KILLING AUNTIE

ZABICIE CIOTKI

Jurek, who is twenty three, lives with his aunt who does her best to provide the boy with everything he may need. Tired by the stability and security of life under constant care, he decides to change his fate. To quiet down his aunt’s incessant jabbering he reaches for a hammer. The film, based on the unfinished novel ‘Killing Auntie’ by Andrzej Bursa, is a story about the need of deliverance, full of unobtrusive absurd and black humour.

FILM REPRESENTED BY THE KRAKOW FILM FOUNDATION

Genre: Fabularny
Country: Poland
Running time: 30
Year: 2013

Director: Mateusz Głowacki

Script: Mateusz Głowacki

DOP: Kacper Sędzielewski

Editing: Wojciech Janas

Sound: Bartosz Idzi

Production company: Wydział Radia i Telewizji Uniwersytetu Śląskiego w Katowicach (WRiTv UŚ)

About the director:

Born in 1982 in Brzeg Dolny (Poland). Student of Film Directing at the Radio and Television Department of Silesia University in Katowice. Author of over a dozen short films, including: “Richard” (2011), “When the lights of dawn arise” (2012), “Survey about women” (2012).

At festivals:

53rd Krakow Film Festival, Poland, 2013 (Special Mention)

13. T-mobile New Horizons, Poland, 2013 (competition)

18th BUSAN International Film Festival, Korea, 2013 (screening)

21st Camerimage International Film Festival, Poland, 2013 (competition)

20th Etiuda&Anima IFF, Poland, 2013 (Silver Dinosaur)

Premiers Plans Film Festival 2013, France, 2014 (competition)

19th Vilnius International Film Festival, Lithuania, 2014 (screening)

43rd HFF Konrad Wolf International Student Film Festival, Germany , 2014 (competition)

3rd Kyiv International Short Film Festival, Ukraine, 2014 (screening)

8th River Film Festival, Italy, 2014 (competition)

17th Ismailia IFF for Documentary & Shorts, Egypt, 2014 (competition)

FEST - New Directors New Films Festival in Espinho, Portugal, 2014 (screening)

49. Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, Czech Republic, 2014 (screening)

22nd Curtas vila do Conde International Short Film Festival, Portugal, 2014 (screening)

7th Lviv International Film Festival Wiz-Art., Ukraine, 2014 (Grand Prix)

20th Drama International Short Film Festival, Greece, 2014 (screening)

10th European Short Film Festival at MIT, USA, 2014 (competition)

12th International Short Film Festival Shnit, Switzerland, 2014 (competition)

30th Warsaw Film Festival, Poland, 2014 (screening)

7th La Cabina Intenational Medium Lenght Film Festival, Spain, 2014 (competition)

16th Bratislava International Film Festival, Slovakia, 2014 (screening)

34th Film School Fest Munich, Germany, 2014 (competition)

21st Etiuda & Anima International Film Festival, Poland , 2014 (screening)

37th Poitiers Film Festival, France, 2014 (competition)

32nd Tous courts International Short Film Festival, France, 2014 (Special Mention for the Best Actor)

17th MECAL - International Festival of Short Film and Animation, Spain, 2015 (competition)

7th Ljubljana International Short Film Festival 2015, Slovenia, 2015 (screening)

Leiden International Short Film Experience 2015, The Netherlands, 2015 (competition)

55th Zlin Film Festival, Czech Republic, 2015 (The Best Live-action Film)

Festival du Film de l'Ouest, France, 2015 (competition)

Summer Film School Uherske Hradiste 2015, Czech Republic, 2015 (screening)

7th Eastern Neighbours Film Festival, Holland, 2015 (competition)

11th Early Bird Student Film Festival, Bulgaria, 2015 (competition)

23rd IFF Camerimage, Poland, 2015 (screening)

Los Angeles International Culture Film Festival 2016, USA, 2016 (competition)

iShorts Screenings, The Czech Republic, 2016 (competition)

Semana del Cortometraje de la Comunidad de Madrid, Spain, 2016 (screening)

17th Tbilisi International Film Festival, Georgia, 2016 (screening)

44th Summer Film School Uherske Hradiste, The Czech Republic, 2018 (screening)