TWO STEPS BEHIND…

DWA KROKI ZA...

"And so begins that which I do not know, that whose further fate is unknown to me, for how can I know?
…Just as one can’t see the end of the wide water while standing on its shore…". Edward Stachura (Cała jaskrawość/All That Brightness). Two Steps Behind… is a story of a farmer’s family, and its main theme are partings, returns and goodbyes. It is a musical animated impression, which evidently refers to the issue of emigration, and is an attempt at answering the question "why?". Why did I decide to leave my home, my street, my place, my country?

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  • Genre: Animowany
  • Country: Polska
  • Running time: 8
  • Year: 2009

Director: Paulina Majda

Script: Paulina Majda

Production company: TVP Kultura, Stowarzyszenie Filmowców Polskich - Studio Munka

About the director:

Paulina Majda

Graduate of the Polish National Film, Television and Theatre School in Lodz, specialisation: animation. Costume designer, painter, stills photographer, lecturer. She has made several original animated short films, shown and awarded at festivals in Poland and abroad (among others in Annecy, Gdynia, Koszalin, London, Melbourne, Paris, Poznan, Seoul, Trebon, in Italy). Her film Tango was screened on TV channels: Canal+, Kino Polska, Wien TV. She was among winners of the competition for the best painting debut "Tolerance". Holder of a scholarship from the Minister of Culture. In 2005/06 she worked as assistant set designer and stills photographer on Peter and the Wolf, an animated film by Suzie Templeton, which won the Oscar in 2007. 

At festivals:

Annecy, France, 2011 (competition)

Palm Springs International ShortFest, USA, 2011 (screening)

5th River Film Festival, Italy, 2011 (competition)

11th Era New Horizons International Film Festival, Poland, 2011 (competition)

5. International Animation Festival ANIMANIMA, Serbia, 2011 (competition)

CutOut Fest, Mexico, 2011 (competition)

Vilnius Film Shorts, Lithuania, 2011 (competition)

Un Festival C'est Trop Court! Le Festival du Court Métrage de Nice, France, 2011 (screening)

BANJALUKA 2011 International Animated Film Festival, 2011 (competition)

European Short Filmfestival Cologne UNLIMITED #5, Germany, 2011 (competition)

ZINEBI 53 International Festival of Documentary and Short Films of Bilbao, Spain, 2011 (competition)

Animation Film Festival Animated Dreams, Estonia, 2011 (competition)

Animateka Animated Film Festival, Slovenia, 2011 (competition)

Tricky Woman Film Festival, Austria, 2012 (competition)

10th Tabor Film Festival, Croatia, 2012 (screening)

Hiroshima International Animation Festival, Japan, 2012 (screening)

Ars Independent International Film Festival, Poland, 2012 (competition)

31st Fajr International Film Festival, Iran, 2013 (screening)

31st Festival Tous Courts -Aix en Provence, France , 2013 (screening)

13th Countryside Animafest Cyprus – Views of the World, Cyprus, 2014 (screening)