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Malgorzata Goliszewska & Kasia Mateja
PL 2019 52' 75'
⚬ Human Interest
Free-spirited Jola, after escaping from a marital nightmare is letting loose with her friends and finds herself thrust into a new romance at a latino dancing class. The drama evolves when the conservative powers of her generation try to justify her abusive husband. A highly cinematic and joyful journey into a woman’s battle to reinvent herself in her best age of life, when you are 69.
Directors | Malgorzata Goliszewska & Kasia Mateja |
Producers | Anna Stylińska, Izabela Łopuch |
Co-Producers | Mateusz Wajda, Anna Bławut |
Executive Producer | Hanka Kastelicova |
Production Company | Widok Films |
Cinematography | Kasia Mateja, Mateusz Czuchnowski, Tymon Tykwiński |
Writers | Malgorzata Goliszewska, Anna Stylińska |
Editor | Alan Zejer |
Music | Marcin Lenarczyk |
Sound | Anna Rok, Jarosław Sadowski |
Best Directors | Moscow International Documentary Film Festival DOKer 2020 |
Zwierciadło Magazine Award | Millennium Docs Against Gravity 2020 |
Lower Silesia Grand Prix | Millennium Docs Against Gravity 2020 |
Golden Kapok Award for Best Feature Documentary | GZDOC 2020 |
Silver Nanook Award for Original Artistic Solution | IDFF Flahertiana 2020 |
IDFA 2019 |
One World Prague 2020 |
Hot Docs 2020 |
DOK.fest München 2020 |
Sydney FF 2020 |
New Zealand IFF 2020 |
DOKer 2020 |
Millennium Docs Against Gravity 2020 |
Bergen IFF 2020 |
DOC NYC 2020 |
Budapest IDF 2021 |
| Runtimes | 52' 75' |
| Spoken Languages | Polish |
| Production Countries | Poland |
Kasia Mateja is a filmmaker and photographer, graduate of Edinburgh College of Art in Scotland from the faculty of Film and TV. She’s worked as a director, cinematographer, editor, sound technician and producer. She made short documentaries and experimental films in Scotland, Irleand, Argentina, Bolivia, Peru, Mongolia. Her documentary SILENCE ON THE WAY TO THE REINDEER PEOPLE won awards at festivals in Brazil, Romania, Portugal and in Poland. She conducts film workshops for disadvantaged youth.
Malgorzata Goliszewska is a a documentary filmmaker with an artistic background. Malgorzata graduated from the DocPro course at Wajda School in 2012 and POLSKA. DOC. She received a master degree in Multimedia Art. She worked in the Department of Experimental Film (Academy of Fine Arts in Szczecin). She works with different media: documentary film and contemporary art, often combining these two fields. She directed several short films, two of which were screened all over the world on international film festivals. Her short TYPE OF BIRDS was shown at IDFA, Sheffield FFF, Cracow FF, DocAgainst, New Horizons FF and many others.
