A DEAD MARRIAGE
POLISH TITLE: MARTWE MAŁŻEŃSTWO
REPRESENTED BY KFF
Filip works as a professional movie extra and he always plays roles of dead bodies. On the set of a historical film, he meets Lucy, who happens to be also an extra, playing a role of a dead woman. When laying on top of each other during long film making hours a bittersweet relationship develops between them in the unusual circumstances.
- GENRE:
- fiction
- COUNTRY:
- Polska
- RUNNING TIME:
- 18'
- YEAR:
- 2022
- COLOUR:
- colour
- DIRECTING:
- Michał Toczek
- SCRIPT:
- Michał Toczek, Ola Hulbój
- DOP:
- Tomasz Pawlik
- EDITOR:
- Aleksandra Kasprowicz
- CAST:
- Sebastian Stankiewicz, Marta Ścisłowicz
- MUSIC:
- Pimon Lekler
- SOUND:
- Artur Walaszczyk
- PRODUCTION:
- PWSFTviT (Państwowa Wyższa Szkoła Filmowa, Telewizyjna i Teatralna)
Michał Toczek »
Film directing student in the Polish National Film School in Lodz. Director of award-winning short features and documentaries. His documentary debut “Strawberry Boys” was awarded at the Krakow Film Festival (2019), among others. Laureate of the Papaya Young Directors contest - one of the most prestigious competitions for young creators in Poland.
AT FESTIVALS:
- 38th Warsaw Film Festival, Poland, 2022 (screening)
- Leuven International Short Film Festival 2023, Belgium, 2023 (screening)
- 35th Aguilar Film Festival, Spain, 2023 (screening)
- ŠOBLĖ STUDENT FILM FESTIVAL 2024, Lithuania, 2024 (screening)
- Europe in Shorts 2024, United Kigdom, 2024 (screening)
- MAX3MIN Festival 2024, Italy, 2024 (screening)
- 42nd Festival Tous Courts of Aix-en-Provence, France, 2024 (screening)
- 20th Tirana International Film Festival 2022, Albania, 2022 (competition)
- 28th Leuven International Short Film Festival, Belgium, 2022 (competition)
- 10th West Nordic International Film Festival, Norway, 2023 (competition)
- Vilnius International Film Festival Kino Pavasaris, Lithuania, 2023 (competition)
- 14th ONE Country ONE Film International Festival, France, 2023 (competition)
- 40th Busan International Short Film Festival, South Korea, 2023 (competition)
- 26th Brussels Short Film Festival, Belgium, 2023 (competition)
- Rooftop Films, USA, 2023, 2023 (competition)
- 51st Huesca International Film Festival, Spain, 2023 (competition)
- "One Shot" 21th International Short Film Festival, Armenia, 2023 (Special Mention)
- 29th Palm Springs International ShortFest, USA, 2023 (Best Student International Short)
- Tel Aviv International Student Film Festival, Israel, 2023 (competition)
- RojaL Film Festival 2023, Latvia, 2023 (competition)
- 24th Off-Courts Trouville, France, 2023 (competition)
- 6th Elbe Dock International Film Festival, Germany, Czechia, 2023 (competition)
- 15th Batumi International Art-House Film Festival, Georgia, 2023 (Best Short FIlm)
- 18th Trinidad+Tobago Film Festival, Trinidad and Tobago, 2023 (competition)
- Ivano-Frankivsk International Short Film Festival 4:3, Ukraine, 2023 (competition)
- 53rd Nashville Film Festival, USA, 2023 (competition)
- Duluth Superior Film Festival 2023, USA, 2023 (competition)
- 9th International Comedy Film Festival - FUNCINEMA, Argentina, 2023 (competition)
- Tbilisi International Student Film Festival 2023, Georgia, 2023 (Grand Prix)
- 64th International Film Festival BRNO16, Czech Republic, 2023 (Audience Award)
- 2023 Virginia Film Festival (VAFF), USA, 2023 (competition)
- City of Lights Festival 2023, USA, 2023 (competition)
- 8th Bucharest Short Film Festival, Romania, 2023 (Winner of the Best Student Category)
- Zagreb Film Festival 2023, Croatia, 2023 (competition)
- Shorts Not Pants Film Festival 2023, Canada, 2023 (competition)
- 38th Brest European Short Film Festival, France, 2023 (Grand Prix du Festival)
- 41st Festival Tous Courts of Aix-en-Provence, France, 2023 (competition)
- 71st Martovski Film Festival, Serbia, 2024 (competition)
- Ennesimo Film Festival 2024, Italy, 2024 (competition)
- 34th Mediawave International Film and Music Festival, Hungary, 2024 (Special Jury Prize)
- 3rd Le Cri du Court Festival, France, 2024 (competition)
- Fastnet Film Festival 2024, Ireland, 2024 (competition)
- 27th DETOURS EN CINECOURT Festival, France, 2024 (competition)
- 20th Annual SouthSide Film Festival, USA, 2024 (competition)
- Beach Film Festival - Festival of New European Film, Macedonia, 2024, 2024 (competition)
- Courts Circuit 66 2024, France, 2024 (competition)
- Short Film Festival Novigrad 2024, Croatia, 2024 (competition)
- Minikino Film Week 10 - Bali International Short Film Festival, Indonesia, 2024 (competition)
- 23rd Magma – mostra di cinema breve, Italy , 2024 (competition)
- 32nd ALTER-NATIVE International Short Film Festival, Romania, 2024 (The Grand Prize)
- 30th Film Festival Vence - Matin du Court, France, 2024 (competition)