THE WHISTLE

GWIZDEK

Marcin is a young man that comes from a small village near Krakow. The film pictures him from three perspectives – his private life, his work life and his hobby – which is football. In each of these fields he seems to be quite clumsy. He doesn’t rush his way towards adulthood – which his mother doesn’t approve of. She expects him to make life-changing decisions, finding a better job and a wife. Marcin is also a burgeoning football referee – every week he has to bear unrefined comments and remarks about his work, made by players and fans alike of amateur teams.

FILM REPRESENTED BY KRAKOW FILM FOUNDATION

  • Genre: Dokumentalny
  • Country: Poland
  • Running time: 16
  • Year: 2012

Director: Grzegorz Zariczny

Script: Grzegorz Zariczny

DOP: Weronika Bilska

Editing: Katarzyna Leśniak

Production company: Stowarzyszenie Filmowców Polskich - Studio Munka , Full Film Service

About the director:

Grzegorz Zariczny

Grzegorz Zariczny

Born in 1983. He graduated from the Faculty of Radio and Television at the University of Silesia in Katowice and a documentary course at the Andrzej Wajda Master School of Film Directing where he made his documentary debut The Dog Hill (2010) awarded in Poland and abroad. He has directed the feature film study Our Bad Winter (2012, Special Award at the Young Cinema Competition at the Gdynia Film Festival) and The Whistle (2012), a documentary which won the Grand Prix of the Sundance Festival.

At festivals:

T-Mobile New Horizons International Film Festival 2012, Poland, 2012 (competition)

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

20th Camerimage, Poland, 2012 (screening)

Sundance Film Festival 2013, USA, 2013 (Grand Jury Prize)

True/False International Documentary Film Festival, USA, 2013 (competition)

18th Vilnius International Film Festival, Lithuania, 2013 (Best Short Film)

10th International Football Film Festival, Germany, 2013 (competition)

20th Febiofest International Film Festival, Slovakia, 2013 (Best Short Film)

10th Docudays, Ukraine, 2013 (competition)

14th Dawson City International Short Film Festival, Canada, 2013 (competition)

It's All True - 18th International Documentary Film, Brasil, 2013 (competition)

Florida Film Festival, USA, 2013 (competition)

44th Nashville Film Festival, USA, 2013 (competition)

8. Filmfestival FILM POLSKA Berlin, Germany, 2013 (screening)

Sundance London Film and Music Festival, UK, 2013 (competition)

10th Documenta Madrid, Spain, 2013 (First Prize of the Jury)

Reykjavik Shorts&Docs Festival 2013, Iceland, 2013 (screening)

Berkshire International Film Festival, USA, 2013 (competition)

11th Gdańsk Doc Film Festival, Poland, 2013 (competition)

11th Tabor Film Festival, Croatia, 2013 (competition)

Open City Docs Fest 2013, UK, 2013 (Best Short Documentary)

New Zealand Film Festival 2013, New Zealand, 2013 (competition)

16th Guanajuato International Film Festival, Mexico, 2013 (competition)

Cinema City International Film Festival, Serbia, 2013 (competition)

Tenerife Shorts 2013, Spain , 2013 (competition)

12th St. Petersburg International Festival of Debut and Student Films Beginning, Russia, 2013 (competition)

29th Warsaw Film Festival, Poland, 2013 (screening)

43nd Molodist International Film Festival, Ukraine, 2013 (Special Mention)

8th DOCSDF 2013, Meksyk, 2013 (competition)

27th Leeds International Film Festival, UK, 2013 (screening)

55th ZINEBI International Festival of Documentary and Short Film of Bilbao, Spain, 2013 (Golden Mikeldi for Documentary)

2013 Sleepwalkers International Film Festival, Estonia, 2013 (competition)

11th London Short Film Festival, UK, 2014 (competition)

Friss Hus Budapest Short Film Festival, Hungary, 2014 (screening)

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

8th Ciné Privé Film Festival, Belgium, 2015 (screening)

IDFF "Flahertiana", Russia, 2015 (screening)

22nd International Short Film Week Regensburg, Germany, 2016 (screening)

DOCfeed International Documentary Festival Eindhoven, The Netherlands, 2017 (screening)

Bogotá Short Film Festival BOGOshorts, Colombia, 2017 (screening)

Film Festival Film Night at the Castle 2018, Slovakia, 2018 (screening)

Festival de Finos Filmes, Brazil, 2019 (screening)