Tag: 2013

  • Sola

    Sola

    Sola is the last survivor in Vienna – the city is hers. Without electricity or running water she lives a dreary routine. She strays around through abandoned homes – always in search of food and possible survivors. Yet there is no lack of necessities, but solitude drives her in an increasingly critical state. The only saving grace in their empty world is music. Every day she goes for one hour in a church to play the organ – even though she never had practice before. One day Sola makes a long-awaited discovery and hope lights for her again…

    AT, 2013, 20 Min

    Credits

    CastMelanie Mezzina, Larissa Sabitzer
    Written & DirectedAlexandra Makarová
    CinematographyGeorg Weiss
    EditingLisa Geretschläger
    Sound designKaroline T. Heflin
    Script SupervisionRobert Buchschwenter
    ComposingWerner Weitschacher
    ProducersJürgen Karasek, Filip Antoni Malinowski, Sebastian Schmidl, Alexandra Makarová, Georg Weiss, Lisa Geretschläger
    CO-PRODUCTION Geretschläger / Makarova / Weiss / Schmidl (AT)

    Awards / Festivals

    Winner Best Actress Melanie Mezzina La Pedrera Short Film Festival, 2014
    Winner Honorable MentionDiagonale Filmfestival Graz, 2014
    Winner Special Mention FIC International Film Festival, Buenos Aires
    NOMINationFilmplus Award (Filmschnitt & Schnittkunst) für Lisa Geretschläger

    Edinburgh Film Festival, 2013 – World Premiere
    Créteil Int’l Women’s Film Festival, 2014
    Versi di Luce FF, 2014
    Vienna Independent Shorts, 2014
    Österreichisches Kulturforum Prag

    Funding

    City of Vienna, Culture

  • Resettlement

    Resettlement

    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)

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  • H.I.JEW POSITIVE

    H.I.JEW POSITIVE

    “I am H I Jew positive!” Jurek, a Polish student, has just discovered that he is Jewish and describes his feelings about his newly discovered identity. Almost every day, Poles raised as Catholics discover that their parents have hidden their true identity and that they are originally of Jewish origin and thus belong to the second and third generation of Holocaust survivors. The film begins 14 years ago and accompanies three people from the moment they discover their new identity and follows their lives in a country where the Jewish faith still has to contend with prejudice.

    AT/ISR, 2013, 80/52 MIN

    Credits

    Director & concept Ronit Kertsner
    Producers Filip Antoni Malinowski, Jürgen Karasek, Ronit Kertsner

    Awards / Festivals

    World Premiere Jerusalem Film Festival 2014
    European PremiereKrakow International Film Festival 2014

    Temple Beth El 2019, USA
    The Spiro Ark 2016, USA
    Highland Park Temple 2015, USA
    The Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw 2014, Poland
    United Orthodox Synagogues of Houston 2014, USA
    Zagreb Jewish Film Festival 2014, Croatia
    Australia Jewish Film Festival 2014, Australia

    Funding

    Yesdocu Israel