SIDE-TRACK

BOCZNICA

A holiday season has begun on a siding in the Hel peninsula. Holiday makers make new friends, have fun together and talk about what makes them happy, sad, surprised or fascinated. New bonds are forged, summer love is in the air. Vacation in a railway car, which used to be popular once, is now inevitably becoming history. The film is a nostalgic attempt at evoking its unique atmosphere.

FILM REPRESENTED BY THE KRAKOW FILM FOUNDATION

  • Genre: Dokumentalny
  • Country: Poland
  • Running time: 44
  • Year: 2009

Director: Anna Kazejak

Script: Anna Kazejak

DOP: Jakub Giza

Editing: Jarosław Kamiński

Production company: Besta Film

About the director:

Anna Kazejak

Anna Kazejak

born in 1979 in Bytom. She studied Culture Studies in Łódź and Katowice as well as Film Directing at Łódź Film School, where she received her diploma. She makes documentaries, which include My Place (2003), Jesteśmy (2004), fiction films, such as You Are There (2004), and novels including Śląsk as a part of Ode to Joy (2005) and A Few Simple Words (2007). Her films have won awards in Cottbus, Tbilisi, Beirut, Trieste, Rio de Janeiro and Gdynia, among others, and she has been nominated to Polityka’s Passport, an award of ‘Polityka’ weekly, as well as the Bull of Success award presented by ‘Sukces’ magazine.

At festivals:

DOK Leipzig, Germany, 2009 (screening)

East Silver Market 2009, Czech Republic, 2009 (SILVER EYE AWARDS - Special Mention)

PLUS CAMERIMAGE, 2009 (competition)

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

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

X International Documentary Film Festival FLAHERTIANA, Russia, 2010 (screening)