GORAN THE CAMEL MAN

Goran the Camel Man – a short documentary film about the ordinary life of an extraordinary wanderer. Goran, or Roland Charles, is a Swiss who travels around his gipsy caravan together with his dogs, goats and camel following the route of the legendary Silk Road. For almost 30 years he has been living his dream. He has traversed Mongolia, Iran, Turkey, Italy, France and more. The film was shot in Georgia and presents a fragment of his unusual life.

Genre: Documentary
Country: Polska
Running time: 17
Year: 2016
Color: kolorowy

Director: Marcin Lesisz

Script: Edyta Zajdlic, Marcin Lesisz

DOP: Marcin Lesisz

Editing: Edyta Zajdlic

Production company: Stowarzyszenie Lubińska Grupa Filmowa Uisel Studio

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About the director:

Graduate of the Cinematography Department of the Krzysztof Kieślowski Film School in Katowice. His auteur film Goran The Camel Man was screened at national and international film festivals. Producer and cinematographer of the short feature film Ricochets. As a cinematographer and camera oeprator, he worked on commercial videos, documentary films, reportages, and TV series for TVN, Canal + and TVP.

Filmography:

2016 – Przystań

2015 – Goran The Camel Man

At festivals:

Parnu Film Festival, Estonia, 2016 (Best Short Doc)

16th T-Mobile New Horizons IFF, Poland, 2016 (The Best Film in Zoom Comeptition)

32nd Warsaw Film Festival, Poland, 2016 (screening)

Szczecin European Film Award, Poland, 2016 (Award for the best film in Polish Competition)

24th International Film Festival Camerimage, Poland, 2016 (competition)

Hot Docs, Canada, 2017 (competition)

MEDIAWAVE – “ANOTHER CONNECTION” International Film and Music Gathering, Hungary, 2017 (competition)

14th Neisse Film Festival, Germany, 2017 (competition)

CineDoc Tbilisi, Georgia, 2017 (competition)

AFI DOCS, USA, 2017 (competition)

34th Tehran International Short Film Festival, Iran, 2017 (competition)

Festival of Migrant Film in Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2018 (competition)