Competition: Independent

We have the pleasure of inviting you to competition screenings within the Żubroffka festival:

Independent

Independent competition part I
December 6th, 2017, 6:30 PM – Camera Cafe, 14/11 Lipowa Street, free entry
December 8th, 2017, 8:30 PM – Forum cinema, 5 Legionowa Street, free entry

Independent competition part II
December 7th, 2017, 7 PM – Camera Cafe, Camera Cafe, 14/11 Lipowa Street, free entry
December 9th, 2017, 5 PM – Forum Cinema, 5 Legionowa Street, free entry

Independent competition part I
December 6th, 2017, 6:30 PM – Camera Cafe, 14/11 Lipowa Street, free entry
December 8th, 2017, 8:30 PM – Forum cinema, 5 Legionowa Street, free entry

Amerykański sen / American Dream
director: Marek Skrzecz
directors of photography: Kacper Sędzielewski, Damian Kocur, Justyna Musialska
music: Audio Network
Poland 2017, 26’
Glucholazy, a small town bustling with life in the nineties, is now dying out. There is a great unemployment, and many people have left. In this dead-end place teenage Szymon decides to fulfil his big dream: he wants to become a professional wrestler.

Cargo
directors: Tomasz Bochniak, Sławomir Shuty
director of photography: Kajetan Plis
music: Łukasz Targosz, Wysoki Lot
Poland 2017, 11’08”
A metaphor for socio-political transformations that took place in the 1990s in the Eastern Bloc countries. It is also a reference to Cargo cults, a religious movement born in Fiji in the 19th century, proclaiming the arrival of a new order – equality of all people and widespread well-being.

Dziwny przypadek / Strange Case
director: Zbigniew Czapla,
director of photography: Zbigniew Czapla,
music: Marcin Oleś, Bartłomiej Oleś
Poland 2017, 13’30”
A surrealistic journey deep into consciousness. A pulsating stream of images, reflections and memories. A sequence of the protagonist’s personal experiences and an echo of collective memory.

Ja i mój tata / Me and My Father
director: Alek Pietrzak
director of photography: Mateusz Pastewka
music: Łukasz Targosz
Poland 2017, 30’
David is looking after his father who has a deepening Alzheimer’s disease. The son wants to know him better and get closer to the man whose health is declining with each passing day.

Najpiękniejsze fajerwerki ever / The Best Fireworks Ever
director: Aleksandra Terpińska
director of photography: Michał Dymek
Poland 2017, 30’
The film is set in a European city today. It depicts one day in the life of three young friends who have to modify their plans for the future as their country is up against an armed conflict.

Independent competition part II
December 7th, 2017, 7 PM – Camera Cafe, Camera Cafe, 14/11 Lipowa Street, free entry
December 9th, 2017, 5 PM – Forum Cinema, 5 Legionowa Street, free entry

60 kilo niczego / 60 Kilos of Nothing
director: Piotr Domalewski
director of photography: Bartosz Świniarski
Poland 2017, 27’
One morning in an opencast mine of precious metals. It is Krzysztof’s first working day as a manager. In order to survive in the environment of physical workers, where the man clearly doesn’t fit, he intends to maintain discipline with a firm hand.

Broken Tale
director: Paweł Kleszczewski, Kasia Zimnoch
director of photography: Mariusz Kleszczewski
music: Yann Ciennik
Ireland, Poland, Sweden 2016, 9’11”
A girl’s journey to the depths of primeval forest. Some unstoppable force pulls her into a lake hidden deep in the woods. The moose is her guide and mystic guardian. The story is based on a Swedish folk tale.

Czarnoksiężnik z krainy U.S. / The Wizard of U.S.
director: Balbina Bruszewska
directors of photography: Balbina Bruszewska, Tomasz Łaptaszyński, Mariusz Andryszczyk
music: Adam Hajzer, Martin Tillman, Nate Pennington
Poland 2016, 22’30”
An animated collage, a satire referring to L. Frank Baum’s novel. The tornado brings Dorothy to a place full of wealth and danger. The girl goes to meet the Wizard who will surely make her dreams come true.

Deer Boy
director: Katarzyna Gondek
director of photography: Maciej Twardowski
music: Marcin Lenarczyk (DJ Lenar)
Poland 2017, 15’
Combining a fairy tale and horror, it is a story about instincts. About the first hunt. About blood and nature. Here, parental tenderness is intertwined with disgust, dreams with reality, and child’s sensitivity with learning to kill.

Pierwszy Polak na Marsie / First Pole on Mars
director: Agnieszka Elbanowska
director of photography: Paweł Chorzępa
Poland 2017, 38’
Kazimierz, 68, builds a space communications device. At the same time, a battle to take part in the historic Mars One mission begins. Kazimierz has a chance to become one of the first colonists of Mars but he must defeat about three thousand candidates…

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