DANCING FOR YOU
POLISH TITLE: TAŃCZĘ DLA CIEBIE
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Twelve-year-old Wiktor is a pupil at a renowned ballet school. He’s preparing for an event of enormous importance in school life; the ‘promo show’, which decides whether or not he’ll be ‘promoted’ and move up to the next grade. All the teachers and all the pupil’s parents take part in the occasion. His grandmother is his companion as he practices for the performance, but his dream is that his father, who lives abroad, will come to the show.
- GENRE:
- documentary
- COUNTRY:
- Poland
- RUNNING TIME:
- 18'
- YEAR:
- 2018
- DIRECTING:
- Katarzyna Lesisz
- SCRIPT:
- Katarzyna Lesisz
- DOP:
- Michał Dymek, Sebastian Weber
- PRODUCTION:
- Studio Munka
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:
- IceDocs, Iceland, 2019 (screening)
- Kinderdocs,Greece, 2019 (screening)
- 33rd Helsinki International Film Festival, Finland, 2020 (screening)
- 17th Vilnius Documentary Film Festival, Lithuania, 2020 (screening)
- 34th Warsaw Film Festival, Poland, 2018 (competition)
- IDFA, The Netherlands, 2018 (Best Children’s Documentary in the Kids & Docs Competition)
- Festival International de Films de Femmes de Créteil, France, 2019 (competition)
- XVIII Euganea Film Festival, Italy, 2019 (Special Mention)
- XXXIII Pärnu Film Festival in Pärnu, Estonia, 2019 (competition)
- EBS International Documentary FF, South Korea, 2019 (competition)
- MakeDox, Macedonia, 2019 (competition)
- FIKE Évora International Short-Film Festival, Portugal , 2019 (competition)
- Quebec City Film Festival 2019, Canada, 2019 (competition)
- DMZ Docs, Korea, 2019 (competition)
- 12th Central and Eastern European Film Festival CinEast, Luxembourg, 2019 (Audience Award For The Best Short Documentary Film)
- 28th dokumentART – films & future, Germany, 2019 (competition)
- PÖFF Shorts, Estonia, 2019 (competition)
- Budapest International Documentary Festival 2020, Hungary, 2020 (competition)