I GREW UP AS YOU SLEPT

UROSŁAM KIEDY SPAŁAŚ

Karalina left Belarus, just like the overwhelming majority of her friends from music school. The lives of Belarussian intelligentsia members are portrayed in the form of a study of nostalgia – longing for their families, friends and the childhood they remember in idyllic colours. President Lukashenka declares on public television that there is a bright future ahead of the graduates of Belarussian schools, but the picture of the provinces seems to contradict this optimistic diagnosis. The only comfort is brought by a delivery truck with food, matches and vodka.

Genre: Documentary
Running time: 50
Year: 2018
Color: kolorowy

Director: Marcin Sauter

Script: Marcin Sauter

DOP: Marcin Sauter

Music: Karalina Orsik-Sauter

Editing: Katarzyna Orzechowska, Joanna Czapińska, Aliaksei Sobal, Bartłomiej Wezner

Production company: Fundacja Bydgoska Kronika Filmowa

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About the director:

Photographer, cinematographer and film director. Born in 1971 in Bydgoszcz. A member of the Association of Polish Art Photographers, he has had several dozen individual exhibitions of photography. He teaches at the Andrzej Wajda Master School of Film Directing. He established the foundation The Bydgoszcz Newsreel. His adventure with the cinema started in 1997 when he cooperated with Maciej Cuske on the feature film "What Do You Think About It, Gałuszko?". Then, he continued with such documentaries as "The Travelling Cinema" (2005), "North From Calabria" (2009) and "Hakawati" (2011).

At festivals:

58th Krakow Film Festival, Poland, 2018 (competition)

Camerimage International Film Festival, Poland, 2018 (screening)

Docudays UA International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival, Ukraine, 2019 (competition)

TRT Documentary Awards, Turkey, 2019 (competition)

Neisse Film Festival 2019, Germany, 2019 (competition)

Shanghai International Film & TV Festival 2019, China, 2019 (Best Documentary)

Documentarist 12th Istanbul Documentary Days, 2019 (competition)

International Human Rights FF Albania, 2019 (screening)

3rd West Lake International Documentary FF, China, 2019 (competition)