FENCES

PŁOTY

A bird in a cage, a toddler in a playpen, two dogs on either side of a fence. Partitions of various sorts accompany our lives from the beginning to the end. Each of us deals with them in their own way. Does it really make sense to separate ourselves from our neighbours with a wall? The film is a reflection on the role of “fences” in our lives.  The real ones as much as those which exist in our minds.

  • Genre: Animated
  • Country: Poland
  • Running time: 7
  • Year: 2015
  • Color: kolorowy

Director: Natalia Krawczuk

Script: Natalia Krawczuk

DOP: Natalia Krawczuk

Music: Tsering Tobgyal

Editing: Magdalena Chowańska

Sound: Ewa Bogusz

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

About the director:

Natalia Krawczuk

Natalia Krawczuk

graduated from the faculty of Ethnology and Anthropology of Culture at the Warsaw University and the faculty of Animation and FX at Lodz Film School. In between studies she worked in PR agency and several public cultural institutions. Now continues studying at the PhD studies at the Lodz Film School and works as a freelance animator.

At festivals:

15th T-Mobile New Horizons IFF, Poland, 2015 (competition)

13th Fantoche - International Animation Film Festival, Switzerland, 2015 (competition)

Balkanima 2015, Serbia, 2015 (competition)

58th International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film, Germany , 2015 (screening)

17th European Film Festival en Essone Cinessone, France, 2015 (competition)

22nd IFF Etiuda&Anima, Poland, 2015 (competition)

12th Animateka International Animation Festival, Slovenia, 2015 (competition)

Premiers Plans Film Festival, France, 2016 (screening)

17th Aubagne International Film Festival, France, 2016 (competition)

33rd Environmental International Film Festival, France, 2016 (competition)

28th Filmfest Dresden, Germany, 2016 (screening)

ANIFILM 2016, Czech Republic, 2016 (competition)

25th Film Festival Mecklenburg-Vorpommern in Schwerin, Germany, 2016 (competition)

Melbourne International Animation Festival 2016, Australia, 2016 (competition)

Giffoni Experience Film Festival 2016, Italy, 2016 (Amnesty International Award)

12th Lago Film Fest 2016, Italy, 2016 (screening)

Take One Action Film Festival 2016, United Kingdom, 2016 (screening)

12th Reykjavik International Film Festival, Iceland, 2016 (screening)

15th Fete du Cinema d'Animation, France, 2016 (screening)

REX Animation Film Festival 2016, Sweden, 2016 (competition)

Andorra Kids Film Festival 2016, Andorra, 2016 (competition)

28th Istanbul International Short Film Festival, Turkey, 2016 (competition)

29th Premiers Plans Film Festival, France, 2017 (screening)

Tricky Women International Animation Filmfestival 2017, Austria, 2017 (competition)

18th Festival International du Film d'Aubagne, France, 2017 (screening)

LET’S CEE Film Festival, Austria, 2017 (screening)

Encounters - 23rd Short Film & Animation Festival, UK, 2017 (screening)

1st ReAnima Film Festival, Norway, 2017 (competition)

1st Hancheng International Short Film Festival, China, 2017 (competition)

Monstronale International Short Film Festival 2018, Germany, 2018 (screening)

34th Leeds International Film Festival, UK, 2020 (screening)