FIRST POLE ON MARS

PIERWSZY POLAK NA MARSIE

In the Milky Way, on the Solar System’s third planet from the Sun, Kazimierz, aged 68 is mounting a device for communication with the Cosmos. At the same space-time, the fight for participation in the historic Mars One project begins. Kazimierz has a chance of becoming one of the first colonisers of Mars. But first he must overcome some three thousand other applicants…

  • Genre: Documentary
  • Running time: 39
  • Year: 2016
  • Color: kolorowy

Director: Agnieszka Elbanowska

Script: Agnieszka Elbanowska

DOP: Paweł Chorzępa

Editing: Katarzyna Boniecka

Production company: square film studio sp. z o.o.

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About the director:

Agnieszka Elbanowska

Agnieszka Elbanowska

Director, editor and photographer. She graduated from the University of Warsaw’s Italian Department, from the History, Theory and Criticism of Cinema and Audiovisual Department of the Roma Tre University, from the Academy of Film and Television in Warsaw, and from the Wajda School. She has collaborated with Polish Television, and has co-created documentary films for TVP Polonia ("Liberta", "Prelude"). Her latest film, “The Love Equation of Henry Fast” was awarded on national and international festivals.

At festivals:

32nd Warsaw Film Festival, Poland, 2016 (competition)

DOCfeed International Documentary Festival Eindhoven, The Netherlands, 2017 (screening)

ZagrebDOX, Croatia, 2017 (competition)

AFI DOCS, USA, 2017 (competition)

12th Pravo Ljudski Film Festival, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2017 (screening)