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Aneta rebelled at the age of 19. She went to prison for murder. Nine year later, while serving her sentence, she takes up a job of a carer. Every day she leaves the prison to go to the nursing home to look after Helena who suffers from rheumatism. By talking to the old lady Aneta realises how much she has in life and starts to believe in herself before the hard test which is ahead of her.

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  • Genre: Documentary
  • Country: Poland
  • Running time: 25
  • Year: 2014
  • Color: kolorowy

Director: Michał Szcześniak

Script: Michał Szcześniak, Katarzyna Bonda

DOP: Przemysław Niczyporuk

Editing: Jacek Tarasiuk, Daniel Gąsiorowski

Production company: Stowarzyszenie Filmowców Polskich - Studio Munka

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About the director:

Michał Szcześniak

Michał Szcześniak

director and screenwriter. In 2005, he won the best European screenplay award – NISIMASA European Script Contest. The film he directed, based on the script awarded by NISIMASA, “A Boat”, received an many awards in Poland and abroad and was screened at over 30 festivals. Szcześniak is the author of many screenplays such as “Goliath”, “The Dark Side Of The Light” and “The Captain” to name just a few. Szcześniak was also a columnist for o few Polish magazines. From 2010 he has been participating in the documentary course at Wajda School.

At festivals:

14th T-mobile New Horizons International Film Festival, Poland, 2014 (competition)

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

57th DOK. Leipzig, Germany, 2014 (competition)

22nd International Film Festival Camerimage, Poland, 2014 (Golden Frog — Grand Prix of Short Documentary Film Competition)

IDFA 2014, The Netherlands, 2014 (screening)

Sundance Film Festival, USA, 2015 (competition)

20th Vilnius International Film Festival, Lithuania , 2015 (competition)

Docudays UA, Ukraine, 2015 (Docu/Short Main Prize)

Florida Film Festival, USA, 2015 (competition)

Documenta Madrid, Spain, 2015 (Special Mention)

TRT Documentary Awards, Turkey, 2015 (competition)

Festival Al Este de Lima, Peru, 2015 (screening)

Sheffield Doc/Fest, UK, 2015 (Short Doc Award)

Encounters - 21st Short Film & Animation Festival, UK, 2015 (Honourable Mention)

28th Helsinki Intl' Film Festival - Love & Anarchy, Finland, 2015 (competition)

IDFF "Flahertiana", Russia, 2015 (screening)

Budapest International Documentary Festival, Hungary, 2015 (Special Mention)

7th Baghdad International Film Festival, Iraq, 2015 (screening)

24th dokumentART European Film festival for Documentaries, Germany , 2015 (screening)

Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival, USA, 2015 (competition)

Play Poland Film Festival, United Kingdom, 2015 (screening)

10th Miradas Doc - International Documentary Film Festival, Spain, 2015 (competition)

Vox Feminae Film Festival, Croatia, 2015 (competition)

Gold Panda Awards, China, 2015 (competition)

International Bosphorus FF 2015, Turkey, 2015 (competition)

GZDOC, China, 2015 (competition)

BOGOSHORTS - Bogota Short FF, Colombia, 2015 (competition)

"Cinema Verite" Iran International Documentary FF, Iran, 2015 (competition)

Asi FF, USA, 2016 (competition)

Newport Beach Film Festival 2016, USA, 2016 (competition)