ARENA

A hitchhiker is taken in by an remote Polish mountain community. Absorbed by the charismatic locals and unforgiving harshness of his new environment he constitutes his presence in the mountains. But to whom do we have to prove of what we’re made?

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  • Genre: Fabularny
  • Country: Poland
  • Running time: 23
  • Year: 2013

Director: Martin Rath

Script: Martin Rath

DOP: Bartosz Świniarski

Music: Artur Walaszczyk

Editing: Patrik Eriksson

Production company: PWSFTviT (Państwowa Wyższa Szkoła Filmowa, Telewizyjna i Teatralna), NUR

Trailer

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About the director:

Martin Rath

Martin Rath

Martin Rath grew up in East Berlin. He graduated from Edinburgh College of Art and is currently studying at the directing department of the National Polish Film School in Lodz. His short documentary “Written in Ink” has been shown at more than 100 international film festivals including SXSW and Hot Docs. In 2013 Martin completed his 23 min. fiction short film “Arena”.

At festivals:

58th Cork Film Festival, Ireland, 2013 (Grand Prix)

2013 Sleepwalkers International Film Festival, Estonia, 2013 (competition)

Kustendorf International Film & Music Festival 2014, Serbia, 2014 (Vilko Filač Award for the best Cinematography)

19th Vilnius International Film Festival, Lithuania, 2014 (competition)

17th Brooklyn International Film Festival, USA, 2014 (competition)

33th New Jersey International Film Festival, USA, 2014 (Special Mention)

Trenton International Film Festival, USA, 2014 (competition)

21st Twin Rivers Multimedia Festival, USA, 2014 (competition)

14th T-mobile New Horizons International Film Festival, Poland, 2014 (competition)

Motovun Film Festival, Croatia, 2014 (Best Short Film)

Open Place Short Film Festival, Latvia, 2014 (competition)

11th Fresh Film Fest, Czech Republic, 2014 (competition)

Crested Butte International Film Festival, USA, 2014 (competition)

10th European Short Film Festival at MIT, USA, 2014 (competition)

Timishort Film Festival, Romania, 2014 (competition)

THESS International Short Film Festival Thessaloniki, Greece, 2014 (competition)

Berkeley Video & Film Festival, USA, 2014 (Student Visionary Award)

24. Cottbus Film Festival, Germany, 2014 (competition)

10th Early Bird Student Film Fest, Bulgaria, 2014 (Best Foreign Film, Special Mention for the Best Cinematography)

20th Kolkata International Film Festival, India, 2014 (competition)

29th Brest European Short Film Festival, France, 2014 (competition)

37th Denver Film Festival, USA, 2014 (competition)

17th Arpa International Film Festival, USA, 2014 (Best Short Film Award)

International Bosphorus Film Festival 2014, Turkey, 2014 (screening)

34th VGIK International Student Festival, Russia, 2014 (competition)

20th Short Film Festival Leuven, Belgium, 2014 (competition)

32nd Tous courts International Short Film Festival, France, 2014 (competition)

11th Kinoproba International Student Film Festival, Russia, 2014 (Best Fiction Student Film Award)

Anchorage International Film Festival 2014, USA, 2014 (competition)

17th International Festival of Short Film and Animation of Barcelona MECAL, Spain, 2015 (competition)

17th MECAL - International Festival of Short Film and Animation, Spain, 2015 (competition)

25th Mediawave International Film and Media Gathering, Hungary, 2015 (competition)

"Amirani" Tbilisi International Student Film Festival, Armenia, 2015 (competition)

Ningbo Film Festival, China, 2015 (screening)

The Student International Film Festival, Croatia, 2015 (competition)