A unique Polish couple in their 80s. After living for 66 years in their flat they have to move out. While Maria is an extraordinary spirit full of un-dominable optimism and vitality – Tadeusz is a silent scientist and a fatalist. Now they have to fight their existential disaster that unveils the touching stories of their life and casts a shadow over their present. It’s a film about justice and equality – the crisis of morality in past and present modern society, as well as about how to get old – staying young.
AT/PL, 2012, 76/56 min
Credits
Concept & Director & doP & editor Filip Antoni Malinowski
Additional Editing Julia Pontiller, Stefan Hahn
Script Consultant Rolf Orthel
Associate Producer Carlo Pisani
Co-productionMalina Film (PL)
Awards / Festivals
Special Jury Prize Festiwal Mediow Lodz 2012
Honorable Mention Off Cinema Poznan 2012
Winner Best Documentary Prize EKRAN Toronto FF 2013
Appreciation Award of Fine Art Academy of Fine Arts Vienna 2012
Winner Best Film DYI Filmfest Warsaw 2013
Krakow International Film Festival – World Premiere
Unabhängiges Filmfest Osnabrück (competition)
This Human World Human Rights Film Festival Vienna (competition)
Planete DOC Review Warsaw & Wrocław
goEast Wiesbaden FF (competition)
OFF Plus Camera Kraków, Polish Film Festival of America Chicago
OFF Cinema Festival Poznań (competition, awarded)
FilmPolska München, Seattle Polish Film Festival
Człowiek w Zagrożeniu Łódź (competition, awarded)
Cinema Perpetuum Mobile FF Minsk, Kamera Akcja Łódź
TNR Tarnowska Nagroda Filmowa (competition)
Transatlantyk Poznań (competition)
FilmPolska Berlin
Diagonale Graz (competition)
Guth Gafa Ireland
Human Doc Warsaw (competition)
Filmfest Rejected Innsbruck (competition)
DIY Filmfest (winner, best film)
Lubskie Lato Filmowe Łagów (competition)
Forum of European Cinema Cinergia Łódź (competition)
Filmowa Góra Zielona Góra, Vancouver Polish Film Festival
EKRAN Toronto Polish FF (competition, winner best doc film)
Solanin Film Festival, Polnische Filmwoche Erlangen
PLAY Poland Film Festival UK
Polish FF Los Angeles
Delai International Documentary Film Festival Moscow
Flahertiana International Documentary Film Festival Perm, Russia
funding
Austrian Ministry of Culture and Arts (Innovative Film)