THE SNAILS

ŚLIMAKI

Andrzej decides to open a snail farm together with his friend. Despite the lack of experience, he believes in the success of the enterprise. Grzegorz Skalmowski from Pasłęk comes to the rescue; he is the Polish snail guru called ‘the Snail King’ and gives valuable advice. Preparations for the farm opening are in progress. During breaks at work, the men talk about life and death, love and friendship, which becomes the essence of the film and the snail grows to the proportion of the symbol of revival and eternal life.

  • Genre: Documentary
  • Country: Poland
  • Running time: 29
  • Year: 2015
  • Color: kolorowy

Director: Grzegorz Szczepaniak

Script: Grzegorz Szczepaniak

DOP: Daniel Wawrzyniak, Marek Kozakiewicz

Editing: Wojciech Janas

Production company: Wajda Studio

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About the director:

Grzegorz Szczepaniak

Grzegorz Szczepaniak

Born in 1984 in Lublin. He is a guitarist by education, a graduate of the F. Chopin University of Music in Warsaw, and a film editor, a graduate of the Film School in Łódź. The Snails, his documentary debut, was made during the DOK PRO course organised by the Andrzej Wajda Master School of Film Directing in Warsaw. The film was developed under the artistic supervision of Jacek Bławut, Marcel Łoziński and Vita Żelakeviciute.

At festivals:

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

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

58th International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film, Germany , 2015 (screening)

22nd IFF Etiuda&Anima, Poland, 2015 (Special Mention)

GoShort - ISFF Nijmegen, The Netherlands, 2016 (Audience Award)

It's All True - 21st International Documentary Film Festival, Brazil, 2016 (competition)

Crossing Europe Film Festival, Austria, 2016 (screening)

DocumentaMadrid, Spain, 2016 (competition)

A Long Week of Short Films Festival Shanghai 2016, 2016 (competition)

AFI DOCS, USA, 2016 (Audience Award)

Traverse City Film Festival, USA, 2016 (Honorable Mention)

16th T-Mobile New Horizons IFF, Poland, 2016 (competition)

Central and Eastern European Film Festival, Luxembourg, 2016 (competition)

DocsMX, Mexico, 2016 (competition)

31st Unabhängiges FilmFest Osnabrück, Germany, 2016 (screening)

St. Louis International Film Festival, USA, 2016 (competition)

BOGOSHORTS - Bogota Short FF, Colombia, 2016 (competition)

Tartu World Film Festival, Estonia, 2017 (competition)

1st Hancheng International Short Film Festival, China, 2017 (competition)

Film Festival Film Night at the Castle 2018, Slovakia, 2018 (screening)