IN TOUCH

In Touch is a film about people from Stare Juchy, a village located in north‑east Poland, where one third of the inhabitants emigrated to Iceland. In a visual journey, the film allows those families divided by huge distance a chance for a vague moment to reunite and become one again. By using sound from everyday Skype conversations In Touch also explores the relations between those who migrated and those who are left behind.

  • Genre: Documentary
  • Running time: 60
  • Year: 2018
  • Color: kolorowy

Director: Paweł Ziemilski

Script: Paweł Ziemilski

DOP: Filip Drożdż, Asta Julia Gudjonsdottir

Editing: Dorota Wardęszkiewicz

Production company: TVP SA, NUR, Join Motion Pictures

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About the director:

Paweł Ziemilski

Paweł Ziemilski

 

Born in 1981, graduated from the the Łódź National Film School and from the Wajda School in Warsaw. Short documentary and fiction films he made so far received wide publicity at numerous film festivals around the world and got many prestigious awards. His documentary "Rogalik’ got IDFA nomination in 2012. It has also been shown and awarded at festivals such as Zagreb Dox, Alcine Festival (First Prize), festivals in Oberhausen, Beijing, Bucharest, Cracow and others. Apart from directing, Paweł Ziemilski is involved in social animation, organizing workshops for so-called troubled youth.

At festivals:

IDFA, The Netherlands, 2018 (The IDFA Special Jury Award for Mid-Length Documentary)

21st Thessaloniki Documentary Festival, Greece, 2019 (Human Values Award)

One World IHR Documentary FF, Czech Republic, 2019 (competition)

Skjadborg Film Festival 2019, Iceland, 2019 (Grand Jury Prize)

XXXIII Pärnu Film Festival in Pärnu, Estonia, 2019 (competition)

IceDocs, Iceland, 2019 (competition)

Message to Man IFF 2019, Russia, 2019 (screening)

Flahertiana - IDFF, Russia, 2019 (competition)

Inconvenient Films IDHRFF, Lithuania, 2019 (competition)

Astra Film Festival, Romania, 2019 (competition)

Riga International Film Festival, Latvia, 2019 (competition)

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

Valladolid International FF, Spain, 2019 (competition)

DOK Leipzig 2019, Germany, 2019 (competition)

Nordische Filmtage Lübeck, Germany, 2019 (competition)

Listapad IFF, Belarus, 2019 (competition)

Cottbus Film Festival, Germany, 2019 (screening)

Eastern Neighbours Film Festival, The Netherlands, 2019 (competition)

Camerimage IFF, Poland, 2019 (competition)

15th FilmPOLSKA Festival, Germany, 2020 (competition)

21st IFF ETNOFILM Čadca, Slovakia, 2020 (competition)

West Lake International Documentary Festival, China, 2023 (screening)