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What are the limits of personal sacrifice? How much responsibility can one person take on? The film tells the story of a match factory worker who takes up a remarkable challenge. We observe several crucial months in her life, as she attempts to turn her dreams into reality. It’s the story of extraordinary transformation, and of a love that gives her life meaning.

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  • Genre: Documentary
  • Country: Poland
  • Running time: 40
  • Year: 2014
  • Color: kolorowy

Director: Paweł Łoziński

Script: Paweł Łoziński

DOP: Paweł Łoziński, Wojciech Staroń

Editing: Dorota Wardęszkiewicz

Production company: Łoziński Production

Trailer

About the director:

Paweł Łoziński

Paweł Łoziński

Born in 1965 in Warsaw. Polish director, cameraman and producer of documentaries. Graduate of the Directing Department at the Film School in Łódź. Author of more than 20 award-winning documentaries. He makes distinct and emotionally charged films about people of whom he draws intimate portraits. Łoziński gained international recognition with his documentary debut „Birthplace” (1992). His next films „Sisters”, „Chemo”, „Father and Son”, „You Have No Idea How Much I Love You” and the latest „TheBalcony Movie” are considered innovative as they venture into new thematic areas and exploreuncharted spaces within the documentary film genre.
fot. Piotr Jaxa

At festivals:

54th Krakow Film Festival, Poland, 2014 (Maciej Szumowski Award )

Polish Film Festival in America, 2014 , 2014 (competition)

22nd International Film Festival Camerimage, Poland, 2014 (competition)

Festival dei Popoli - International Documentary FF, Italy, 2014 (screening)

14th International Film Festival Watch Docs, Poland, 2014 (screening)

11th Zagreb Dox, Croatia, 2015 (competition)

Carnegie Mellon International Film Festival in Pittsburgh, USA, 2015 (competition)

Docudays UA, Ukraine, 2015 (competition)

IDFF "Flahertiana", Russia, 2015 (competition)

Budapest International Documentary Festival, Hungary, 2015 (competition)

7th Baghdad International Film Festival, Iraq, 2015 (screening)

8th Ulsan Ulju Mountain Film Festival, South Korea, 2023 (screening)