A PIECE OF SUMMER

KAWAŁEK LATA

 The end of summer, the end of holidays. A boy visits his grandfather who lives and works in the mountainous forests. Surrounded by wild nature and severe world they try to rebuild their bonds.

FILM REPRESENTED BY THE KRAKOW FILM FOUNDATION

  • Genre: Dokumentalny
  • Country: Polska
  • Running time: 23
  • Year: 2010

Director: Marta Minorowicz

Script: Marta Minorowicz

DOP: Paweł Chorzępa

Editing: Przemysław Chruścielewski

Production company: TVP S.A., Stowarzyszenie Filmowców Polskich - Studio Munka

About the director:

Marta Minorowicz

born in 1979. She studied Theatre at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow and completed a documentary film course at the Andrzej Wajda Master School of Film Directing. Her documentary A Piece of Summer (2010) was awarded the Grand Prix at the festival in Clermont‑Ferrand, the Golden Dove at the DOK festival in Leipzig and the White Cobra at the ‘Man in Danger’ media festival.

At festivals:

Era New Horizons International Film Festival 2010, Poland, 2010 (competition)

International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film - DOK Leipzig, Germany, 2010 (the Gol­den Dove / Short-​​length Documen­tary com­petition)

Polish Film Festival in America, Chicago, USA, 2010 (screening)

PLUS CAMERIMAGE 2010 - International Film Festival Of The Art Of Cinematography, Poland, 2010 (competition)

10th DocPoint - Helsinki Documentary Film Festival, Finland, 2011 (screening)

Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival, France, 2011 (Grand Prix)

7th ZagrebDox, Croatia, 2011 (competition)

Marathon Dok in Copenhagen, Denmark, 2011 (screening)

4th International Documentary Film Festival of Nicosia, Cyprus, 2011 (screening)

13th Mecal International Short Film Festival, Spain, 2011 (competition)

59th Trento Film Festival, Italy, 2011 (screening)

BELDOCS International Documentary Film Festival, Serbia, 2011 (screening)

8th IndieLisboa - Lisbon International Independent Film Festival, Portugal, 2011 (competition)

Almaty International Film Festival “Shaken’s Stars-2011”, Kazakhstan, 2011 (competition)

London International Documentary Festival (LIDF), UK, 2011 (screening)

14th Brooklyn Film Festival, USA, 2011 (competition)

Curt.doc Short Documentary Festival, Spain, 2011 (Nanook Second Prize)

Doc_Europa III, Portugal, 2011 (screening)

Makedox, Macedonia, 2011 (competition)

33th Moscow International Film Festival, Russia, 2011 (screening)

17th Film Festival Della Lessinia, Italy, 2011 (screening)

Open Cinema Film Festival, Russia, 2011 (screening)

Silhouette Film Festival, France, 2011 (screening)

31st Cambridge Film Festival, UK, 2011 (screening)

JC PowerHouse Short Film Festival, USA, 2011 (screening)

Festival "Les Yeux Ouverts sur l'Immigration", France, 2011 (screening)

Un Festival C'est Trop Court! Le Festival du Court Métrage de Nice, France, 2011 (screening)

6th Kenya International Film Festival in Nirobi, Kenya, 2011 (screening)

18th International Young Filmmakers Festival Of Granada, Spain, 2011 (competition)

Uppsala International Short Film Festival, Sweden, 2011 (competition)

20. European Film Festival for Documentaries dokumentART, Germany/Poland, 2011 (competition)

56th Cork Film Festival, Ireland, 2011 (competition)

Helsinki Short Film Festival, Finland, 2011 (competition)

22. Ljubljana International Film Festival, Slovenia, 2011 (competition)

International Izmir Short Film Festival, Turkey, 2011 (screening)

15th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival, Estonia, 2011 (screening)

Glasgow Short Film Festival, Scotland, 2012 (competition)

24rd Minimalen Short Film Festival, Norway, 2012 (screening)

Cologne International Women’s Film Festival, Germany, 2012 (competition)

Dortmund|Cologne International Women's Film Festival, 2012 (screening)

DOKUFEST, Kosovo, 2012 (screening)

Play Poland Film Festival, travelling, 2012 (screening)

DocsDF 2012, Mexico, 2012 (screening)

The New Generation of Polish Filmmakers, USA, 2012 (screening)

13th Dhaka International Film Festival, Bangladesh, 2013 (competition)

31st Fajr International Film Festival, Iran, 2013 (screening)

Dok Leipzig Lake Festival, India, 2013 (screening)

Film Africa Documentary Film Festival, Kenia, 2013 (competition)

IDFF "Flahertiana", Russia, 2015 (screening)

BOGOSHORTS - Bogota Short FF, Colombia, 2016 (screening)