Portrait of a father, whose children live their own lives far away from him.
FILM REPRESENTED BY THE KRAKOW FILM FOUNDATION
Director: Marcin Podolec
Script: Marcin Podolec
Music: Wiktoria Nowak
Editing: Marcin Podolec
Production company: PWSFTviT (Państwowa Wyższa Szkoła Filmowa, Telewizyjna i Teatralna)
Marcin Podolec – born in 1991 in Jarosław, Poland; comic artist, animator, currently works mostly on documentaries and biographies. A graduate (2015) of The Polish National Film School in Lodz (Animation department). His books are published by Kultura Gniewu; co-author of the comic albums: Captain Sheer (2010), Insight (2014) and Sometimes (2011), which was awarded The Comic Book of the Year in Poland; writer and illustrator of All Taken (2012) and Fugazi Music Club (2013), which was sold to several international publishers (Italy, France, Germany, Spain). His short animadoc A Documentary Film (2015) was screened and awarded at many film festivals, such as the DOK Lepizig, SICAF (Seoul) and Clermont-Ferrand Film Festival. His next animated documentary, The Gentle Giant (2016), is his graduate film.
10th Athens Animfest, Greece, 2015 (competition)
6th Golden Kuker IAFF, Bulgaria , 2015 (competition)
SICAF - 19th Seoul ICAF, Korea , 2015 (competition)
Ningbo Film Festival, China, 2015 (screening)
31st Warsaw Film Festival, Poland, 2015 (screening)
Play Poland Film Festival, United Kingdom, 2015 (screening)
58th International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film, Germany , 2015 (competition)
29th Leeds International Film Festival, United Kingdom, 2015 (competition)
35th Film School Fest Munich, Germany, 2015 (competition)
22nd IFF Etiuda&Anima, Poland, 2015 (Student Jury Award)
56th Festival dei Popoli IDFF, Italy, 2015 (competition)
CineMAiubit FIlm Festival, Romania , 2015 (competition)
"Cinema Verite" Iran International Documentary FF, Iran, 2015 (screening)
25th Flickerfest’s International Short Film Festival, Australia, 2016 (screening)
Trieste Film Festival, Italy , 2016 (competition)
38th Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival, France, 2016 (competition)
22nd International Short Film Week Regensburg, Germany, 2016 (screening)
19th Holland Animation Film Festival, The Netherlands, 2016 (competition)
Vilnius International FF “Kino pavasaris", Lithuania, 2016 (competition)
29th Finale Plzen Film Festival, Czech Republic, 2016 (competition)
ANIFILM 2016, Czech Republic, 2016 (competition)
Wales International Documentary Festival, UK, 2016 (competition)
Rooftop Films, USA, 2016 (screening)
10th River Film Festival, Italy, 2016 (competition)
18th Tel-Aviv International Student Film Festival, Israel, 2016 (competition)
23th Capalbio Cinema International Film Festival, Italy, 2016 (screening)
9th International Animation Festival Fest Anca, Slovakia, 2016 (screening)
15th Best of International Short Film Festival, France, 2016 (competition)
24th Curtas Vila do Conde, Portugal, 2016 (screening)
12th Lago Film Fest 2016, Italy, 2016 (screening)
22nd Sarajevo Film Festival, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2016 (competition)
27th Sao Paulo International Short Film Festival, Brazil, 2016 (SESC TV Award for Best Debut Director)
Animæntary 2016, Mexico, 2016 (screening)
12th Reykjavik International Film Festival, Iceland, 2016 (screening)
Central and Eastern European Film Festival, Luxembourg, 2016 (competition)
DocsMX, Mexico, 2016 (competition)
REX Animation Film Festival 2016, Sweden, 2016 (competition)
5th Primanima World Festival For First Animation, HUNGARY, 2016 (competition)
8th ReAnimania International Animation and Comics Art Festival, Armenia, 2016 (screening)
Big Cartoon Festival 2016, Russia, 2016 (screening)
25th dokumentART, Germany, 2016 (competition)
32nd interfilm, International Short Film Festival Berlin, Germany, 2016 (screening)
35th International Children's and Youth FF, Finland, 2016 (competition)
Poitiers Film Festival 2016, France, 2016 (competition)
17th Tbilisi International Film Festival, Georgia, 2016 (screening)
14th International Short and Independent Film Festival 2016, Bangladesh, 2016 (competition)
BOGOSHORTS - Bogota Short FF, Colombia, 2016 (competition)
15th Pune International Film Festival, India, 2017 (competition)
FIPA New Talent, France, 2017 (competition)
11th MiradasDoc, Canary Islands, 2017 (competition)
Festival Dei Popoli a Palermo, Italy, 2017 (competition)
8th Festival Chalon Tout Court, France, 2017 (competition)
LET’S CEE Film Festival, Austria, 2017 (screening)
Ljubljana International Short Film Festival 2017, Slovenia, 2017 (competition)
DocsBarcelona, Spain, 2017 (competition)
SICAF 2017, Korea, 2017 (screening)
The International Film Festival With Gender Perspective - MICGénero 2017, Mexico, 2017 (competition)
13th World Festival of Animated Film in Varna 2017, Bulgaria, 2017 (screening)
Aesthetica Short Film Festival 2017, The United Kingdom, 2017 (screening)
12th Seoul Best of Best Animation Festival, Korea, 2018 (screening)
Documentarist 12th Istanbul Documentary Days, 2019 (competition)
Quebec City Film Festival 2019, Canada, 2019 (screening)
Animatou - International Animation Film Festival 2019, Switzerland, 2019 (screening)
AFSAD 3rd International Film Festival, Turkey, 2019 (screening)
AFSAD 3rd International Film Festival, Turkey, 2019 (screening)