HAKAWATI
director: Marcin Sauter screenwriter: Marcin Sauter produced in: 2011 runtime: 40 cinematography: Marcin Sauter editing: Agnieszka Glińska production: Studio Filmowe Kalejdoskop music: Raphael Rogiński
‘Hakawati’ in the Arab tradition is a master of storytelling, a brilliant raconteur who tells stories to everybody willing to listen. Hakawati played a very important role in the Arab culture: they gathered crowds of people eager to hear new fairy tales and strange stories. And now there are no real Hakawati left. In the contemporary world people have no time to listen to stories. The director sets off to search for true storytellers and finds the remnants of the tradition, which, unfortunately, are rather for camera‑holding tourists than local people.
Marcin Sauter »
born in 1971 in Bydgoszcz. He is a photographer and has worked on, among others, The Suburban Train (2005) by Maciej Cuske. He completed the documentary course at the Andrzej Wajda Master School of Film Directing in Warsaw. His documentary debut Behind the Fence (2005) was recognized at the 45th Krakow Film Festival (2005) and his next film The Travelling Cinema (2005) was awarded with the Silver Hobby Horse of Krakow and the Honorary Award of the Student Jury at the last year’s festival. at festivals:
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