LOVED ONES
POLISH TITLE: BLISCY
Olga’s teenage daughter suddenly goes to the hospital. The mother needs to face not only the child’s disease, but also her ex-husband, whom she have not contacted for years. Being together at the hospital – trying to get information about the daughter’s medical condition or playing a family game – reveals difficult emotions and past resentments in the family. As the child’s condition is getting worse, the tension between the ex-partners rises, leading up to the unexpected finale.
- GENRE:
- fiction
- COUNTRY:
- Poland
- RUNNING TIME:
- 14'
- YEAR:
- 2018
- DIRECTING:
- Zofia Kowalewska
- SCRIPT:
- Zofia Kowalewska
- DOP:
- Tomasz Wierzbicki
- EDITOR:
- Zofia Kowalewska
- SOUND:
- Rafał Nowak
- PRODUCTION:
- Państwowa Wyższa Szkoła Filmowa, Telewizyjna i Teatralna
Zofia Kowalewska »
Film director, a diploma year student of Film Direction at The National Film School in Lodz, a graduate of Wajda School Documentary Film Program. Director of "Close Ties" (2016) - a short documentary that has won over 40 awards worldwide, including Silver Dragon at Krakow Film Festival and IDFA Special Jury Award for Student Documentary. Zofia is currently working on her diploma films at the Lodz Film School. "Siskin" is her debut feature documentary.
- AFSAD 3rd International Film Festival, Turkey, 2019 (screening)
- 2nd International Amity Short Film Festival, Turkey, 2019 (screening)
- Lviv International Short Film Festival Wiz-Art 2020, Ukraine, 2020 (screening)
- 34th Warsaw Film Festival, Poland, 2018 (competition)
- 24th Vilnius Film Festival, Lithuania, 2019 (competition)
- 21st Ismailia Film Festival 2019, Egypt, 2019 (competition)
- The Norwegian Short Film Festival 2019, 2019 (competition)
- Palm Springs International ShortFest and Film Market 2019, 2019 (competition)
- 12th Central and Eastern European Film Festival CinEast, Luxembourg, 2019 (competition)
- 33rd Braunschweig International Film Festival, Germany, 2019 (competition)
- Fastnet Film Festival 2020, Irland, 2020 (competition)
- 12th Fastnet Film Festival, Ireland, 2021 (competition)