7 SHEEP

7 OWIEC

A lonely little girl is hidden in the mountains. Together with an elderly man and his sheep she tries to create a new world around her. 7 sheep is a journey to the magic moments of childhood, overcoming fear and solitude

Genre: Live action
Country: DENMARK
Running time: 22
Year: 2015
Color: kolorowy

Director: Wiktoria Szymańska

Script: Wiktoria Szymańska

DOP: Martin Boege

Music: Ricardo Cortes

Editing: Mirjam Strugalla

Production company: Luna W., Tea Productions

About the director:

Writer and film director with background as a painter and visual artist, was born in Poland, grew up in UK, studied in France, and now works between Germany, Poland, France, Mexico and Tanzania. Her film “Themerson and Themerson” (2011) has been celebrated around the world as one of the best documentary about art. Her “The man who made angels fly” (2013) won IDFA Industry Award and premiered at Karlove Vary and Hot Docs. Wiktoria also made shorts and video installations about dance and female bodies. In 2014 she made a series of visual poems for Channel4 “Women in the cities”. Wiktoria is a graduate of the Arts Plastique Sorbonne and Wajda School in Warsaw. She also took part in Eurodoc, Esodoc and Archidoc – La Femis. She was a a fellow of Nipkow program and British Arts Council Award and worked for many European Tvs. Her documentaries are coproduced by ARTE, Channel4, SVT, YLE, BBC, AVRO, TVP, NHK, supported by Arts Council, Creative Europe, PISF, CNC, and regional funds in France and Poland.

At festivals:

40th Toronto International Film Festival, Canada, 2015 (competition)

13th Morelia International Film Festival,Mexico, 2015 (competition)

Trieste Film Festival, Italy , 2016 (competition)

Athens International Film + Video Festival, USA, 2016 (Third Prize)

33rd Busan International Short Film Festival, South Korea, 2016 (competition)

International Film Festival Cinema of the Future Society 2016, Albania, 2016 (competition)

Festival de la Petite Ecole du Film Court 2016, France, 2016 (competition)

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

19th Guanajuato International Short Film Festival, Mexico, 2016 (competition)

20th Rhode Island Film Festival, USA, 2016 (competition)

22nd Film Festival della Lessinia, Italy, 2016 (competition)

22nd Festival International Du Film Nancy-Lorraine, France, 2016 (Best Music Prize)

Cineseptiembre Filmfest 2016, Mexico, 2016 (competition)

12th Reykjavik International Film Festival, Iceland, 2016 (screening)

Un festival c'est trop court! - Nice Short Film Festival 2016, France, 2016 (competition)

26th FilmFestival Cottbus, Germany, 2016 (competition)

3rd Festival Cinemistica, Spain, 2016 (La Lupa y El Iman Award)

14th International Short and Independent Film Festival 2016, Bangladesh, 2016 (competition)

MEDIAWAVE – “ANOTHER CONNECTION” International Film and Music Gathering, Hungary, 2017 (competition)

AFSAD 3rd International Film Festival, Turkey, 2019 (screening)