POLISH DOCUMETARY TRIUMPHS IN CROATIA
„A screening at the Tatry cinema” directed by Igor Chojna, the laureate of the Silver Hobby Horse for the director of the Best Documentary Film at last year’s 50th Krakow Film Festival, turned to be successful at the Croatian festival.
Igor Chojna’s documentary etude was awarded Grand Prix at the recently finished 16th Split Film Festival. The above mentioned award was presented in the short film category.
“A screening at the Tatry cinema” is a story of Dariusz Ambroszczyk, who runs one of the oldest cinemas in Łódź – “Tatry”. Since he is both a boss and the only employee there every day he has to deal with tasks such as selling and checking the tickets and screening the films. Although Dariusz is waiting persistently for the visitors willing to fill out the audience it seems that the viewers have completely forgotten about his cinema, visiting it only from time to time. All of the sudden Dariusz realizes that the cinema that used to incorporate the sense of his life is now falling into oblivion.
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