ALL SOULS’ DAY

ŚWIĘTO ZMARŁYCH

On her eighteenth birthday, Lena is trying to bond with her family. All Souls’ Day, a time for contacting the dead and getting together to return to one’s roots, puts our protagonist in a special mood and changes her outlook on her own problems. Everything that happens throughout the day will revolutionise Lena’s view of her family. It is a story of the search for one’s identity and roots, of life and death, of the co-existence of parallel worlds that come together through the power of love.

FILM REPRESENTED BY KRAKOW FILM FOUNDATION

Genre: Fabularny
Country: Poland
Running time: 18
Year: 2012

Director: Aleksandra Terpińska

Script: Aleksandra Terpińska

DOP: Bartosz Bieniek

Music: Max Richter

Editing: Daniel Gąsiorowski

Production company: Wydział Radia i Telewizji Uniwersytetu Śląskiego w Katowicach (WRiTv UŚ)

About the director:

Polish filmmaker based in Warsaw. Director and screenwriter of short films, commercials and music videos. Studied Directing at the University of Silesia in Katowice, and Psychology at the University of Wroclaw. She has made 3 shorts films – Chicken, All Souls’ Day and America – and a documentary – Czech Swan. Her last film America (2015) is now in festival cirut. Untill now it recived 16 awards including Golden Horseman of the Youth Jury at Filmfest Dresden, Best Short Film at Sehsuchte International Student Film Festival in Potsdam, Golden Tadpole at Camerimage IFF, Early Bird Grand Award in Bulgaria and The Flaming Faun at Shnit International Shortfilm Festival. Her previous film "All Souls’ Day" was shown on over 100 film festivals among them San Sebastian, Palm Springs, Los Angeles, Edinburgh, Clermont-Ferrand. Received 16 awards, including Grand Prix at Short Film Festival in Drama, Best Short Film at Cottbus Film Festival and PFI and Mastershot Award at Camerimage IFF.

At festivals:

T-Mobile New Horizons International Film Festival 2012, Poland, 2012 (competition)

60th San Sebastian International Film Festival, Spain, 2012 (competition)

Reggio Film Festival, Italy, 2012 (competition)

13th Annual Polish Film Festival, USA, 2012 (Cinema Without Borders Award )

Film Festival Cottbus 2012, Germany, 2012 (Best Short Film)

European Film Festival in Essone, France, 2012 (screening)

19th Etiuda&Anima International Film Festival, Poland, 2012 (Honorary Mention)

20th Camerimage, Poland, 2012 (PISF and Mastershot Award)

35th Clermont Ferrand Short Film Festival, France, 2013 (competition)

4th Flicks Student Film Festival, The Netherlands, 2013 (competition)

18th Vilnius International Film Festival, Lithuania, 2013 (competition)

20th Febiofest International Film Festival, Slovakia, 2013 (competition)

Aspen Film Festival, USA, 2013 (competition)

8. Filmfestival FILM POLSKA Berlin, Germany, 2013 (screening)

2nd Kyiv International Short Film Festival, Ukraine, 2013 (Special Jury Prize)

Reykjavik Shorts&Docs Festival 2013, Iceland, 2013 (screening)

ArtFilm Fest 2013, Slovakia, 2013 (competition)

Palm Springs International Short Fest 2013, USA, 2013 (competition)

34th Durban International Film Festival, South Africa, 2013 (competition)

67th Edinburgh International Film Festival, UK, 2013 (competition)

21st Curtas Vila do Conde Film Festival, 2013 (screening)

Cinefiesta 2013, Puerto Rico, 2013 (competition)

Lviv International Short Film Festival Wiz-Art. 2013, Ukraine, 2013 (competition)

Aye Aye International Film Festival 2013, France, 2013 (competition)

19th International Short Film Festival in Drama, Greece, 2013 (Grand Prix)

10th Naoussa International Film Festival, Greece, 2013 (Best SEE Talents Film)

Milwaukee Film Festival 2013, USA, 2013 (competition)

Ploiesti International Film Festival, Romania, 2013 (competition)

International Short Film Festival of Lille 2013, France, 2013 (competition)

54th Brno Short Film Festival, Czech Republic, 2013 (competition)

Les Enfants terribles/Next Generation, Belgium, 2013 (Best Short Film of the Young Jury)

33rd International Film Festival Autumn in Voronet, Romania, 2013 (Best Student Film)

24th Ljulbjana International Film Festival, Slovenia, 2013 (competition)

6th Intenational Film Festival Northern Wave, Iceland, 2013 (competition)

25th International Istanbul Short Film Festival, Turkey, 2013 (competition)

6th Duka Fest, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2013 (competition)

22nd International Sequence Short Film Festival, France, 2013 (screening)

“Toamna de Aur” Film Festival, Moldova, 2013 (competition)

31st Festival Tous Courts -Aix en Provence, France , 2013 (Second Jury Prize)

Watersprite Cambridge International Student Film Festival, UK, 2014 (Best Directing, Best Cinematography)

Friss Hus Budapest Short Film Festival, Hungary, 2014 (screening)

53rd International Film Festival for Children and Youth, Czech Republic, 2014 (competition)

1st Student International Film Festival STIFF, Croatia, 2014 (competition)

Fabriano Film Fest 2014, Italy, 2014 (Best International Short)

15th Maremetraggio International Short Film Festival, Italy, 2014 (competition)

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

Fer Film International Film Festival, Kosovo, 2014 (competition)

Open Place Short Film Festival, Latvia, 2014 (competition)

11th Filmfest Eberswalde, Germany, 2014 (competition)

9th International Short Film Festival VILNIUS FILM SHORTS, Lithuania , 2014 (screening)

29th Brest European Short Film Festival, France, 2014 (screening)

21st Court c'est Court Short Film Festival, France, 2014 (screening)

Children First: 1st Anthropo FF of Children and Youth, Slovenia, 2015 (competition)

Busho Vision 11 - Budapest ISFF, Hungary, 2015 (screening)

1st International Film Festival for Children and Youth, Slovenia, 2015 (screening)

23rd IFF Camerimage, Poland, 2015 (screening)

22nd International Short Film Week Regensburg, Germany, 2016 (screening)

Encounters - 23rd Short Film & Animation Festival, UK, 2017 (screening)

Festival Fenetres sur Courts 2017, France, 2017 (screening)

Quebec City Film Festival 2019, Canada, 2019 (screening)