CALLS

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The emergency call center 112 receives numerous phone calls every day. The operators take care of and connect with various outside situations as well as within the office, meanwhile setting boundaries and dealing with their own emotions.

  • Genre: Documentary
  • Country: Poland
  • Running time: 18
  • Year: 2022
  • Color: colour

Director: Ming-Wei Chiang

Script: Ming-Wei Chiang

DOP: Oskar Król

Editing: Barbara Fronc

Sound: Lucyna Wielopolska-Lorenc

Production company: Państwowa Wyższa Szkoła Filmowa, Telewizyjna i Teatralna

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About the director:

Ming-Wei Chiang

Ming-Wei Chiang

MING-WEI CHIANG is a Poland-based Taiwanese filmmaker born in Taipei. After studying Fine-Art & Design he turned to fiction and documentary filmmaking, directing several self-produced short films and participating in the art department in the feature-length film, “Stray Dogs“, directed by Tsai Ming-Liang before entering the Polish National Film School in Łódź, Poland. His short films have been shown at film festivals in Poland and abroad. He obtained his MA degree in Directing in 2022.

Filmography:

2013 – Frog
2018 – A Short Film about sadness
2019 – Square of freedom
2020 – Flashlights
2022 – Calls
2022 – Warsaw, Netherlands

At festivals:

47th Hong Kong International Film Festival, Hong Kong, 2023 (competition)

19th FEST|New Directors, New Films Festival, Portugal, 2023 (competition)

XXXVII Pärnu Film Festival 2023, Estonia, 2023 (The best student docs)

18th SHORTS MÉXICO - Festival Internacional de Cortometrajes de México, Mexico, 2023 (competition)

23. Un Festival C’est Trop Court 2023, France, 2023 (competition)

2023 Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival, Taiwan, 2023 (screening)

68th Cork International Film Festival, Ireland, 2023 (Grand Prix Documentary Short Award)

35th Aguilar Film Festival, Spain, 2023 (screening)

21st Bogotá Short Film Festival BOGOSHORTS, Colombia, 2023 (competition)

18th Pragueshorts Film Festival, Czech Republic, 2024 (competition)

International Film Festival Febiofest Bratislava 2024, Slovakia, 2024 (competition)

71st Martovski Film Festival, Serbia, 2024 (competition)

7th Ravno Selo Film Festival 2024, Serbia, 2024 (Best documentary film)

Monstrale - International Short Film Festival Halle 2024, Germany, 2024 (competition)