NORTH FROM CALABRIA

NA PÓŁNOC OD KALABRII

The film is an attempt to create a place – a town, where living is easy. Where people know each other, tolerate their faults, meet each other to talk and just be together. Making of this film was a kind of a happening. Actors and outside people moved into a small Silesian town and along with its inhabitants they were organizing a big fest. In a confined space of market and a few small streets working, talking and spending time together has dominated life of Chełmsko Śląskie. For one summer month Chełmsko has become a decoration in the film about an ideal town. 

FILM REPRESENTED BY THE KRAKOW FILM FOUNDATION
 

  • Genre: Dokumentalny
  • Country: Polska
  • Running time: 67
  • Year: 2009

Director: Marcin Sauter

Script: Marcin Sauter

DOP: Radosław Ładczuk, Łukasz Gutt

Music: Maciej Cieślak

Editing: Agnieszka Glińska

Production company: Stowarzyszenie Filmowców Polskich - Studio Munka

About the director:

Marcin Sauter

Marcin Sauter

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:

X International Documentary Film Festival FLAHERTIANA, Russia, 2010 (Special Jury Mention)

International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film - DOK Leipzig, Germany, 2010 (Trade Union ver. Di award)

FilmFestival Cottbus, Germany, 2010 (screening)

16th MedFilm Festival, Italy, 2010 (competition)

PLUS CAMERIMAGE 2010 - International Film Festival Of The Art Of Cinematography, Poland, 2010 (competition)

13th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival, Greece, 2011 (screening)

Underhillfest, Montenegro, 2011 (competition)

Euganea Film Festival, Italy, 2011 (competition)

“Golden Apricot” 8th Yerevan Film Festival, Armenia, 2011 (screening)

Batumi International Art House Film Festival, Georgia, 2011 (screening)

DOKUFEST, Kosovo, 2012 (screening)