A LONG TIME AGO IN SILESIA
POLISH TITLE: DAWNO TEMU NA ŚLĄSKU
Twin brothers, Rysiek and Stefan live in an orphanage run by nuns. The orphanage is situated in a small Silesian town, where the Poles and the Germans live next to one another. The boys are
unlucky to grow up in one of the worst periods in the history of the place - during the Third Reich. They will soon be parted only to meet again in extremely unpleasant circumstances a dozen or so
years later.
- GENRE:
- fiction
- COUNTRY:
- POLAND
- RUNNING TIME:
- 16'
- YEAR:
- 2015
- DIRECTING:
- Tomasz Protokowicz
- SCRIPT:
- Tomasz Protokowicz
- DOP:
- Joanna Sobieśniewska
- EDITOR:
- Honorata Szulakowska
- CAST:
- Marcin Zacharzewski, Maciej Zacharzewski, Szymon Dziedzic, Tomasz Dziedzic, Dawid Pokusa, Martyna Witowska, Teresa Sawicka
- MUSIC:
- Paweł Stolarczyk
- PRODUCTION:
- Wrocławska Szkoła Filmowa Mastershot
Tomasz Protokowicz »
Born in 1975 in Poland. For 10 years he worked as areporter and broadcaster. Graduate Film School Mastershot Wroclaw, where since 2010 he studied film directing. Participated in the program in a scenario SCRIPT Wajda School. „A long time ago in Silesia” is his directorial debut.
AT FESTIVALS:
- 11th Asto Short Film Festival, Greece, 2016 (screening)
- 9th River Film Festival, Italy, 2015 (competition)
- 15th T-Mobile New Horizons IFF, Poland, 2015 (competition)
- Alpinale Short Film Festival 2015, Austria, 2015 (competition)
- 5th Farcume International Short Film Festival, Portugal, 2015 (competition)
- 4th Peace and Love Film Festival, Sweden, 2015 (competition)
- 21th International Short Film Festival in Drama, Greece, 2015 (competition)
- 4th Tetova International Film Festival Oda, Macedonia, 2015 (competition)
- 15th International Student Film Festival Pisek, Czech Republic , 2015 (competition)
- 8th Northern Wave International Film Festival, Iceland, 2015 (competition)
- 22nd Ann Arbor Polish Film Festival, USA, 2015 (The Best Debut)
- 16th International Izmir Short Film Festival, Turkey, 2015 (Best International Short Fiction)
- International Bosphorus FF 2015, Turkey, 2015 (competition)
- 1st Filmmaker International Film Festival 2015, Spain, 2015 (competition)
- 5th Pune Short Film Festival, India, 2015 (competition)
- 13th Frames Film Festival, India, 2016 (competition)
- 3rd Chennai International Short Film Festival, India, 2016 (competition)
- 4th Tally Shorts Film Festival, USA, 2016 (competition)
- 17th International Short Film Festival Bunter Hund, Germany, 2016 (competition)
- Transilvania Shorts International Short Film Festival, Romania, 2016 (competition)
- 4th Silk Road Film Festival, Ireland, 2016 (competition)
- 8th Rotary Short Film Festival ROFIFE 2016, Turkey, 2016 (Best Short Feature)
- Festival del Cinema GRR, Italy, 2016 (competition)
- Pennine Film Festival, The United Kingdom, 2016 (Best Student Film)
- 13th Neisse Film Festival, Germany, 2016 (Bester Kurzfilm)
- 44th Festival of Nations, Austria, 2016 (competition)
- 4th New York Eurasian Film Festival, USA, 2016 (competition)
- SEE Film Festival Ningbo, China, 2016 (competition)
- CayFilm Cayman International Film Festival, Cayman Islands, 2016 (competition)
- Phoenix Film Festival Melbourne, Australia, 2016 (competition)
- Visioni Corte Film Festival, Italy, 2016 (competition)
- Motovun Film Festival, Croatia, 2016 (competition)
- 1st Selby International Short Film Festival 2016, United Kingdom, 2016 (competition)
- Ariano International Film Festiwal, Italy, 2016 (Best School Film)
- 10th Trinity International Film Festival, USA, 2016 (competition)
- Nida Short Film Festival, Lithuania, 2016 (competition)
- 3th Bridge Film Fest, Kosovo, 2016 (competition)
- 3rd Riurau Film Festival, Spain, 2016 (Mejor Dirección Artística)
- REFLECTA - Rethink Your World Film Festival, Germany, 2016 (competition)
- 3rd Goa Short Film Festival, India, 2016 (competition)
- 3rd Art City Short Film Festival, Cameroon, 2016 (competition)
- 17th Kerry Film Festival, Irleand, 2016 (competition)
- Fisheye Film Festival, United Kingdom, 2016 (competition)
- 14th Tirana International Film Festival, Albania, 2016 (competition)
- Aaretaler Kurzfilmfestival, Switzerland, 2016 (competition)
- 4th CineKasimanwa: Western Visayas Film Festival, Philippines, 2016 (competition)
- 28th Istanbul International Short Film Festival, Turkey, 2016 (competition)
- 7th Green Bay Film Festival, USA, 2017 (competition)
- 7th Oneota Film Festival, USA, 2017 (competition)
- 16th River Bend Film Festival, USA, 2017 (competition)
- 6th Prokuplje Short Film Festival 2017, Serbia, 2017 (competition)
- 6th "International Children's Rights Film Festival", Turkey, 2017 (competition)
- 8th International Film Festival Cinema of the Future Society “A-FestFilm 2017”, Albania, 2017 (competition)
- 11th SCENECS International Debut Film Festival, The Netherlands, 2017 (competition)
- 8th Hyart Film Festival, USA, 2017 (competition)
- 2th Real Time Film Festival, Nigeria, 2017 (competition)
- Link International Film Festival, United Kingdom, 2017 (competition)
AWARDS AT POLISH FESTIVALS:
Festiwal Filmowy "OFFELIADA" 2015 - Nagroda „Rozenkranc” Dyrektora Festiwalu Festiwal Filmowy "OFFELIADA" 2015 - Nagroda „Horacy” przyznawana przez Jury Młodego Widza Międzynarodowy Festiwal Filmów Niezależnych "Publicystyka" 2016 - I nagroda w kategorii polskiego filmu studenckiego Festiwal Kina Niezależnego CK OFF 2016 - Nagroda Publiczności Festiwal Kina Niezależnego CK OFF 2016 - wyróżnienie Jury Festiwal Filmów Emigracyjnych "EMIGRA" 2016 - III Nagroda Jury