THE RETURN
POLISH TITLE: POWRÓT
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Ania comes out of prison on her first thirty-hour leave. At home, her husband and toddler son are waiting for her arrival. Everything is prepared - the whole family is to leave the country during Ania's time out of prison. Before the escape, she decides to once again meet the family of the person that she killed.
- GENRE:
- fiction
- COUNTRY:
- Poland
- RUNNING TIME:
- 21'
- YEAR:
- 2016
- DIRECTING:
- Damian Kocur
- SCRIPT:
- Damian Kocur, Yulia Yukhymets
- DOP:
- Kacper Sędzielewski
- EDITOR:
- Sebastian Mialik
- PRODUCTION:
- Wydział Radia i Telewizji Uniwersytetu Śląskiego w Katowicach (WRiTv UŚ)
Damian Kocur »
Director and cinematographer. A graduate of the Krzysztof Kieślowski Film School in Katowice and a PhD student at the Film School in Łódź. He is the author of the internationally awarded feature debut "Bread and Salt" (awarded, among others, at festivals in Venice, Cairo, Cottbus, Antalya, Gijon, Bratislava and Gdynia) and several shorts. As a filmmaker, he keeps track of the credibility of emotions on the screen, and considers the authenticity of the characters and their stories to be his most important goal.
AT FESTIVALS:
- 32nd Warsaw Film Festival, Poland, 2016 (screening)
- 18th New Horizons Film Festival, Poland, 2017 (screening)
- 18th International Izmir Short Film Festival, Turkey, 2017 (screening)
- 56th Krakow Film Festival, Poland, 2016 (competition)
- 24th International Film Festival Camerimage, Poland, 2016 (competition)
- 25th The International Student Film Festival, Israel, 2017 (competition)
- Euganea Film Festival, Italy , 2017 (Premio Miglior Cortometraggio Internazionale)
- First Step Film Fest, Albania, 2017 (competition)
- The International Film Festival "Autumn in Voronet", Romania, 2017 (competition)
- Córtex Film Festival 2018, Portugal, 2018 (competition)
- Leiden Internatonal Short Film Experience, The Netherlands, 2018 (competition)