This year SHORT WAVES festival will be blowing out eight candels on its birthday cake, this time under the name POLISH WAVES. Six Polish short films, selected by the AdArte Fundation, will be screened in the Actor’s Studio Theater, in the old town of Brussels, on 22 November 2016.
All movies are screened in Polish with French and English subtitles.
On the programme:
- presentation of the festival by Szymon STEMPLEWSKI, director of the AdArte Fundation
- screening of six shorts:
>>> Umowa (The Deal), by Ewa SMYK
>>> Koniec świata (The End of the World), by Monika PAWLUCZUK
>>> Obiekt (The Object), by Paulina SKIBIŃSKA
>>> Back home, by Weronika IZDEBSKA
>>> Dzień babci (Grandma’s Day), by Miłosz SAKOWSKI
>>> Drifting, by Michał Marczak
- Q&A with director Ewa SMYK
- cocktail
PRACTICAL INFORMATION
>>> Actor’s studio (Petite rue des Bouchers 16, 1000 Brussels) – see map
>>> 22 November 2016 – 19:30
>>> €7
Umowa (The Deal) | Ewa Smyk / Animation / 2015 / 4,5 min
This stop motion tells us a story of a traditional wedding proposal in the village Dobrowoda in Podlasie, taking place in the 1950s and 1960s. The scenario was based on an extract from a diary of Nicholas Smyk – director’s grandfather. “The deal” is a personal reflection on the memory of the family.
Koniec świata (The End of the World) | Monika Pawluczuk / Documentary / 2015 / 40 min.
An intimate, creative and very immensely visual documentary where couple of stories weave into one narrative during one night. In a big city, many people are joined in one need – troubled by loneliness, they want to talk to someone. The radio is a motif linking this night’s events – we hear it in the ambulance, in a city’s monitoring centre where we observe the night life of the city presented on dozens of screens. The radio binds the elements of the film together and it is the source of the most important questions.
Obiekt (The Object) | Paulina Skibińska / Documentary film / 2015 / 14,5 min
A creative image of a search action set in two worlds – on an ice desert and under the water. The film is simultaneously narrated from different points of view: the rescue team, the diver stepping into the ice-world and ordinary people waiting ashore.
Back home | Weronika Izdebska / Daniel Spaleniak feat. Katarzyna Kowalczyk, video clip / 2016 / 4,5 min
Expanse. Cool, crisp air, foaming waves washing ashore, a thin line of unattainable horizon in the place where clouds reach the ground. What are you looking for?
Dzień babci (Grandma’s Day) | Miłosz Sakowski / Fiction / 2015 / 30 min
Tom needs money. He decides to cheat an elderly woman using the “grandchild” tactic. When it seems that everything goes according to plan, the woman unmasks the impostor and locks him in the apartment. The woman proposes a deal that intertwines their lives in an unexpected way.
Drifting | Michał Marczak / Jacek Sienkiewicz, video clip / 2015 / 4,5 min.
“Drifting” is a trip to a place where music puts souls in an ecstatic trance, where nobody cares about the reality. The clip is a part of Michal Marczak’s feature film “All the sleepless nights”, which was awarded at Sundance festival for best direction of a documentary film.
