"SUPER UNIT" SHORTLISTED FOR THE CINEMA EYE HONORS AWARD

On 17 September, the list of ten films competing for the Cinema Eye Honors awards in the Outstanding Achievement in Nonfiction Short Filmmaking category was announced. Among the shortlisted films, there is also the award-winning documentary film by Teresa Czepiec, "Super Unit".

Cinema Eye Honors awards have been given to the best documentary films since 2008. For a film to be nominated for the award, it must be shown at any on the following film festivals: Sundance, Berlin, True/False, SXSW, Full Frame, Tribeca, Hot Docs, Cannes, Silverdocs, Los Angeles, Toronto, Sheffield and IDFA.  Candidates for Cinema Eye Honors awards are selected by the representatives of large documentary film festivals, and the winners are chosen every year by about 200 representatives of documentary film industry, invited to vote by Cinema Eye.

Ten shortlistees, among them "Super Unit" by Teresa Czepiec, were announced at the opening ceremony of the Camden Film Festival. However, five films from this list will be shown at the festival CPH:DOX; these films will be nominated for the Cinema Eye Honors award. The award ceremony will be held on January 13 in New York.

Super Unit is a huge block of flats designed  as "machine for living."  On 15 floors of the building, up to 13 thousand people can live. The lift stops every third floor, so the inhabitants have to go through a real labyrinth of corridors and stairs to reach their flats. The main protagonists of the film are the people living inside the Super Unit and experiencing important moments of their lives there. Here, their emotions pulsate, expectations are born and dreams come true ... or not.

762 apartment doors and 762 stories. We open only some of them.