SURVIVE AFGHANISTAN

PRZEŻYĆ AFGANISTAN

Five professional soldiers (one of them a woman) set out for the war in Afghanistan as part of the Polish contingent in NATO. They are to spend ‘only half a year’ in Afghanistan, yet when they say goodbye to their families they do not realize what is awaiting them. Their stay in a military base in the Ghazni province will be an extreme experience verifying their notion of heroism. The return to the civilian reality will not be easy either, since the war leaves its mark on people and is addictive. 

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  • Genre: Dokumentalny
  • Running time: 70
  • Year: 2012

Director: Małgorzata Imielska

Script: Małgorzata Imielska

DOP: Jan Paweł Trzaska

Music: Michał Lorenc

Editing: Adam Kwiatek

Production company: Studio Filmowe Kalejdoskop

About the director:

Małgorzata Imielska

Małgorzata Imielska

Film director and screenwriter. Graduate of Film and Television Directing at the Faculty of Radio and Television of the University of Silesia in Katowice. Her documentaries focus primarily on World War II and the Holocaust. She also directs television theatre performances. Her most important awards, gained in Huston, Krakow and Canton, among others, were in recognition of her documentary Tell Me Why (2006). Currently, she is developing her feature-length documentary Love and Empty Words.

At festivals:

13th Annual Polish Film Festival, USA, 2012 (competition)

24. Polish Film Festival in America, 2012 (screening)

DocsDF 2012, Mexico, 2012 (competition)

20th Camerimage, Poland, 2012 (competition)

5th Dokubazaar, Slovenia, 2013 (screening)

20th Minsk International Film Festival Listapad, Belarus, 2013 (screening)