19.91

‘19.91’ is a quiet and modest story of a meeting between 19 year old Jette from Germany and a 91 year old Pole – Mrs. Zofia. During Jette’s one year annual voluntary service in Warsaw, she regularly visits Mrs. Zofia, who spent her teenage years in concentration camps in Auschwitz and Ravensbrück.

Genre: Documentary
Country: Poland
Running time: 24
Year: 2019
Color: kolorowy

Director: Emilia Śniegoska

Script: Emilia Śniegoska

DOP: Ewa Radzewicz

Editing: Anna Gontarczyk

Production company: Studio Munka

About the director:

director and linguist. 2010 She graduated from the Universiät of Greifswald (Germany) with degrees in German as a Foreign Language, Baltic and Finnish Studies. 2006 -2010 she cooperated with the Centre of Theatre Practices Gardzienice. 2018 she graduated in film directing at the Polish National Film and Television School in Lodz (Poland). From 2014 she gains experience as an assistant director at feature fiction and documentary films and works at television formats. Currently she lives and works in Berlin.

At festivals:

59th Krakow Film Festival, Poland, 2019 (competition)

Warsaw Film Festival, Poland, 2019 (screening)

Nice European Short FF, France, 2019 (competition)

22nd Olympia International Film Festival for Children and Young People, Greece, 2019 (Special Mention)

Budapest International Documentary Festival 2020, Hungary, 2020 (Winner of Short Competition of Young Filmmakers)

Docudays UA International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival 2020, Ukraine, 2020 (competition)

33rd Helsinki International Film Festival, Finland, 2020 (screening)

44th Atlanta Film Festival, USA, 2020 (competition)

30th Film Festival Cottbus, Germany, 2020 (competition)

39th Oulu International Children's and Youth Film Festival, Finland, 2020 (competition)

FIPADOC International Documentary Festival 2022, France, 2022 (screening)

62nd Krakow Film Festival, Poland, 2022 (screening)

DenkmalKunst – KunstDenkmal 2022, 2022 (screening)

63rd Festival dei Popoli, Italy, 2022 (screening)