THE PLACE

MIEJSCE

In a workplace situated higher than any other in Poland, the constant nocturnal observation of the surrounding world is an unbroken norm. The employees suspended in beyond time and space in ‘the Place’ remain at their posts, unshaken and immovable, despite reversals, adversities and startling situations.

  • Genre: Documentary
  • Country: Polska
  • Running time: 14
  • Year: 2015
  • Color: kolorowy

Director: Julia Popławska

Script: Julia Popławska

DOP: Grzegorz Hartfiel

Editing: Grzegorz Liwiński

Sound: Grzegorz Liwiński, Radosław Ochnio, Marcin Cichoń

Production company: Studio Munka

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About the director:

Julia Popławska

Julia Popławska

Documentary filmmaker and TV journalist. Member of  Polish Filmmakers Association. She worked as a correspondent for Newsweek Polska in Denmark in 2002 – 2005. She has collaborated with TVP (Polish National Television), Canal+, Kino Polska, TVN. Author of the documentary about Tibetans living in Poland – Children of Dalai Lama (2008), an exclusive interview with H.H. Dalai Lama (2009) and a television documentary The Polish Righteous (2008) about Poles who helped Jews during World War II. She graduated from Andrzej Wajda Master School of Film Directing in Warsaw, making documentary – Oh God, dear God (2010).  (2011 – Guía de Isora, MiradasDoc Festival, Spain,  prize for the Best Short Document, Kielce Festival of Documentary "Nurt", Mention).

In 2012 she won the competition for the best script about the old town of Mexico City announced by Docs Festival in Mexico DF.  She completed short film – "Centro" at the place within 100 hours.

In 2014 The Ministry of Culture and National Heritage scholarship holder. In 2015 she got Ontario Genomics Institute Artist Award and took part in Science and Communications residency at Banff Centre in Canada.

In 2015 she completed document  "The Place" (Munk Studio).

At festivals:

11th Zagreb Dox, Croatia, 2015 (competition)

22nd Hot Docs Canadian IDF, Canada, 2015 (competition)

Documenta Madrid, Spain, 2015 (competition)

Festival Al Este de Lima, Peru, 2015 (screening)

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

29th Pärnu International Documentary and Anthropology Film Festival, Estonia, 2015 (competition)

International Film Festival Nancy - Lorraine, France, 2015 (competition)

Fidocs, Chile, 2015 (competition)

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

18th CinemAmbiente – Environmental FF, Italy, 2015 (screening)

Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival, USA, 2015 (competition)

23rd International Festival of Mountain Films Poprad, Slovakia, 2015 (competition)

10th DocsDF, Mexico, 2015 (competition)

8th Imagine Science Film Festival, USA, 2015 (The Science/AAAS Scientist Award (runner-up))

13th Tegernsee International Mountain Film Festival, Germany, 2015 (Großer Preis der Stadt Tegernsee)

RIDM – Rencontres internationales du documentaire de Montréal, Canada, 2015 (competition)

Bansko Mountain Film Fest, Bulgaria, 2015 (competition)

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

"Cinema Verite" Iran International Documentary FF, Iran, 2015 (screening)

‘Punto de Vista’ International Documentary FF, Spain, 2016 (competition)

8th Iquique International Film Festival, Chile, 2016 (competition)

10th Mountain Film Festival Domzale, Slovenia, 2016 (competition)

6th Dutch Mountain Film Festival, The Netherlands, 2016 (Best Newcomer Award)

High Mountains Film Festival, Slovakia, 2016 (screening)

54th Ann Arbor Film Festival, USA, 2016 (competition)

64th Trento Film Festival, Italy, 2016 (competition)

VIS Vienna Independent Shorts, Austria, 2016 (competition)

7th Al Este de Lima Film Festival, Peru, 2016 (screening)

Imagine Science Films Paris, , 2016 (competition)

PICURT - Mostra de Cinema de Muntanya dels Pirineus, Spain, 2016 (screening)

Cervino CineMountain Festival, Italy, 2016 (competition)

Ushuaina SHH, Festival Internacional de Cine Montania, Argentina, 2016 (Mention)

Ulju Mountain Film Festival, South Korea, 2016 (competition)

ForadCamp 2016, 5th Nature and Cinema Exhibition, Spain, 2016 (Prize Cultural Association Granollers)

Kendal Mountain Film Festival 2016, UK, 2016 (Best Sound)

Montanha Pico Festival, Portugal, 2017 (screening)

Montanha Pico Festival 2017, Portugal, 2017 (competition)

Braemar Mountain Festival, The United Kingdom, 2017 (screening)