition for a Small Dramatic Form (2016) as well as a finalist of the 6th Script Fiesta (2017). He has sold two feature-length screenplays and written for broadcast series. He enjoys the sad satire of Iggy Pop and does not like working in commerce.
AT FESTIVALS:
- 36th Warsaw Film Festival, Poland, 2020 (screening)
- 24th Mecal Pro Barcelona International Short and Animation Festival, Spain, 2022 (screening)
- 60th Krakow Film Festival, 2020, Poland, 2020 (competition)
- 18th BOGOSHORTS Bogotá Short Film Festival, Columbia, 2020 (competition)
- JEONJU International Film Festival, 2021, South Korea, 2021 (Grand Prix)
- 22nd Festival International du Film d’Aubagne - Music & Cinema, France, 2021 (competition)
- 39th International Short Film Festival Tous Courts of Aix-en-Provence, France, 2021 (competition)
- Tetova International Film Festival ODA, Macedonia, 2022 (competition)
- Beast International Film Festival, Portugal, 2022 (competition)
- Marrakech Short Film Festival, Marocco, 2022 (Best International Film)