BOYS WITH BUTTERFLIES
POLISH TITLE: CHŁOPCY Z MOTYLKAMI
REPRESENTED BY KFF
15-year-old Filip gets beaten up on a footbridge close to his neighbourhood. To retaliate, his father rents a billboard in the middle of the housing estate with the information about a reward for helping to find the thugs. He starts a local war, which Filip does not want to be
part of. A simple coming-of-age story inspired by true events from the reportage „Boys with Butterflies” by Jacek Hugo-Bader.
- GENRE:
- fiction
- COUNTRY:
- Poland
- RUNNING TIME:
- 28'
- YEAR:
- 2018
- DIRECTING:
- Marcin Filipowicz
- SCRIPT:
- Marcin Filipowicz
- DOP:
- Mateusz Skalski
- EDITOR:
- Magdalena Chowańska
- PRODUCTION:
- Studio Munka
Marcin Filipowicz »
Born in 1985. Since 2007 he has been studying Film Directing at the Radio and Television Faculty of Silesia University in Katowice. He combines film studies with his other passions – travelling and photography. He has received numerous awards at national film festivals for 7109 km, a film about a young boy’s journey from Poland to Irkutsk (2008).
AT FESTIVALS:
- 21st Ismailia Film Festival 2019, Egypt, 2019 (screening)
- 34th Warsaw Film Festival, Poland, 2018 (Special Mention)
- 18th DokuFest International Documentary and Short Film Festival, Kosovo, 2019 (competition)
- Copenhagen Short Film Festival 2019, Denmark, 2019 (competition)
- "One Shot" 18th International Short Film Festival 2020, Armenia, 2020 (competition)