WHERE THE SUN DOESN’T RUSH
POLISH TITLE: TAM, GDZIE SŁOŃCE SIĘ NIE SPIESZY
REPRESENTED BY KFF
This study, full of black humour, was made by a Łódź Film School student and presents a documentary portrait of a Slovak village – a dying world revived largely by funerals.
FILM REPRESENTED BY THE KRAKOW FILM FOUNDATION
- GENRE:
- documentary
- RUNNING TIME:
- 18'
- YEAR:
- 2009
- DIRECTING:
- Matej Bobrik
- SCRIPT:
- Matej Bobrik
- DOP:
- Artur Sienicki
- EDITOR:
- Barbara Snarska
- PRODUCTION:
- PAŃSTWOWA WYŻSZA SZKOŁA FILMOWA, TELEWIZYJNA I TEATRALNA, ANDRZEJ BEDNAREK
Matej Bobrik »
Film director and writer from Slovakia, born in Prague in 1982. He graduated from the Polish National Film School in Łódź. His student film “Where the Sun Doesn’t Rush” (2009) was shown at international film festivals such as the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam, DOK Leipzig and Visions du Réel in Nyon. His debut film “The Visit” (2013) had its premiere at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam and won the Silver Eye award at the Jihlava festival. He has participated in the DOK Pro documentary course at the Wajda Studio. He currently lives in Warsaw. “Our Little Poland” is his first feature-length documentary.
AT FESTIVALS:
- 22nd International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA), 2009 (screening)
- ZagrebDox International Festival of Documentary Films, Croatia, 2010 (screening)
- Documentarist, Turkey, 2010 (screening)
- Message to Man International Film Festival, St Petersburg, Russia, 2010 (screening)
- X International Documentary Film Festival FLAHERTIANA, Russia, 2010 (screening)
- ALCINE - Festival de Cine de Alcalá de Henares / Comunidad de Madrid, 2010 (screening)
- London International Documentary Festival (LIDF), UK, 2011 (screening)
- DocsDF 2012, Mexico, 2012 (screening)
- Minsk Open Student Film & Video Festival Kinogran, Belarus, 2009 (Best Documentary Film)
- Documenta Madrid 09, Spain, 2009 (competition)
- Open St. Petersburg Student Film Festival “Beginning”, Russia, 2009 (Grand Prix)
- DOK Leipzig, Germany, 2009 (competition)
- Alcine 39 Festival de Cine de Alcalá de Henares/Comunidad de Madrid, 2009 (competition)
- 33rd Margaret Mead Film & Video Festival, New York, 2009 (competition)
- Next Reel International Film Festival, Singapore, 2010 (competition)
- 12th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival – Images of the 21st Century, Greece, 2010 (competition)
- 6th New York Polish Film Festival, USA, 2010 (“Beyond Borders” Award for Best Documentary)
- DOXA Documentary Film Festival, Canada, 2010 (competition)
- Huesca International Film Festival, Spain, 2010 (competition)
- Expresion en Corto, Mexico, 2010 (competition)
- Brazilian Student Film Festival, 2010 (Award for Narrative Construction)
- International Film Festival of Documentaries on Ethnology and Anthropology ETNOFILM ČADCA, Slovakia, 2010 (competition)
- DOCSDF, Mexico, 2010 (competition)
- Cortopotere ShortFilmFestival, Italy, 2010 (the Best Documentary Film)
- "Cinema Verite" Iran International Documentary Film Festival, 2010 (competition)
- goEast Film Festival, Germany, 2011 (competition)