POLONAISE

Polonaise

 

POLAND 16 MIN

RUSSIAN PREMIERE

In the small, central Polish town of Aleksandrow Kujawski, the director of the local culture centre announces a competition. The theme ... a creative presentation of your personal patriotic attitude. Entrants are free to demonstrate their creativity in whatever form they like; in song, recitation or gesture, by giving a speech or staging their piece. Anything goes. There’s just one requirement; entrants may only present their own, original work. The eleventh day of the eleventh month arrives... Poland’s Independence Day. And on this very day, the jury, consisting of the director, the mayor, a priest and a local poetess, will select the region’s number one patriot.

AGNIESZKA ELBANOWSKA

 

Director, editor, reporter and photojournalist Agnieszka Elbanowska is a graduate of the University of Warsaw, Roma Tre University and the Wajda School and is currently working on her Ph.D. at the Łódź Film School. A member of the Polish Filmmakers Association. Her most recent film, “The Love Equation of Henry Fast”, has been screened at festivals in Poland and abroad and has won numerous awards.

 

• 32nd Warsaw Film Festival, Poland 2016 
• Tampere Film Festival, Finland 2017 
• True/False Film Festival, USA, 2017

 

Short Competition 2017