DOCS TO BUY – PRE-RELEASE INDUSTRY SCREENINGS OF NEWEST POLISH DOCUMENTARIES

1.06, 14.00 – 17.30 SCREENINGS; 17.45 – 18.30 ONE‑TO‑ONE MEETINGS

2.06, 14.00 – 16.00 SCREENINGS
KIJÓW.CENTRUM Kijów.Studio 
2.06, 16.15 – 18.15 ONE‑TO‑ONE MEETINGS
MOS 5 

This is the first edition of DOCS TO BUY during Krakow Film Festival. DOCS TO BUY is pre-release screenings of the newest Polish documentary films. These are closed previews dedicated to film industry, and its purpose is to find potential channels of distribution. Screenings are followed by one-to-one meetings between producers and international distributors and sales agents, invited especially for this event.
DOCS TO BUY was created under initiative of Polish Film Institute and developing KFF Sales – new part of Krakow Film Foundation, which aim is to sale and find international distributors for Polish documentary films.
Screening and meetings are closed, only for invited producers, distributors and decision makers.

Selected films:
13 Summers under Water, dir. Wiktoria Szymańska
21 x New York, dir. Piotr Stasik
Monk of the Sea, dir. Rafał Skalski 
Walkig Spark, dir. Marcin Kopeć
When You Return (working title), dir. Anna Zamęcka

13 Summers under Water

DIRECTOR: WIKTORIA SZYMAŃSKA
DOP: MARTIN BOEGE
EDITOR: DAVID TORRES
PRODUCERS: WIKTORIA SZYMAŃSKA, MARTIN
BOEGE
ASSOCIATE PRODUCER: MARTIN BERLEAND,
IZABELA IGEL, JOANNA SOLECKA
PRODUCTION COMPANY: TEA, LUNA W
PRODUCTION COUNTRIES: MEXICO, UK, POLAND
SHOOTING FORMAT: 35 MM
ESTIMATED RUNNING TIME: 75’
LANGUAGE: SPANISH, FRENCH, ENGLISH, POLISH

7 people wander through memory and dream looking for the ones they loved but lost. Between the dreamscapeand landscape, the dead and alive are finally allowed to communicate, because they can feel and hear each other. A journey to the afterlife.

21 x New York

DIRECTOR: PIOTR STASIK
DOP: PIOTR STASIK
EDITOR: PIOTR STASIK, DOROTA
WARDĘSZKIEWICZ, TOMASZ WOLSKI
PRODUCER: AGNIESZKA WASIAK
PRODUCTION COMPANY: LAVA FILMS
PRODUCTION COUNTRY: POLAND
SHOOTING FORMAT: DIGITAL, SUPER8MM
RUNNING TIME: 50’/70’
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH, CHINESE, POLISH, RUSSIAN

'21 x New York’ is a documentary essay about human condition in the 21st century western society told through personal stories of 21 people met in the New York City subway. Commuters, old and young, have different skin colors, come from different places with different reasons to be there. The film follows them to the surface and observes moments in their lives, from funny and absurd to sad and dramatic. People seek love but are unable to handle it. Interpersonal bonds disintegrate into social media networking pulp. Sex is the new meaning of intimacy.Multi‑layered collage of portraits is a contemplation on cravings, passions, hopes and dreams – sometimes lost and sometimes still waiting to be fulfilled. It is also an observation of eccentric, extravagant or plain funny life philosophies we make up in order to get by. What comes out of it is an emotional essay of solitude that haunts us in 21st century western world. Oneiric images of New York, intimate narration and atmospheric music aim at putting audience in a trance allowing them to get closer to complete strangers and ponder upon their fate. Ultimately, the film is a mirror we can look into if we are brave enough.

Monk of the Sea
DIRECTOR: RAFAŁ SKALSKI
DOP: FILIP DRÓŻDŻ
EDITOR: FILIP DRZEWIECKI
PRODUCER: AGNIESZKA JANOWSKA, JACEK
NAGŁOWSKI, PAWEŁ KOSUŃ
PRODUCTION COMPANY: CENTRALA FILM
PRODUCTION COUNTRIES: POLAND /GERMANY
SHOOTING FORMAT: HD
ESTIMATED RUNNING TIME: 60’
LANGUAGE: THAI

Thailand. Ball, thirty‑year‑old corporate guy, leads a very entertaining life full of parties. One day, he decides to become a short‑term buddhism monk. So says Thai tradition. For Thai people going to the monastery is equal to a kind of initiation. In the watt Thai men become real men. Ball hopes to find his life goal within 15 days. This is how long he is about to stay in an unusual monastery surrounded by water, where he will be ordained, and where he will meet charismatic Abbot.

Walking Spark

DIRECTOR: MARCIN KOPEĆ
DOP: FILIP DROŻDŻ
EDITOR: DANIEL GĄSIOROWSKI
PRODUCER: DAWID JANICKI, JOANNA SZYMAŃSKA
PRODUCTION COMPANY: SHIPSBOY
PRODUCTION COUNTRY: POLAND
SHOOTING FORMAT: HD
ESTIMATED RUNNING TIME: 52’
LANGUAGE: POLISH

Piotr, forty five year’s old former member of Warsaw mafia, leaves prison and tries to make a new start in life. He is a gangster but tries to be a good man. To leave his troubled past behind him Piotr takes up his first legal job – as hospice assistant. But in his case turning over a new leaf is not so easy – in his past he was feared of, he was violent, he made people around him suffer. Person who sees behind his dangerous façade is Magda, visual artist, who is leading quiet, peaceful family life in an idyllic village in the middle of nowhere. Magda, touched by Piotr’s tragic story decides to create a stop‑motion animation about his life. Piotr becomes a frequent guest in her countryside home, full of warmth and happiness. Through Magda we access Piotr’s deepest secrets and together with her we are left to wonder if his transformation is real? And more importantly – will it last?

When you return

DIRECTOR: ANNA ZAMĘCKA
DOP: MAŁGORZATA SZYŁAK
EDITOR: AGNIESZKA GLIŃSKA, ANNA ZAMECKA,
WOJCIECH JANAS
PRODUCER: ANNA WYDRA, ZUZANNA KRÓL –
MAZIARZEWSKA, HANKA KASTELICOVA, IZABELA
ŁOPUCH. ANNA ZAMECKA
PRODUCTION COMPANY: OTTER FILMS, WAJDA STUDIO, HBO EUROPE
PRODUCTION COUNTRY /COUNTRIES: POLAND
SHOOTING FORMAT: HD
ESTIMATED RUNNING TIME: 70’
LANGUAGE: POLISH

Before Ola turned eight, her mother had moved out. She just disappeared one day. She didn’t come back the next day or any other. The girl can’t remember when she stopped waiting, but she remembers very clearly the moment she realized that from now on, she has to take care of the house and her autistic brother by herself. While she was learning to read and write at school, at home she had to set her father’s alarm so that he wouldn’t be late for work, she had to look after her little brother. She was determined to do whatever it takes to make him a ‘normal boy’. She taught him to play football, fight and swear. The problem was that Nikodem didn’t want to be a boy anymore. He believed that he was a chimpanzee and that one day he will grow fur and strong claws. Now Ola is an adolescent of fourteen. She wants to have a normal home. That is why she is so eager to send her brother to First Communion; she wants them to have a family dinner and gifts, like everyone else. But there is one more reason why she teaches him the catechism so stubbornly.For Ola the celebration of the First Communion is most of all an opportunity to meet her mum. She promised she would come. The truth is Ola never stopped waiting for her.