CHEMO

CHEMIA

Patients in an oncology clinic receive chemotherapy. Their faces can be seen in a close-up. They lie in pairs and talk. They hold fascinating conversations. Life seen from a different perspective, a distance offered by a hospital, reveals its value, sense and charm. Why so late?

FILM REPRESENTED BY THE KRAKOW FILM FOUNDATION

  • Genre: Dokumentalny
  • Country: Poland
  • Running time: 58
  • Year: 2009

Director: Paweł Łoziński

Script: Paweł Łoziński

DOP: Kacper Lisowski

Editing: Katarzyna Maciejko-Kowalczyk, Dorota Wardęszkiewicz

Production company: Paweł Łoziński Produkcja Filmów

About the director:

Paweł Łoziński

Paweł Łoziński

Born in 1965 in Warsaw. Polish director, cameraman and producer of documentaries. Graduate of the Directing Department at the Film School in Łódź. Author of more than 20 award-winning documentaries. He makes distinct and emotionally charged films about people of whom he draws intimate portraits. Łoziński gained international recognition with his documentary debut „Birthplace” (1992). His next films „Sisters”, „Chemo”, „Father and Son”, „You Have No Idea How Much I Love You” and the latest „TheBalcony Movie” are considered innovative as they venture into new thematic areas and exploreuncharted spaces within the documentary film genre.
fot. Piotr Jaxa

At festivals:

9. International Film Festival Era New Horizons, Wrocław, Poland, 2009 (competition)

II Festiwal Filmu Środkowoeuropejskiego w Luksemburgu, 2009 (screening)

Prix Europa, Berlin, Germany, 2009 (Nagroda w kategorii: TV Documentary)

DOK Leipzig, Germany, 2009 (MDR Film Prize)

East Silver Market 2009, Czech Republic, 2009 (screening)

Minsk International Film Festival Listapad, 2009 (competition)

DocPoint - Helsinki Documentary Film Festival, 2010 (screening)

ZagrebDox International Festival of Documentary Films, Croatia, 2010 (competition)

One World – International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival, Czech Republic, 2010 (Best Director Award)

12th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival – Images of the 21st Century, Greece, 2010 (competition)

Docudays Ua - International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival, Ukraine, 2010 (competition)

It's All True - International Documentary Film Festival, Sao Paulo, Brazil, 2010 (competition)

Beldocs, International Documentary Film Festival 2010, Serbia, 2010 (screening)

Anasy Documentary Awards, United Arab Emirates, 2010 (Best Director)

Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival, 2010 (competition)

New York Festivals - International Television & Film Awards, USA, 2010 (Gold World Medal)

Munich International Documentary Film Festival, 2010 (screening)

DOXA Documentary Film Festival, Canada, 2010 (DOXA Feature Documentary Award)

MIDA International Documentary Award, China, 2010 (screening)

Moscow International Film Festival, Russia, 2010 (competition)

Documentarist, Turkey, 2010 (screening)

XXIV Pärnu International Film Festival, Estonia, 2010 (competition)

DOKUFEST, The International Documentary and Short Film Festival, Kosovo, 2010 (competition)

DMZ Korean International Documentary Festival, 2010 (competition)

Split Film Festival, Croatia, 2010 (screening)

dokumentART - European Documentary Film Festival, Germany / Poland, 2010 (screening)

X International Documentary Film Festival FLAHERTIANA, Russia, 2010 (“Silver Nanook” for the best short film)

"Cinema Verite" Iran International Documentary Film Festival, 2010 (First Prize of International Mid-Length Documentary Competition)

3th International Documentary Festival in Agadir FIDADOC, Morocco, 2010 (Grand Prize)

14th DocsBarcelona International Documentary Film Festival, Spain, 2011 (screening)

DOX BOX, Syria, 2011 (screening)

6th Dockanema Documentary Film Festival, Mozambique, 2011 (screening)

Festival dei Popoli – International Documentary Film Festival, Italy, 2013 (screening)

8th Ulsan Ulju Mountain Film Festival, South Korea, 2023 (screening)