SIX WEEKS

SZEŚĆ TYGODNI

Living on welfare payments too small to survive on, in a tiny apartment with no hot water or gas, a single mother has no choice but to give her newborn to an orphanage. 6 Weeks is an intimate and powerful short that documents a mother’s painful goodbye as her baby, along with so many other babies, awaits its future in a Polish orphanage.

FILM REPRESENTED BY THE KRAKOW FILM FOUNDATION

  • Genre: Dokumentalny
  • Running time: 18
  • Year: 2009

Director: Marcin Janos Krawczyk

Script: Marcin Janos Krawczyk

DOP: Wojciech Staroń

Editing: Agnieszka Glińska

Production company: Staron Film SC, TVP S.A.

About the director:

Marcin Janos Krawczyk

Marcin Janos Krawczyk

Marcin Janos Krawczyk. Born on 26 October 1978. Director, Writer, Producer. Member of the Polish Filmmakers Association. Graduate of the Andrzej Wajda Master School of Film Directing and the Academy of Dramatic Arts in Wroclaw. As a director, he made his debut with the film "Rendez-vous", nominated for and winning numerous awards at dozens of festivals around the world, including Hot Docs 2007 Silverdocs 2007, Cinema du Reel 2007, and the Short Film Competition at the 57th Berlinale International Film Festival 2007. Another of his films, "Six Weeks", premièred at the IDFA festival in Amsterdam in 2009, where it won the main prize. In the same year, it also won the Silver Eye and was selected for over forty festivals. As a producer he debuted with the film "Mother 24/7" made for Polish Television. Currently at the festiwal "The Land of the Homeless".  

At festivals:

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

East Silver Market 2009, Czech Republic, 2009 (SILVER EYE AWARDS - the Best Short Documentary)

22nd International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA), 2009 (Best Short Documentary)

PLUS CAMERIMAGE, 2009 (competition)

DOX BOX International Documentary Film Festival, Syria, 2010 (competition)

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

Doc à Tunis, Tunisia, 2010 (screening)

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

Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival, 2010 (competition)

Curtocircuito, Spain, 2010 (competition)

Curt.doc Short Documentary Festival, Spain, 2010 (competition)

Palm Springs International ShortFest, USA, 2010 (competition)

Documentarist, Turkey, 2010 (screening)

Curtas Vila do Conde , Portugal, 2010 (screening)

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

Message to Man International Film Festival, St Petersburg, Russia, 2010 (screening)

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

Lemesos Int'l Documentery Festival, Cyprus, 2010 (competition)

Monterrey International Film Festival, Mexico, 2010 (Best Short Documentary Film)

Collecchio Video Film Festival, Italy, 2010 (screening)

Festival Silhouette Courts Metrages, France, 2010 (screening)

Belo Horizonte International Short Film Festival, Brazil, 2010 (screening)

Ljubl­jana Indepen­dent Documen­tary Film Festival DOKUBAZAAR, Slovenia, 2010 (screening)

dokumentART - European Documentary Film Festival, Germany / Poland, 2010 (Nagroda Miasta Neubrandenburg)

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

CNEX Documentary Film Festival, Taiwan, 2010 (screening)

Polish Film Festival in America, Chicago, USA, 2010 (screening)

ALCINE - Festival de Cine de Alcalá de Henares / Comunidad de Madrid, 2010 (screening)

REC Film Festival, in Puebla, Mexico, 2010 (screening)

Norwegian Documentary Film Festival Eurodok, Oslo, 2011 (screening)

KALIBER35 Munich International Short Film Festival, Germany, 2011 (competition)

6th Kenya International Film Festival in Nirobi, Kenya, 2011 (screening)

Somnio Film Festival 2012, the Netherlands, 2012 (screening)

DocsDF 2012, Mexico, 2012 (screening)

31st Festival Tous Courts -Aix en Provence, France , 2013 (screening)

17th Guanajuato International Film Festival, Mexico, 2014 (screening)

56th Festival dei Popoli IDFF, Italy, 2015 (screening)