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Student documentary film by J. Wenda is in the Millennium Docs Against Gravity Short Film Competition. In the same section there's also a film by our editing graduate, M Modzelewski entitled LIFT LADY
The 22nd edition of Millennium Docs Against Gravity runs from 9 to 18 May in cinemas in Warszawa, Wrocław, Gdynia, Poznań, Katowice, Łódź and Bydgoszcz and from 20 May to 2 June online at mdag.pl
Seven cities, over 165,000 viewers in 2024, several hundred volunteers across the country - all these people, institutions and places make up the MDAG festival family. Thanks to their work and love for cinema, for two decades Millennium Docs Against Gravity has become the second largest documentary film festival in Europe, right after the IDFA festival in Amsterdam.
The slogan of this year's MDAG edition also refers to the sense of community and is "The whole world between us".
The Short Film Competition includes a documentary short by our directing student Jakub Wenda entitled THE UNKNOWN LIFE OF FLOWERS.
Film synopsis: Seventeen-year-old Kamila will soon leave the foster care centre. As the leader of the group, she is almost a mother figure to the younger girls. From now on, they will have to cope on their own and find hope in the place where they live.
Credits:
direction: Jakub Wenda
cinematography: Jan Wikarski
editing: Anna Adamowicz production
management: Klaudia Cieślak, Barbara Olesińska
artistic supervision: Maria Zmarz-Koczanowicz
production: Lodz Film School
The film will be screened on:
12, May, 5:45 p.m., Kinoteka
15, May, 6:00 p.m., Kino Iluzjon
18, May, 4:15 p.m., Kino Iluzjon
Tickets available on the website: mdag.pl/22/pl/warszawa/movie/Nieznane-zycie-kwiatow
But that's not the only film associated with the Lodz Film School!
In the Short Film Competition, viewers will also see LIFT LADY directed by Marcin Modzelewski.
Film synopsis: This is a story about the everyday life of Mzia – a supervisor of a paid lift in a Brutalist-style apartment block at the Nutsubidze Plato housing estate in Tbilisi. The surrealism of the urban complex is mixed here with the grotesqueness of everyday life and the vices of the inhabitants, drawing a tragicomic image of contemporary Georgia. The introspective story of the lift operator, a former war sniper, reveals to the viewer a microcosm of neighbourly relations forgotten by the West.
Credits:
screenplay and direction: Marcin Modzelewski (editing graduate) cinematography: Jakub Urbański (cinematography graduate)
editing: Marcin Sołtysik (editing graduate)
executive producers: Anderegande Studio
production: Munk Studio
See the trailer vimeo.com
Info about the film and screenings mdag.pl/22/pl/warszawa/movie/Lift-Lady
Fingers crossed!
still 1 - THE UNKNOWN LIFE OF FLOWERS
still 2 - LIFT LADY
Seven cities, over 165,000 viewers in 2024, several hundred volunteers across the country - all these people, institutions and places make up the MDAG festival family. Thanks to their work and love for cinema, for two decades Millennium Docs Against Gravity has become the second largest documentary film festival in Europe, right after the IDFA festival in Amsterdam.
The slogan of this year's MDAG edition also refers to the sense of community and is "The whole world between us".
The Short Film Competition includes a documentary short by our directing student Jakub Wenda entitled THE UNKNOWN LIFE OF FLOWERS.
Film synopsis: Seventeen-year-old Kamila will soon leave the foster care centre. As the leader of the group, she is almost a mother figure to the younger girls. From now on, they will have to cope on their own and find hope in the place where they live.
Credits:
direction: Jakub Wenda
cinematography: Jan Wikarski
editing: Anna Adamowicz production
management: Klaudia Cieślak, Barbara Olesińska
artistic supervision: Maria Zmarz-Koczanowicz
production: Lodz Film School
The film will be screened on:
12, May, 5:45 p.m., Kinoteka
15, May, 6:00 p.m., Kino Iluzjon
18, May, 4:15 p.m., Kino Iluzjon
Tickets available on the website: mdag.pl/22/pl/warszawa/movie/Nieznane-zycie-kwiatow
But that's not the only film associated with the Lodz Film School!
In the Short Film Competition, viewers will also see LIFT LADY directed by Marcin Modzelewski.
Film synopsis: This is a story about the everyday life of Mzia – a supervisor of a paid lift in a Brutalist-style apartment block at the Nutsubidze Plato housing estate in Tbilisi. The surrealism of the urban complex is mixed here with the grotesqueness of everyday life and the vices of the inhabitants, drawing a tragicomic image of contemporary Georgia. The introspective story of the lift operator, a former war sniper, reveals to the viewer a microcosm of neighbourly relations forgotten by the West.
Credits:
screenplay and direction: Marcin Modzelewski (editing graduate) cinematography: Jakub Urbański (cinematography graduate)
editing: Marcin Sołtysik (editing graduate)
executive producers: Anderegande Studio
production: Munk Studio
See the trailer vimeo.com
Info about the film and screenings mdag.pl/22/pl/warszawa/movie/Lift-Lady
Fingers crossed!
still 1 - THE UNKNOWN LIFE OF FLOWERS
still 2 - LIFT LADY