THE STONE

KAMIEŃ

A nun who uses a wheelchair touches a common-or-garden stone in a park and is cured. In the archbishop’s eyes, the stone is far too secular an object for the Vatican to recognise the event as a miracle. The nun’s Mother Superior uses a bluff to save the day, convincing the archbishop to pass the matter to higher echelon by telling him that Saint Andrzej Bobola appeared to her and affirmed the stone’s divine origins. As bad luck would have it, the Chief Rabbi of Poland, who uses crutches, sits down on the same stone. He, too, is miraculously cured. The priests are left in no doubt. They either have a shared miracle or no miracle at all.

  • Genre: Live action
  • Country: Poland
  • Running time: 25
  • Year: 2020
  • Color: colour

Director: Bartosz Kozera

Script: Bartosz Kozera

DOP: Tomasz Gajewski

Editing: Magdalena Chowańska

Sound: Piotr Kwieciński, Jakub Jaworski

Production company: Studio Munka, MX35, Coloroffon, Halo Productions, No Drama Production, TVN Film

About the director:

Bartosz Kozera

Bartosz Kozera

Screenwriter and director Bartosz Kozera has won the TVN television station’s award for a contemporary cinema comedy screenplay (2014), a Papaya Young Directors 1st prize (2016), the 2nd prize in the 3rd Polish Small-Scale Theatre Scripts competition (2016) and reached the final of the 6th Script Fiesta organised by the Warsaw Film School. He has sold two full-length feature screenplays and is the author of a number of episodes of long-running TV serials. He likes mournful satire and Iggy Pop and dislikes working in sales.

At festivals:

60th Krakow Film Festival, 2020, Poland, 2020 (competition)

36th Warsaw Film Festival, Poland, 2020 (screening)

18th BOGOSHORTS Bogotá Short Film Festival, Columbia, 2020 (competition)

JEONJU International Film Festival, 2021, South Korea, 2021 (Grand Prix)

22nd Festival International du Film d’Aubagne - Music & Cinema, France, 2021 (competition)

39th International Short Film Festival Tous Courts of Aix-en-Provence, France, 2021 (competition)

24th Mecal Pro Barcelona International Short and Animation Festival, Spain, 2022 (screening)

Tetova International Film Festival ODA, Macedonia, 2022 (competition)

Beast International Film Festival, Portugal, 2022 (competition)

Marrakech Short Film Festival, Marocco, 2022 (competition)