ARIA DIVA

Basia (30) has already settled down in her life. She is a housewife and has a loving family. It seems as though she does not miss anything to be happy. Until a moment when an opera diva moves into an apartment upstairs.
Basia is enchanted and seduced with her voice. A peculiar relationship is born between them. It develops into a feeling which is not particularly comfortable for either of the two women.

FILM REPRESENTED BY THE KRAKOW FILM FOUNDATION

  • Genre: Fabularny
  • Country: Polska
  • Running time: 30
  • Year: 2007

Director: Agnieszka Smoczyńska

Script: Robert Bolesto

DOP: Przemysław Kamiński

Editing: Wojciech Jagiełło

Production company: Mistrzowska Szkoła Reżyserii Filmowej Andrzeja Wajdy (obecnie: Wajda Studio), Stowarzyszenie Filmowców Polskich - Studio Munka

About the director:

Agnieszka Smoczyńska

Agnieszka Smoczyńska

A graduate of the history of art at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan (2001), cultural studies at the University of Wroclaw (2002), directing at the Krzysztof Kieślowski Radio and Television Department at the Silesia University in Katowice (2005) and the Andrzej Wajda Master School of Film Directing in Warsaw (2006). The author of short fiction and documentary films: Guanipa (2003), Kapelusz (2003), 3 Love (2004), Orphans (2005), Article 567 (2006). A laureate of many festival awards.

At festivals:

Message to Man - International Short and Documentary Film Festival, 2008 (competition)

12th Ismalia International Festival For Documentary & Short Films, Egypt, 2008 (competition)

2nd Seoul International Family Film Festival, Korea, 2008 (competition)

ALCINE - Festival de Cine de Alcalá de Henares / Comunidad de Madrid, 2008 (competition)

Festival Al. Este de Lima, Peru, 2008 (screening)

Brest European Short Film Festival, 2008 (competition)

GZDOC, Guaghzou, China, 2008 (screening)

Eastern Europe short film night in Redon, France, 2009 (screening)

FESTIVAL INTERNATIONAL DE FILMS DE FEMMES DE CRETEIL, 2009 (competition)

Polish Film Festival – Journey to Poland, Bristol, UK, 2009 (screening)

Roze Filmdagen, the Amsterdam Gay & Lesbian Film Festival, 2011 (screening)

KINOTEKA - 9th Polish Film Festival, London, UK, 2011 (screening)

“Golden Apricot” 8th Yerevan Film Festival, Armenia, 2011 (screening)

Play Poland Film Festival, travelling, 2012 (screening)

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

2nd Central European Film Festival V4, Turkey, 2016 (screening)

Central European Film Festival V4 in Izmir, Turkey, 2017 (screening)

Edinburgh International FF, UK, 2017 (screening)