MOTHER
POLISH TITLE: MATKA
The film is inspired by true events which took place at the turn of 1943/1944 in the town of Legionowo, near Warsaw.
Nazi German officers: Spiller (Marek Włodarczyk), Rode (Łukasz Matecki) and Klingemann (Jarosław Domin) decide to seize a house where the Pelka family of four live. The four members of the family are Otylia (Dorota Kuduk), Czesław (Jakub Kotyński) and two little daughters called Terenia (Zuzanna Nowocień) and Jania (Martyna Fabijańska). From that moment on the life of the Pelka family starts hanging by a thread.
- GENRE:
- fiction
- RUNNING TIME:
- 28'
- YEAR:
- 2016
- COLOUR:
- black and white
- DIRECTING:
- Piotr P.Gołębiowski
- SCRIPT:
- Piotr P.Gołębiowski
- DOP:
- Michał Gościk
- EDITOR:
- Wojciech Anuszczyk
- SOUND:
- Łukasz Stanisławski, Adam Stanisławski
- PRODUCTION:
- W Productions (Board Advisors sp. z o.o.)
Piotr P.Gołębiowski »
In 2014, Piotr P. Gołębiowski participated in the Development Lab (feature film programme, film directing course) at Wajda School (formerly the Master School of Film Directing by Andrzej Wajda). “Mother” is his debut film. He is currently working (development stage) on his full length feature thriller “Advocate”. Piotr is an advocate and member of the Warsaw Bar Council. He graduated from the Faculty of Law and Administration and Faculty of Journalism and Political Sciences at Warsaw University. He also studied at the Center for American Law Studies by the University of Florida Levin College of Law and completed a postgraduate course in capital markets at Warsaw University.
AT FESTIVALS:
- 5th Ploiesti International Film Festival, Romania, 2016 (screening)
- LET’S CEE Film Festival, Austria, 2017 (screening)
- Caminhos Film Festival, Portugal, 2017 (screening)
- 10th River Film Festival, Italy, 2016 (competition)
- 2nd Ramunas Atelier International Independent Film Awards, Lithuania, 2016 (Best Short Narrative)
- 11th Batumi International Art-House Film Festival, Georgia, 2016 (competition)
- 9th Tangier International Film Festival, Morocco, 2016 (competition)
- 3rd Sose International Film Festival, Armenia, 2016 (competition)
- 2nd Västerås Film Festival, Sweden, 2016 (Best Actor)
- 5th International Tour Film Festival, Italy, 2016 (competition)
- 5th Tetova ODA International Film Festival, Macedonia, 2016 (competition)
- 13. HollyShorts Film Festival, USA, 2017 (competition)
- Monmouth Film Festival, USA, 2017 (Best Foreign Short Film)
- Sofia Independent Film Festival, Bulgaria, 2017 (competition)
- Aesthetica Short Film Festival 2017, The United Kingdom, 2017 (competition)
- Canada Shorts Film Festival, Canada, 2017 (Award of Distinction)
- 10th Jaipur International Film Festival, India, 2018 (competition)
- 3rd Festival Internacional de Cine de Bayamón, USA, 2018 (competition)
- Victoria Film Festival, Canada, 2018 (competition)