THE PRINCESS AND THE WALL

KSIĘŻNICZKA I MUR

"What I’d most like to do is work in a… where women walk around in fashionable dresses. I’d like to be an actress. And I’d like to be gorgeous and for all the boys to be in love with me and for everybody to know who I am." Thus confides Kasia. She is six years old and has a copious imagination and an abundance of energy, dreams and plans. She is sharply observant of the world around her and very far indeed from naive. An intimate portrait of a little girl and the reality in which she is growing up.

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  • Genre: Dokumentalny
  • Country: Poland
  • Running time: 14
  • Year: 2012

Director: Małgorzata Kozera - Topińska

Script: Małgorzata Kozera - Topińska

DOP: Marta Stysiak

Music: Jan Duszyński

Editing: Urszula Rybicka

Production company: TVP S.A., Stowarzyszenie Filmowców Polskich - Studio Munka , Studio Filmowe KRONIKA

About the director:

Małgorzata Kozera - Topińska

Małgorzata Kozera - Topińska

Born in Warsaw, Poland. Studied Ethnology & Cultural Anthropology at the the Universities of Warsaw and Copenhagen and film directing at the Polish National Film School in Lodz. She is an author of several short documentaries and fictions, which have been broadly shown at Polish and international film festivals and in Polish National Television TVP SA. Małgorzata has cooperated the acclaimed Polish director Feliks Falk on his film “The Debt Collector” and worked as a director’s assistant in other productions. She has also directed audio recordings and conducted film workshops for disabled youths and for students participating in Polish International Youth Encounters program.

At festivals:

27th Mar del Plata International Film Festival, Argentina, 2012 (screening)

20th Camerimage, Poland, 2012 (screening)

22nd DokumentArt Film Festival, Germany, 2013 (competition)

Different ages, different voices: Polish Women in Film, USA, 2013 (screening)

17th Guanajuato International Film Festival, Mexico, 2014 (screening)

Children First: 1st Anthropo FF of Children and Youth, Slovenia, 2015 (competition)

1st International Film Festival for Children and Youth, Slovenia, 2015 (screening)