BUDDIES

KUMPLE

Close your eyes and try to walk a few steps. Close your eyes and try to run 42 km! Impossible? The blind marathon runner – the main character of “Buddies”, every day proves that everything is possible. In complete darkness he ran more than 100 marathons. Rysiek to be able to run must have a guide. For several years, his guide is Felix. Hours spent together on common training approach them to each other. “Buddies” is a story about running, friendship and ability to enjoy the small things in life. Film breaks the stereotype of the disabled person.

FILM REPRESENTED BY KRAKOW FILM FOUNDATION

  • Genre: Documentary
  • Running time: 45
  • Year: 2013
  • Color: kolorowy

Director: Joanna Kaczmarek

Script: Joanna Kaczmarek

DOP: Piotr Niemyjski, Przemysław Niczyporuk

Music: Krzysztof Aleksander Janczak

Editing: Jan Kidawa-Błoński jr

Production company: Studio Filmowe KRONIKA

About the director:

Joanna Kaczmarek

Joanna Kaczmarek

Enrolled in theatre studied at the Drama School in Warsaw. A graduate of directing at the Krzysztof Kieślowski Radio and Television Department of the Silesia University in Katowice. In 1999 she received the K. Kieslowski Award for a short film script, which she used to make her first film, Egzamin. The author of documentaries and short feature films: Men Prefer Blondes (2003), Retro (2003), Don’t know (2004), 483 km (2005), Wild Beach (2006; co-directed with Barbara Białowąs).

At festivals:

7th Baghdad International Film Festival, Iraq, 2015 (screening)