THE BARBICAN
POLISH TITLE: BARBAKAN
After a long period of work in Germany – Emil, a young man, comes back to his girlfriend living in Poland so that they can enjoy their life together. His long journey home brings a number of sad and unexpected incidents. The story is based on a real life events.
FILM REPRESENTED BY THE KRAKOW FILM FOUNDATION
- GENRE:
- fiction
- RUNNING TIME:
- 22'
- YEAR:
- 2011
- DIRECTING:
- Bartłomiej Żmuda
- SCRIPT:
- Łukasz Ludkowski, Bartłomiej Żmuda
- DOP:
- Ernest Wilczyński
- EDITOR:
- Weronika Bławut
- PRODUCTION:
- PWSFTviT (Państwowa Wyższa Szkoła Filmowa, Telewizyjna i Teatralna)
Bartłomiej Żmuda »
Born in 1981 in Nysa, Poland. A graduate from The National Film School in Lodz.He has won multiple awards for his student fiction movie “The Barbican”, including Grand Prix in Teheran, Grand Prix in Bucharest, Best European Talent Award during “Interfilm” film festival in Berlin, Audience Award during Rio de Janeiro “Curta Cinema” and more. His short documentary „Five Days of Fear” has been officially selected by The New York Times for the award-winning series Op-Docs 2022. For his feature documentary he has won M. Szumowski Award during 62nd Krakow Film Festival and Journalists’ Award during 41st Koszalin Debut Film Festival 2022.
- Open St. Petersburg Student Film Festival 'Beginning', Russia, 2011 (screening)
- 20th Curtas Vila do Conde Short Film Festival, Portugal, 2012 (screening)
- Aye Aye Film Festival Nancy, France, 2012 (screening)
- Reikäreuna Film Festival, Finland, 2012 (screening)
- Play Poland Film Festival, travelling, 2012 (screening)
- 28th Warsaw Film Festival, Poland, 2012 (screening)
- Corona Fastnet Short Film Festival, Ireland, 2013 (screening)
- PLUS CAMERIMAGE 2010 - International Film Festival Of The Art Of Cinematography, Poland, 2010 (competition)
- Sao Paulo International Short Film Festival, Brazil, 2011 (competition)
- 28th Tehran Short Film Festival, Iran, 2011 (competition)
- 16th Ourense International Film Festival, Spain, 2011 (competition)
- International Short Film Festival La Boca del Lobo, Spain, 2011 (competition)
- Curta Cinema 2011 - Rio de Janeiro International Short Film Festival, Brazylia, 2011 (competition)
- 10th Beijing Film Academy International Student Film&Video Festival, 2011 (competition)
- interfilm 27th Shortfilm Festival Berlin, Germany, 2011 (competition)
- SkenaUp Festival, Kosovo, 2011 (competition)
- Festival Tous Courts, Aix-en-Provence, France, 2011 (competition)
- 2012 International Film and Music Festival Küsrendorf, Serbia, 2012 (Critic's Choice Award)
- 23rd Trieste Film Festival, Italy, 2012 (competition)
- Flicks Fest International Film Festival, The Netherlands, 2012 (competition)
- Global Chinese Student Film Festival, Hong Kong, 2012 (competition)
- International Short Film Festival 2ANNAS, Latvia, 2012 (competition)
- Palm Springs International Shortfest, USA, 2012 (competition)
- Cinemaiubit Student Film Festival, Romania, 2012 (Best Short Film, Best Actor)