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LOKATORKI

Justyna, a young woman who’s the main protagonist in the film, buys a flat at a bailiff auction regardless the risk it may bring. When she wants to move in it turns out that the keys she was given do not fit the locks. A dream about a place of her own turns into a nightmare.

  • Genre: Live action
  • Country: Poland
  • Running time: 30
  • Year: 2015
  • Color: kolorowy

Director: Klara Kochańska

Script: Klara Kochańska, Kasper Bajon

DOP: Zuzanna Pyda

Editing: Barbara Fronc

Production company: PWSFTviT (Państwowa Wyższa Szkoła Filmowa, Telewizyjna i Teatralna)

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About the director:

Klara Kochańska

Klara Kochańska

Born on 15.06.1984 in Krakow, Poland. She studied five years on Warsaw University in the department of Interdiciplinary Humanistic Studies, among others Anthropology of Culture, Philosophy, History of Art. Since 2009 she is a student of film directing in Polish National Film School in Lodz. Nowadays she is working on a screenplay and pre-production of her feature debut (in production development with Film Studio KADR) and raising a four year old son. She is the author of films screened on festivals in Poland and abroad and distributed by TV channels like Planete+Doc, Kino Polska, TVP Kultura. Her works are, among others, „Snow Queen”, „Resurrection”, „10 Apgar” and "Tenants" as well as music clips like „The Cliff” and „Enchanted”.

At festivals:

Student Academy Awards, (Bronze Medal)

31st Warsaw Film Festival, Poland, 2015 (Short Grand Prix)

13th Global Chinese Universities Student Film and TV Festival, China, 2016 (Foreign Film Golden Award)

56th Krakow Film Festival, Poland, 2016 (competition)

37th Durban International Film Festival, RPA, 2016 (competition)

51st Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, Czech Republic, 2016 (screening)

10th First International Film Festival, China, 2016 (Grand Jury Prize - Short Film)

32nd Warsaw Film Festival, Poland, 2016 (screening)

9th La Cabina International Medium Length Film Festival, Spain, 2016 (competition)

26th FilmFestival Cottbus, Germany, 2016 (screening)

24th International Film Festival Camerimage, Poland, 2016 (competition)

VGIK International Student Festival 2016, Russia, 2016 (Best Feature Film)

23rd International Film Festival Etiuda&Anima, Poland, 2016 (Honourable Mention)

15th Pune International Film Festival, India, 2017 (Best Film in Volkswagen International Students Live Action Competition)

29th Premiers Plans Film Festival, France, 2017 (competition)

Fresh Wave Short Film Festival, Hongkong, 2017 (competition)

6th Bangalore Shorts Film Festival, India, 2017 (Best Actress)

Encounters - 23rd Short Film & Animation Festival, UK, 2017 (screening)

Polish Film Festival Los Angeles, USA, 2017 (CWB Award)

Clermont-Ferrand ISFF, France, 2018 (screening)

Kaoshiung Film Festival,Taiwan, 2018 (screening)