BOYS WITH BUTTERFLIES

CHŁOPCY Z MOTYLKAMI

15-year-old Filip gets beaten up on a footbridge close to his neighbourhood. To retaliate, his father rents a billboard in the middle of the housing estate with the information about a reward for helping to find the thugs. He starts a local war, which Filip does not want to be
part of. A simple coming-of-age story inspired by true events from the reportage „Boys with Butterflies” by Jacek Hugo-Bader.

  • Genre: Live action
  • Country: Poland
  • Running time: 28
  • Year: 2018
  • Color: kolorowy

Director: Marcin Filipowicz

Script: Marcin Filipowicz

DOP: Mateusz Skalski

Editing: Magdalena Chowańska

Production company: Studio Munka

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About the director:

Marcin Filipowicz

Marcin Filipowicz

Born in 1985. Since 2007 he has been studying Film Directing at the Radio and Television Faculty of Silesia University in Katowice. He combines film studies with his other passions – travelling and photography. He has received numerous awards at national film festivals for 7109 km, a film about a young boy’s journey from Poland to Irkutsk (2008).

At festivals:

34th Warsaw Film Festival, Poland, 2018 (Special Mention)

21st Ismailia Film Festival 2019, Egypt, 2019 (screening)

18th DokuFest International Documentary and Short Film Festival, Kosovo, 2019 (competition)

Copenhagen Short Film Festival 2019, Denmark, 2019 (competition)