ANYTHING CAN HAPPEN
POLISH TITLE: WSZYSTKO MOŻE SIĘ PRZYTRAFIĆ
A story of life and death, featuring Lozinski's six-year-old son Tomaszek and elderly people spending time on the benches of a Warsaw park. Riding his scooter, Tomaszek asks the elderly very adult, though basic, questions, which they are happy to answer. The boy's ideas of future and life are confronted with those of men at the end of their lives.
- GENRE:
- documentary
- RUNNING TIME:
- 39'
- YEAR:
- 1995
- DIRECTING:
- Marcel Łoziński
- SCRIPT:
- Marcel Łoziński
- DOP:
- Artur Reinhart
- EDITOR:
- Katarzyna Maciejko-Kowalczyk
- PRODUCTION:
- TVP S.A., Studio Filmowe Kalejdoskop
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)
- FilmPOLSKA, Germany, 2011 (screening)
- DocsDF 2012, Mexico, 2012 (screening)
- Festival dei Popoli – International Documentary Film Festival, Italy, 2013 (screening)
- Documentarist, Turkey, 2014 (screening)
- True/False FF, USA, 2015 (screening)
- 17th Vilnius Documentary Film Festival, Lithuania, 2020 (screening)
- International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Germany, 1995, (FICC Award, the Jury of the Minister President of North Rhine-Westphalia Award, the Ecumenical Jury Award)
- Bornholm Film Festival, Denmark, (Grand Prix, Kodak Award)
- Word Television Festival, 1997, (Award for the Best Documentary)
- San Francisco International Film Festival, USA, 1996, (Golden Spire)