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HANOI-WARSAW

POLISH TITLE: HANOI-WARSZAWA

A young Vietnamese girl comes to Poland through the green border. She has to get to Warsaw where her fiancé and a better life are waiting for her… A journey through Poland is the hell of humiliation and violence. The girl escapes her brutal carriers and penniless, not knowing the language she tries to get to Warsaw. Yet her fiancé is locked up in a deportation arrest. Lonely and desperate, Ahn has to decide – to report herself to the police and risk the deportation or to fight for survival…

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GENRE:
fiction
COUNTRYI:
Polska
RUNNING TIME:
28'
YEAR:
DIRECTING:
Katarzyna Klimkiewicz
SCRIPT:
Katarzyna Klimkiewicz
PRODUCER:
Kino Polska TV

Katarzyna Klimkiewicz »

Katarzyna is a graduate from the Polish Film School in Lodz and alumni of the Binger Film Lab in Amsterdam. Her documentary Wasserschlacht – The Great Border Battle co-directed with Andrew Friedman was awarded Berlin Today Award during Berlinale 2007. Her short film Hanoi-Warszawa won many Polish and International awards and was voted the Best Short of 2010 by the European Film Academy. Her debut feature film Flying Blind premiered in Edinburgh International Film Festival in 2012 where it has been nominated for the prestigious Michael Powell Award. The film received three Awards (Grand Prix, Best Director, Critics Award) at the Polish Festival of First Films in Koszalin and was released cinematically in the UK and in Poland in 2013. She is a member of the European Film Academy, for many years she was also a president of Film 1,2 Association, which supports young filmmakers in Poland.fot. Jarosław Pietrzak
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