MERCY
POLISH TITLE: ŁASKA
REPRESENTED BY KFF
Veronica and her daughter arrive in a small town. Veronica has a plan but first she needs to ask someone for help – someone she hasn't seen for a while. This person is Thomas, a priest in a local church. Their meeting however will take an unexpected turn.
FILM REPRESENTED BY KRAKOW FILM FOUNDATION
- GENRE:
- fiction
- COUNTRY:
- POLAND
- RUNNING TIME:
- 18'
- YEAR:
- 2011
- DIRECTING:
- Eliza Subotowicz
- SCRIPT:
- Eliza Subotowicz
- DOP:
- Monika Lenczawska
- EDITOR:
- Agnieszka Glińska
- CAST:
- Maria Czykwin, Łukasz Simlat, Emilia Mikołajczyk, Maria Mamona, Sławomir Gwizdak
- PRODUCTION:
- Stowarzyszenie Filmowców Polskich - Studio Munka , TOFI Productions
Eliza Subotowicz »
Director and screenwriter. She graduated from the Institute of English at the University of Warsaw, where between 1999-2004 she studied at the Interfaculty Individual Studies in the Humanities. She completed a two-year humanities diploma at the European College of Liberal Arts in Berlin. She studied directing at the film school of the Columbia University in New York. She has made several short films. Her diploma film "Ben" has won a prize awarded in 2009 by the Directors Guild of America.
AT FESTIVALS:
- Seattle Polish Film Festival, 2012 (screening)
- Film Festival Cottbus 2012, Germany, 2012 (screening)
- 21st Curtas Vila do Conde Film Festival, 2013 (screening)
- 29th Warsaw Film Festival, Poland, 2013 (screening)
- Different ages, different voices: Polish Women in Film, USA, 2013 (screening)
- The 35th Norwegian Short Film Festival Grimstad, Norway, 2012 (competition)
- Palm Springs International Shortfest, USA, 2012 (competition)
- T-Mobile New Horizons International Film Festival 2012, Poland, 2012 (competition)
- Open Cinema Film Festival, Russia, 2012 (competition)
- Melbourne Film Festival, Australia, 2012 (competition)
- HollyShorts Film Festival, USA, 2012 (competition)
- Raindance Film Festival, UK, 2012 (competition)
- Lofoten Film Festival, Norway, 2013 (competition)
- 41st Huesca International Film Festival, Spain, 2013 (competition)
- 34th Durban International Film Festival, South Africa, 2013 (Best Short Film Award)
- L'Aquila Film Festival, Italy, 2013 (competition)