MY POOR HEAD
POLISH TITLE: MOJA BIEDNA GŁOWA
REPRESENTED BY KFF
After the death of his wife, the father of 16-year-old Wojtek, succumbs to a nervous breakdown and loses touch with reality. The school authorities where Wojtek is a student already know about this problem. If Wojtek’s father doesn’t prove he is able to look after his son, Wojtek will be taken to an orphanage. Wojtek is left with a few hours to master the situation and overcome the problem. The film is based on the short story 'ON' [He] by Joanna Łabuz and corresponds to the fourth Commandment: 'Honour your father and your mother'.
FILM REPRESENTED BY THE KRAKOW FILM FOUNDATION
- GENRE:
- fiction
- COUNTRY:
- Polska
- RUNNING TIME:
- 21'
- YEAR:
- 2009
- DIRECTING:
- Adrian Panek
- SCRIPT:
- Adrian Panek
- EDITOR:
- Marcin Konarzewski
- CAST:
- Mariusz Bonaszewski, Adrianna Biedrzyńska, Krzysztof Chodorowski
- MUSIC:
- Tomasz Stroynowski
- PRODUCTION:
- Instytut Promocji Edukacji
Adrian Panek »
Born in 1975; scriptwriter and director; a graduate of University of Silesia Krzysztof Kieślowski Radio and Television Department in Katowice and a film course at Andrzej Wajda Master School of Film Directing; lives in Warsaw. The author of a short film 'Męczeństwo Mariana' [Marian’s Martyrdom] made within the first edition of the programme '30 minutes'.
AT FESTIVALS:
- 22st Istanbul International Short Film Festival, Turkey, 2010 (screening)
- Arcipelago International Festival of Short Films and New Images, Italy, 2012 (screening)
- 10th Tabor Film Festival, Croatia, 2012 (screening)
- Ismailia International Festival for Documentary & Short Films, Egypt, 2010 (competition)
- B16 - International Competitive Festival Of Short Fiction Films, Czech Republic, 2010 (competition)
- 25th Brest European Short Film Festival, France, 2010 (competition)
- Brussels Short Film Festival, Belgium, 2011 (competition)