THE FOUNDATION
POLISH TITLE: FUNDACJA KULTURA
REPRESENTED BY KFF
Piotr Piotrowski works as a handyman for a small, provincial art foundation. He has a regular job, a salary, he is protected by the management. But one day he decides to leave the mundane job at the foundation and start a hairdressing business. I can’t cut hair, he admits.
FILM REPRESENTED BY THE KRAKOW FILM FOUNDATION
- GENRE:
- fiction
- COUNTRY:
- Poland
- RUNNING TIME:
- 30'
- YEAR:
- 2009
- DIRECTING:
- Rafał Kapeliński
- SCRIPT:
- Rafał Kapeliński
- DOP:
- Paweł Dyllus
- EDITOR:
- Maciej Pawliński
- MUSIC:
- Zbigniew Malecki
- PRODUCTION:
- Aurora Film Production
Rafał Kapeliński »
Rafał Kapelinski was born in Torun, Poland. He studied American literature at the Nicholas Copernicus University and trained at the London Film School. He also worked as director of the festival office of the Camerimage film festival. His short films Emily Cries and The Ballad of Piotrowski won many Polish and international awards, including the Best Mid-Length European film at the Brest International Short Film Festival for Emily Cries. Rafael’s feature debut project Up on the Roof was selected for the Cannes Film Festival’s Cinefondation Residence Programme (2009).
AT FESTIVALS:
- 8. Festival Du Cinema De Brive, France, 2011 (screening)
- Arcipelago International Festival of Short Films and New Images, Italy, 2012 (screening)
- 10th Tabor Film Festival, Croatia, 2012 (screening)
- Message to Man International Film Festival, St Petersburg, Russia, 2010 (competition)
- ALCINE - Festival de Cine de Alcalá de Henares / Comunidad de Madrid, 2010 (competition)
- 25th Brest European Short Film Festival, France, 2010 (competition)