FOUR WALLS OF MEMORY

CZTERY SCIANY PAMIĘCI

A story about a girl who wanted to escape her own fear, but accidentally traps herself together with it in a small cabin in the woods. Locked inside four walls, with no way out, she has to deal with hunger, cold and the fear of something that once wanted to hurt her… but now lies dead beside her.

Genre: Animated
Country: Poland
Running time: 12
Year: 2024
Color: black and white

Director: Joanna Płatek

Script: Joanna Płatek

DOP: Joanna Płatek

Music: Kacper Krupa

Editing: Joanna Płatek

Sound: Kacper Krupa

Production company: Paweł Prewencki, Magdalena Abakanowicz University of Arts in Poznań

About the director:

Joanna Płatek was born in 2001 in Poznań. In 2021, she graduated from the High School of Fine Arts in Poznań, after which she began studying animation at the University of Arts in Poznań. In particular, she is interested in the technique of animating sand under a camera and traditional drawing on paper.

At festivals:

20th SHORTS MÉXICO - International Short Film Festival, Mexico, 2025 (Honorable mention in the International Animation Competition )

14th Kyiv International Short Film Festival, Ukraine, 2025 (competition)

16th Lviv International Film Festival Wiz-Art, Ukraine, 2025 (competition)

12th Tripoli Film Festival 2025, Lebanon, 2025 (competition)

44th Vancouver International Film Festival, Canada, 2025 (competition)

22nd Sedicicorto Forlì International Film Festival, Italy, 2025 (competition)

The ANIMAGE – 15th International Animation Festival of Pernambuco, Brazil, 2025 (Best Student Short Film)

44th Uppsala Short Film Festival, Sweden, 2025 (competition)

27th FestCurtas Belo Horizonte, 2025, Brasil, 2025 (competition)

International Short Film Festival "Ciudad de Soria" 2025, Spain, 2025 (competition)

2025 PÖFF Shorts, 2025, Estonia, 2025 (competition)