FROM BED THOU AROSE

Z ŁÓŻKA POWSTAŁEŚ

A comically absurd parable that tells the story of a furniture-beds maker who, after the fall of communism, expands his business, from camp beds right through to run-ins with the mafia. He pays a price in his private life for getting drunk on freedom and capitalism. The Polish transformation from a bed point of view, or 20 scenes from the groundbreaking events in Poland’s recent history. Probably the first film in the history made only from the top shots.

FILM REPRESENTED BY THE KRAKOW FILM FOUNDATION

  • Genre: Live action
  • Country: Poland
  • Running time: 23
  • Year: 2014
  • Color: colour

Director: Bartek Konopka

Script: Bartek Konopka, Michał Ogórek

DOP: Jacek Podgórski

Editing: Andrzej Dąbrowski

Production company: Otter Films, Narodowy Bank Polski

About the director:

Bartek Konopka

Bartek Konopka

Oscar nominated for the “Rabbit a la Berlin” (2009) documentary that was shown at more than 70 festivals, received a dozen prizes and had been sold to 40 countries. His feature fiction debut “Fear of Falling” (2011) premiered at Montreal IFF (awarded at Mannheim, Mumbai, Lecce, Vincennes, Gdynia). Released in cinemas in France, Spain, Iran and  Poland. Author of many documentaries and couple of fictions that gained an international acclaim. Bartek is a graduate of film studies at the Jagiellonian University Krakow and Film Directing at the Silesian University in Katowice. Member of European Film Academy and the Board of Polish Film Institute.

At festivals:

14th T-mobile New Horizons International Film Festival, Poland, 2014 (competition)

Cottbus film festival, 2014 (screening)

Trieste Film Festival 2015, Italy, 2015 (competition)

7th Ljubljana International Short Film Festival 2015, Slovenia, 2015 (screening)

Brooklyn Film Festival 2015, USA, 2015 (Best Narrative Short)

55th Krakow Film Festival, Poland, 2015 (competition)

Sapporo International Short Film Festival 2015 and Market, Japan, 2015 (screening)

31st Warsaw Film Festival, Poland, 2015 (screening)

16th Los Angeles Polish Film Festival, USA, 2015 (competition)

25th FilmFestival Cottbus, Germany, 2015 (competition)

30th European Short Film Festival of Brest, France, 2015 (competition)

Sleepwalkers International Short Film Festival 2015, Estonia, 2015 (competition)

Art. Fair Riga 2015, Latvia, 2015 (screening)

13th Bogotá Short Film Festival, Colombia, 2015 (competition)

IN THE PALACE International Short FF 2015, Bulgaria, 2015 (competition)