DOCS TO START – PITCHING OF POLISH DOCUMENTARIES IN DEVELOPMENT
02.06.2016, 10.00 - 13.00 - PUBLIC PRESENTATIONS
MOS 1 (access with passes: INDUSTRY, MEDIA)

02.06.2016, 14.00 - 17.00 – ONE-TO-ONE MEETINGS
MOS-3 (for participants and experts only)
DOCS TO START is a presentation of Polish projects in development stage followed by co-production forum: one to one meetings with international decision-makers, and producers who are open to cooperation with Poland.
 

PITCHING MODERATED BY RADA SESIC (Bosnia and Herzegovina)

SELECTED PROJECTS:

Boylesque
ENGLISH TITLE: BOYLESQUE
ORIGINAL TITLE: BOYLESKA
DIRECTOR: BOGNA KOWALCZYK
DOP: MIŁOSZ KASIURA
PRODUCER: TOMASZ MORAWSKI
PRODUCTION COMPANY: BOFFO
PRODUCTION COUNTRY: POLAND
ESTIMATED RUNNING TIME: 52’
LANGUAGE: POLISH
Former communist Poland’s Drag Queen, Madame Lula (75), is trying to fit into the modern
boylesque scene to once again became a part of the Drag Queens’s bohemia in Warsaw.

Fury
ENGLISH TITLE: FURY
ORIGINAL TITLE: FURIA
DIRECTOR: KRZYSZTOF KASIOR
DOP: MATEUSZ GOLIS
PRODUCER: AGATA SIKORA
PRODUCTION COMPANY: SPIRALA FILM AGATA
SIKORA
PRODUCTION COUNTRY: POLAND
ESTIMATED RUNNING TIME: 52’
LANGUAGE: POLISH
Ola, 25 years old, works for a call center in a small town, gets a chance to fight for the title
of World Champion MMA in Las Vegas. She is going there to win, and by the way – to deal
with her past life.

Miss Holocaust
ENGLISH TITLE: MISS HOLOCAUST
ORIGINAL TITLE: MISS HOLOCAUST
DIRECTOR: MICHALINA MUSIELAK
DOP: BEATA RAKOCZY
PRODUCER: KAROLINA GALUBA, MAŁGORZATA
MAŁYSA
PRODUCTION COMPANY: FURIA FILM
PRODUCTION COUNTRY: POLAND
ESTIMATED RUNNING TIME: 52’
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH
History repeats itself because people forget. ‘Miss Holocaust’ is a story about Judith, who
decided to take all possible measures to prevent people from forgetting.

Mission
ENGLISH TITLE: MISSION
ORIGINAL TITLE: MISJA
DIRECTOR: MONIKA KRUPA
DOP: FILIP DROŻDŻ
PRODUCER: DOROTA MANDZIARA
PRODUCTION COMPANY: TRZY FILM
PRODUCTION COUNTRY: POLAND
ESTIMATED RUNNING TIME: 55’
LANGUAGE: POLISH
A Polish archaeologist has been searching for a royal tomb in Egypt for over thirty years.
While others despaired gave up, he continues his quest. The film tells the story of a man
who pursues his goals regardless of the opinion of skeptics or the mockery of disbelievers.

Moody
ENGLISH TITLE: MOODY
ORIGINAL TITLE: MOODY
DIRECTOR: KAROLINA KARWAN, TOMASZ RATTER
DOP: KAROLINA KARWAN, TOMASZ RATTER
PRODUCER: TOMASZ RATTER
PRODUCTION COMPANY: MUNK STUDIO – POLISH
FILMMAKERS ASSOCIATION
PRODUCTION COUNTRY: POLAND
ESTIMATED RUNNING TIME: 60’
LANGUAGE: INDONESIAN WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES
A possessed man who loves to dance and his old stepmother live alone on a beautiful
tropical island in Indonesia. The movie is a dreamlike story of their love‑hate relationship
and loneliness in ‘paradise’.

The Run
ENGLISH TITLE: THE RUN
ORIGINAL TITLE: BIEG
DIRECTOR: KACPER LISOWSKI
DOP: KACPER LISOWSKI
PRODUCER: KRZYSZTOF SZPETMAŃSKI
PRODUCTION COMPANY: IRON FILMS SP. Z O. O.
PRODUCTION COUNTRY: POLAND
ESTIMATED RUNNING TIME: 50’
LANGUAGE: POLISH
Jerzy Górski, former junkie, had strength to fight with addiction, to become a World
Champion. Now he has one more dream – to complete last triathlon in his live, he just has
to find to do that with pulse below 120.

Scars
ENGLISH TITLE: SCARS
ORIGINAL TITLE: BLIZNY
DIRECTOR: AGNIESZKA ZWIEFKA
DOP: KACPER CZUBAK
PRODUCER: AGNIESZKA ZWIEFKA,
STEFANO STROCCHI
PRODUCTION COMPANY: CHILLI PRODUCTIONS,
BOEKAMP AND KRIEGSHEIM
PRODUCTION COUNTRY: POLAND, GERMANY
ESTIMATED RUNNING TIME: 82’
LANGUAGE: TAMIL, ENGLISH
A former Tamil Tigers female fighter‘s dangerous journey into the wounds of postwar Sri
Lanka and into her own dark past.

Selfie with God
ENGLISH TITLE: SELFIE WITH GOD
ORIGINAL TITLE: SELFIE WITH GOD
DIRECTOR: ŁUKASZ KONOPA
DOP: PAWEŁ CHORZĘPA
PRODUCER: SASHA HARARI, ANNA
KARDASZEWSKA, ALEKSANDRA LESZCZYŃSKA
PRODUCTION COMPANY: LAST MOMENT
PRODUCTION, HEYMANN BROTHERS FILMS
PRODUCTION COUNTRY: POLAND, ISRAEL
ESTIMATED RUNNING TIME: 52’
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH, HEBREW, POLISH, ARABIC
A tour guide makes his living answering pilgrims questions in the World’s holiest sites, but
is he able to make peace with the world, and find some answers himself?

Study of Chaos
ENGLISH TITLE: STUDY OF CHAOS
ORIGINAL TITLE: STUDIUM CHAOSU CZYLI TRAKTAT
O KRZYSZTOFIE NIEMCZYKU
DIRECTOR: TOMASZ ŚLIWIŃSKI, MAGDA HUECKEL
DOP: TOMASZ ŚLIWIŃSKI, MAGDA HUECKEL
PRODUCER: MARIKA KUŹMICZ
PRODUCTION COMPANY: ARTON FOUNDATION
PRODUCTION COUNTRY: POLAND
ESTIMATED RUNNING TIME: 75’
LANGUAGE: POLISH
Story of a brilliant misfit and radical artist, exposing the hypocrisy of the social conventions
and political system, whom the society was not able to accept.

Trucking Girl
ENGLISH TITLE: TRUCKING GIRL
ORIGINAL TITLE: TRUCKING GIRL
DIRECTOR: EDYTA WRÓBLEWSKA
DOP: MARCIN ŚCIEGLIŃSKI
PRODUCER: STANISŁAW ZABOROWSKI
PRODUCTION COMPANY: SILVER FRAME
PRODUCTION COUNTRY: POLAND
ESTIMATED RUNNING TIME: 52’
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH
Former Miss Beauty, who works as a truck driver, goes on a journey to Lebanon to deliver
humanitarian aid to a refugee camp for women.

Volte
ENGLISH TITLE: VOLTE
ORIGINAL TITLE: WOLTA
DIRECTOR: MONIKA KOTECKA,
KAROLINA PORYZAŁA
DOP: MONIKA KOTECKA, KAROLINA PORYZAŁA
PRODUCER: AGNIESZKA WASIAK
PRODUCTION COMPANY: LAVA FILMS
PRODUCTION COUNTRY: POLAND
ESTIMATED RUNNING TIME: 75’
LANGUAGE: POLISH, ENGLISH
A girl, a teenager and a woman confront their weaknesses in order to fulfil their dreams.
They don’t realize that the fight they’ve put up may turn out more rewarding than the goal
it served them for.