89MM OD EUROPY
Polish-French co-production. The Polish-Belarusian border in Brzesc. Wheels are replaced under the train carriages entering the territory of the former USSR, where the gauge is 89 mms wider. Two worlds meet at the platform: the western world of the train passengers and the eastern world of the Belarusian workers. The two groups are unable to understand each other.
- GENRE:
- documentary
- COUNTRY:
- Poland
- RUNNING TIME:
- 12'
- YEAR:
- 1993
- DIRECTING:
- Marcel Łoziński
- SCRIPT:
- Marcel Łoziński
- DOP:
- Jacek Petrycki, Artur Reinhart
- EDITOR:
- Katarzyna Maciejko-Kowalczyk
- PRODUCTION:
- Studio Filmowe Kalejdoskop, Agencja Produkcji Filmowej, Fundacja im. Stefana Batorego
Marcel Łoziński »
Born in 1940 in Paris. He earned his degree in Film Directing from Łódź Film School. He has made a number of excellent documentaries, which include The Visit (1974), Front Collision (1975), How to Live (1977), Microphone’s Test (1980), Practice Exercises (1984), Anything Can Happen (1995), So It Doesn’t Hurt (1998), How It’s Done (2006) and was nominated to the European Academy Award and American Oscar for his documentary film entitled 89 mm from Europe (1993). For the past four years he has been the head of the documentary programme at the Andrzej Wajda Master School of Film Directing.
AT FESTIVALS:
- DocPoint - Helsinki Documentary Film Festival, 2010 (screening)
- 5th Annual Austin Polish Film Festival, USA, 2010 (screening)
- Festival dei Popoli – International Documentary Film Festival, Italy, 2013 (screening)
- 23rd IFF Camerimage, Poland, 2015 (screening)
- Bogotá Short Film Festival BOGOshorts, Colombia, 2017 (screening)
- International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Germany, 1993, (Grand Prix)
- The Balticum Film and TV Festival, Gudhjem, Denmark, 1993, (Second Prize)
- Flickerfest International Short Film Festival, Australia, (Award for the Best Documentary)
- San Francisco International Film Festival, USA, 1994, (Special Mention)
- Curtas Vila do Conde - Internacional Film Festival, Portugal, 1993, (First Prize)
- Vue sur le Docs - International Film Festival, France, 1993, (Jeana d'Arcy Special Award)
- World Film Festival, Montreal, Canada, 1994, (Grand Prix)
- Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival, France, 1994, (Special Jury Prize)
- DOK Leipzig - International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film, Germany, 1994, (Golden Dove)