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 Kasisi, an orphanage 40 km away from Zambia’s capital, takes in starving and ill children, often on the verge of death, whom nobody wants. For many of them, the orphanage run by Polish missionaries is a last resort. Great sacrifice of nuns, however, may both bring joy and cause suffering. One of the children is Francis, a young boy with HIV. Can the nuns persuade him to put up an unequal fight against the disease?

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  • Genre: Dokumentalny
  • Country: Poland
  • Running time: 24
  • Year: 2012

Director: Kacper Czubak

Script: Kacper Czubak

DOP: Kacper Czubak

Editing: Marta Głażewska

Production company: Telewizja Religia

About the director:

Kacper Czubak

Kacper Czubak

Born in 1980. He is a cinematographer and film director. A graduate of the Radio and Television Faculty at Silesia University in Katowice. A holder of the scholarship of the Faculty of Film and TV at the Academy of Performing Arts (FAMU) in Prague. As a cinematographer he has made several documentaries in Africa and Asia. He also shoots short feature films. He has worked on Dorota Kędzierzawska’s full‑length feature films ("Time to Die", "Tomorrow Will Be Better") as an assistant director. The film "Hermits" is his directing debut.

At festivals:

24. Polish Film Festival in America, 2012 (screening)

DOXA Documentary FF, Canada, 2013 (Short Documentary Award)

5th Dokubazaar, Slovenia, 2013 (screening)

Children First: 1st Anthropo FF of Children and Youth, Slovenia, 2015 (competition)