THE OPTIMIST

OPTIMISTA

Mateusz is eight years old and he’s just started a sailing course for young beginners. He takes to the sea in his one-person, Optimist dinghy, hauling sail himself and taking the tiller himself. And fighting. Fighting the untamed waves of the Baltic and, first and foremost … fighting his own fear. Learning to sail is a tough, character-building venture. Can Mateusz succeed in conquering his weaknesses? Face up to the first test of his life? And pass it, all flags flying?

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  • Genre: Dokumentalny
  • Country: Poland
  • Running time: 44
  • Year: 2013

Director: Kryspin Pluta

Script: Kryspin Pluta

DOP: Kryspin Pluta, Wojciech Ostrowski

Editing: Dominik Jagodziński

Production company: Darek Dikti Biuro Pomysłów

Trailer

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About the director:

Kryspin Pluta

Kryspin Pluta

A graduate of sociology at the Faculty of Social Sciences and of the Krzysztof Kieślowski Radio and Television Department of the Silesia University in Katowice, a student of the Andrzej Wajda Master School of Film Directing. A director of documentaries (among others Wyspa Wiktorii), journalist, film stills photographer. The author of the exhibition ‘Photographs from Macedonia’. The organizer of the 3rd edition of the Węgiel Student Film Festival. A volunteer of the Peaceful Patrol of the Great Orchestra of Christmas Charity Foundation.