SASHKA
POLISH TITLE: SASZKA
In the 1990s, in a small Polish town, a young Ukrainian named Saszka gets a message about the death of the man with whom she entered into a sham marriage a long time ago. When the police start asking uncomfortable questions, the memories and faces from the past return to her. With great attention to visual details, including realistic photographs and sets, the film tells the story of finding one’s own way and making a definite closing of some chapters of one’s life.
- GENRE:
- fiction
- RUNNING TIME:
- 26'
- YEAR:
- 2018
- DIRECTING:
- Katarzyna Lesisz
- SCRIPT:
- Justyna Bilik
- DOP:
- Michał Dymek
- EDITOR:
- Cecylia Pacura
- MUSIC:
- Dominik Buczkowski
- SOUND:
- Rafał Nowak
- PRODUCTION:
- PWSFTviT (Państwowa Wyższa Szkoła Filmowa, Telewizyjna i Teatralna)
Katarzyna Lesisz »
Katarzyna Lesisz is a graduate of the renowned Film School in Lodz, Poland. Her short documentary "Dancing for you" (2018) has won the main prize at IDFA for Best Children’s Documentary in the Kids & Doc section. "Sashka" her recent short fiction has won Grand Prix at the Ca 'Foscari Short Film Festival in Venice, Małopolska Film Award at the Gdynia Film Festival. Her credits as director include "My Brother's Life", "A New Tomorrow" and "Our little game" which was screened at numerous foreign and national festivals.
AT FESTIVALS:
- 58th Krakow Film Festival, Poland, 2018 (screening)
- Ca' Foscari Short Film Festival 2019, Italy, 2019 (competition)
- Class Fest International Festival of Theater Schools, Moldova, 2019 (competition)