TO FLY OR NOT TO FLY

LECIEĆ, NIE LECIEĆ

The singular beauty of wild nature is hard to understand. Working in thickets on a thin strip of land between the sea and the lake, bird researchers try to at least describe it setting off on their expeditions regardless of bad weather and difficult conditions.

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  • Genre: Dokumentalny
  • Country: Poland
  • Running time: 18
  • Year: 2013

Director: Aniela Gabryel

Script: Aniela Gabryel

DOP: Zuzanna Pyda

Editing: Katarzyna Boniecka

Production company: PWSFTviT (Państwowa Wyższa Szkoła Filmowa, Telewizyjna i Teatralna)

About the director:

Aniela Gabryel

Aniela Gabryel

Film director, writer, a graduate of Film Directing at Polish National Film School in Lodz and of Theatre studies at Jagiellonian University. Her short films have been screened and awarded at numerous festivals in Poland and around the world. Her full-length documentary debut When Will This Wind Stop was screened and recognized at many film festivals, including an award at IDFA in 2016. Currently she is finishing her feature fiction debut and starting to work on new film projects.

Filmography:

2023 – Different paths to holiness

2023 – Radical Move

2016 – When Will This Wind Stop

2016 – Constellations

2014 – Trouvellin

2013 – To fly or not to fly

2011 – Quantum Fluctuations

2011 – Stone Knights

2011 – The Hut on Chicken Legs

At festivals:

DOXA - Documentary Film Festival, Canada, 2014 (competition)

VIS Vienna Independent Shorts Film Festival in Vienna, Austria, 2014 (Vienna Short Film Award for Best Fiction/Documentary Film)

XIV International Documentary Film Festival «Flahertiana», Russia, 2014 (competition)

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

31st Tehran Short Film Festival, Iran, 2014 (competition)

7th Annual Imagine Science Film Festival, USA, 2014 (screening)

Aljazeera International Documentary Film Festival, Qatar, 2014 (competition)

8 th "Cinema Verite" Iran IDFF, Iran, 2014 (screening)

Bergamo Film Meeting 2015, Italy, 2015 (competition)

23rd Boskovice Festival, Czech Republic, 2015 (competition)

Ningbo Film Festival, China, 2015 (screening)

6th Iran International Green FF, Iran, 2017 (competition)