HANOI-WARSAW

HANOI-WARSZAWA

A young Vietnamese girl comes to Poland through the green border. She has to get to Warsaw where her fiancé and a better life are waiting for her… A journey through Poland is the hell of humiliation and violence. The girl escapes her brutal carriers and penniless, not knowing the language she tries to get to Warsaw. Yet her fiancé is locked up in a deportation arrest. Lonely and desperate, Ahn has to decide – to report herself to the police and risk the deportation or to fight for survival…

FILM REPRESENTED BY THE KRAKOW FILM FOUNDATION

Genre: Fabularny
Country: Polska
Running time: 28
Year: 2009

Director: Katarzyna Klimkiewicz

Script: Katarzyna Klimkiewicz

DOP: Andrzej Wojciechowski

Music: Marzena Majcher

Editing: Andrzej Dąbrowski

Production company: Kino Polska TV

About the director:

Katarzyna is a graduate from the Polish Film School in Lodz and alumni of the Binger Film Lab in Amsterdam. Her documentary Wasserschlacht – The Great Border Battle co-directed with Andrew Friedman was awarded Berlin Today Award during Berlinale 2007. Her short film Hanoi-Warszawa won many Polish and International awards and was voted the Best Short of 2010 by the European Film Academy. Her debut feature film Flying Blind premiered in Edinburgh International Film Festival in 2012 where it has been nominated for the prestigious Michael Powell Award. The film received three Awards (Grand Prix, Best Director, Critics Award) at the Polish Festival of First Films in Koszalin and was released cinematically in the UK and in Poland in 2013. She is a member of the European Film Academy, for many years she was also a president of Film 1,2 Association, which supports young filmmakers in Poland.

fot. Jarosław Pietrzak

At festivals:

8th KINOTEKA Polish Film Festival, London, 2010 (screening)

Go Short - International Short Film Festival Nijmegen, The Netherlands, 2010 (competition)

NexT International Short and Medium Length Film Festival, Romania, 2010 (competition)

Short Film Corner, France, 2010 (screening)

Norwegian Short Film Festival, Norway, 2010 (competition)

Sarajevo Film Festival, Bosnia & Herzegovina, 2010 (screening)

DOKUFEST, The International Documentary and Short Film Festival, Kosovo, 2010 (competition)

Odense Film Festival, Denmark, 2010 (competition)

Batumi International Art-House Film Festival — BIAFF, Georgia, 2010 (Best Film - Young Filmmakers Competition Section)

International Cinematographers' Film Festival Manaki Brothers, Macedonia, 2010 (screening)

Festival de Boca del Lobo, Spain, 2010 (screening)

FilmFestival Cottbus, Germany, 2010 (EY 2010 Special Award)

Asiana International Short Film Festival (AISFF), Korea, 2010 (competition)

Sevilla Festival de Cine Europeo, Spain, 2010 (screening)

ALCINE - Festival de Cine de Alcalá de Henares / Comunidad de Madrid, 2010 (First Prize)

26th International Short Film Festival interfilm Berlin, 2010 (screening)

MyEurope Film Festival, Germany, 2010 (screening)

Student and Short Film Festival Sleepwalkers, Estonia, 2010 (screening)

6th Prague Short Film Festival, Czech Republic, 2011 (screening)

22nd Trieste Film Festival, Italy, 2011 (competition)

Academia de Cine, Spain, 2011 (screening)

Docedge Kolkata - The Asian Forum for New Documentary, India, 2011 (screening)

Sofia International Film Festival, Bulgaria, 2011 (screening)

Tampere International Short Film Festival, Finland, 2011 (screening)

Minimalen Short Film Festival, Norway, 2011 (screening)

"MADE IN EUROPE" at Werkstatt der Kulturen/Berlin, 2011 (screening)

33rd Festival International de Films de Femmes de Créteil, France, 2011 (competition)

8. Festival Du Cinema De Brive, France, 2011 (screening)

NexT Film Festival, Romania, 2011 (screening)

23. Filmfest Dresden, Germany, 2011 (screening)

Festival del Cinema Europeo, Italy, 2011 (screening)

FilmPOLSKA, Germany, 2011 (screening)

Lanzarote Short Film Festival, Spain, 2011 (competition)

Eurocine – Festival de Cine Europeo en Colombia, 2011 (screening)

Brussels Short Film Festival, Belgium, 2011 (screening)

5th International Inter-University SFF, Bangladesh, 2011 (screening)

Almaty International Film Festival “Shaken’s Stars-2011”, Kazakhstan, 2011 (competition)

VIS Vienna Independent Shorts, Austria, 2011 (screening)

Mediawave "Another Connection" International Film and Music Festival, Hungary, 2011 (competition)

Festroia International Film Festival, Portugal, 2011 (screening)

Tabor Film Festival, Croatia, 2011 (screening)

Kortfilmfestivalen Grimstad, Norway, 2011 (screening)

Nantucket Film Festival, USA, 2011 (screening)

Jerusalem Film Festival, Israel, 2011 (screening)

Helsinki International Film Festival "Love & Anarchy", Finland, 2011 (screening)

ARTos Foundation, Cyprus, 2011 (screening)

Drama International Short Film Festival, Greece, 2011 (screening)

Nordisk Panorama - 5 Cities Film Festival, Aarhus, Denmark, 2011 (screening)

9. Festival International Signes de Nuit, France, 2011 (screening)

Panorama of European Cinema, Greece, 2011 (screening)

Uppsala International Short Film Festival, Sweden, 2011 (screening)

filmfest Braunschweig, Germany, 2011 (screening)

Scanorama European Film Forum, Lithuania, 2011 (screening)

exground filmfest, Germany, 2011 (screening)

Alcine Festival de Cine, Alcalá de Henares, Spain, 2011 (screening)

Arcipelago International Festival of Short Films and New Images, Italy, 2012 (screening)

FicBueu, Spain, 2012 (competition)

Reikäreuna Film Festival, Finland, 2012 (screening)

Play Poland Film Festival, travelling, 2012 (screening)

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

HOPE - screening of Polish short films in Huddersfield, UK, 2013 (screening)

5th LISFF, Slovenia, 2013 (screening)

31st Festival Tous Courts -Aix en Provence, France , 2013 (screening)

Friss Hus Budapest Short Film Festival, Hungary, 2014 (screening)

27th FilmFestival Cottbus, Germany, 2017 (screening)

4th ARCIPELAGO | International Festival of Short Films and New Images, Italy, 2017 (screening)