SIX WEEKS / SZEŚĆ TYGODNI
director:
Marcin Janos Krawczyk
screenwriter:
Marcin Janos Krawczyk
produced in:
2009
runtime:
18
cinematography:
Wojciech Staroń
editing:
Agnieszka Glińska
production:
Staron Film SC, TVP S.A.
copy:
video
dialogues:
pl
subtitles:
en
Living on welfare payments too small to survive on, in a tiny apartment with no hot water or gas, a single mother has no choice but to give her newborn to an orphanage. 6 Weeks is an intimate and powerful short that documents a mother’s painful goodbye as her baby, along with so many other babies, awaits its future in a Polish orphanage. FILM REPRESENTED BY THE KRAKOW FILM FOUNDATION
Marcin Janos Krawczyk »
Born in 1978 in Tomaszów Lubelski. He works as an actor. He graduated from Documentary Course in the Andrzej Wajda Master School of Film Directing.
at festivals:
Doc à Tunis, Tunisia , 2010 (screening)
Documentarist, Turkey , 2010 (screening)
Curtas Vila do Conde , Portugal , 2010 (screening)
Message to Man International Film Festival, St Petersburg, Russia , 2010 (screening)
Collecchio Video Film Festival, Italy , 2010 (screening)
Festival Silhouette Courts Metrages, France , 2010 (screening)
Belo Horizonte International Short Film Festival, Brazil , 2010 (screening)
Ljubljana Independent Documentary Film Festival DOKUBAZAAR, Slovenia , 2010 (screening)
X International Documentary Film Festival FLAHERTIANA, Russia , 2010 (screening)
CNEX Documentary Film Festival, Taiwan , 2010 (screening)
Polish Film Festival in America, Chicago, USA , 2010 (screening)
ALCINE - Festival de Cine de Alcalá de Henares / Comunidad de Madrid , 2010 (screening)
REC Film Festival, in Puebla, Mexico , 2010 (screening)
Norwegian Documentary Film Festival Eurodok, Oslo, 2011 (screening)
6th Kenya International Film Festival in Nirobi, Kenya , 2011 (screening)
9. International Film Festival Era New Horizons, Wrocław, Poland , 2009 (competition)
East Silver Market 2009, Czech Republic , 2009 (SILVER EYE AWARDS - the Best Short Documentary )
22nd International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) , 2009 (Best Short Documentary )
PLUS CAMERIMAGE , 2009 (competition)
DOX BOX International Documentary Film Festival, Syria , 2010 (competition)
12th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival – Images of the 21st Century, Greece , 2010 (competition)
It's All True - International Documentary Film Festival, Sao Paulo, Brazil , 2010 (competition)
Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival , 2010 (competition)
Curtocircuito, Spain , 2010 (competition)
Curt.doc Short Documentary Festival, Spain , 2010 (competition)
Palm Springs International ShortFest, USA , 2010 (competition)
XXIV Pärnu International Film Festival, Estonia , 2010 (competition)
DOKUFEST, The International Documentary and Short Film Festival, Kosovo , 2010 (competition)
Lemesos Int'l Documentery Festival, Cyprus , 2010 (competition)
Monterrey International Film Festival, Mexico , 2010 (Best Short Documentary Film )
dokumentART - European Documentary Film Festival, Germany / Poland , 2010 (Nagroda Miasta Neubrandenburg )
KALIBER35 Munich International Short Film Festival, Germany , 2011 (competition)