AN ORDINARY COUNTRY
POLISH TITLE: ZWYCZAJNY KRAJ
REPRESENTED BY KFF
Controlled conversations, recording with hidden cameras, dirty records of interrogations and recruitment attempts as well as video tutorials for the officers of the security service – all of these materials are employed to portray the monitored life in Poland under communism. Sometimes grotesque, this picture is underpinned by horror, escalating intuitively with every minute. The dramatic culmination is when the Big Brother is not just watching but violating the intimacy of an ordinary citizen. Before us, there is a terrifying communist panopticon which keeps spying on and recording itself.
- GENRE:
- documentary
- COUNTRY:
- Poland
- RUNNING TIME:
- 51'
- YEAR:
- 2020
- COLOUR:
- black and white
- DIRECTING:
- Tomasz Wolski
- SCRIPT:
- Tomasz Wolski
- EDITOR:
- Tomasz Wolski
- PRODUCTION:
- KIJORA / Anna Gawlita
Tomasz Wolski »
A member of Guild of Polish Documentary Directors Polish Film Academy and European Film Academy. Director of short film "Daughter" (Grand Prix at Angers Premiers Plan) & director, editor, cameramen of 13 documentaries awarded at many international festival incl. Los Angeles Film Festival, Palm Springs Film Festival, Punto de Vista, Nancy - Aye Aye Film Festival, Evora - FIKE, Flickerfest International Short Film Festival, Camerimage & Krakow Film Festival.
AT FESTIVALS:
- 30th Film Festival Cottbus, Germany, 2020 (screening)
- IDFA, The Netherlands, 2020 (screening)
- 51st Visions du Réel International Film Festival Nyon, Switzerland , 2020 (Jury Prize Clinique de Genolier)
- 60th Krakow Film Festival, 2020, Poland, 2020 (Golden Hobby-Horse, Golden Hobby Horse)
- 8th FIDBA Buenos Aires International Documentary Film Festival, Argentina, 2020 (Special Mention)
- Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente de La Plata Festi-Freak, Argentina, 2020 (competition)
- 27th Minsk International Film Festival 'Listapad', Belarus, 2020 (Special Jury Award)