THE STREETLIGHT MAN
POLISH TITLE: LATARNIK
REPRESENTED BY KFF
A short story about a man who sits on a street lamp. A couple of friends returning home at dawn by spot the man. No force or arguments can bring him down. It’s a metaphor of human relations, intolerance, aggression and lack of comprehension.
FILM REPRESENTED BY THE KRAKOW FILM FOUNDATION
- GENRE:
- fiction
- COUNTRY:
- Polska
- RUNNING TIME:
- 13'
- YEAR:
- 2007
- DIRECTING:
- Mateusz Rakowicz
- SCRIPT:
- Mateusz Rakowicz, Paweł Zarzycki
- DOP:
- Artur Sienicki
- EDITOR:
- Krzysztof Paluchowski
- CAST:
- Dariusz Basiński, Marek Kondrat, Radek Rożniecki, Kuba Wieczorek, Marek Żerański
- MUSIC:
- Jarosław Januszewicz
- PRODUCTION:
- Mateusz Rakowicz
Mateusz Rakowicz »
Graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw and Andrzej Wajda’s School of Film Directing. Directed short films, including the „Streetlight Man”, for which he received several awards. Mateusz directed also commercials and video clips. Co-directed feature film "Warsaw Stories". In November 2015 he shot in Paris a short feature film "Romantik", a Polish-French coproduction. Currently working on a new feature and TV War movie.
AT FESTIVALS:
- 12th Ismalia International Festival For Documentary & Short Films, Egypt, 2008 (screening)
- Encounters Short Film Festival in Bristol, UK, 2008 (screening)
- B16, Brno, Czech Republic, 2007 (competition)
- MedFilm Festival, Roma, Italy, 2007 (competition)
- 24th European Film Festival of Lille, France, 2008 (competition)
- Naoussa International Short Film and Video Festival, Greece, 2008 (competition)
- Festival International de Filmets, Badalona, Barcelona, Spain, 2008 (competition)