After recent suc­cess in Spain, Aus­tria and Italy, „Declar­a­tion of Immor­tal­ity” by Mar­cin Kosz­a­łka has been awar­ded at Bris­tol Encoun­ters Inter­na­tional Short and Anim­ated Film Festival.

Bris­tol Encoun­ters Inter­na­tional Short and Anim­ated Film Fest­ival came to an end 20^th of Novem­ber. The Doc­u­ment­ary Awards went to “Declar­a­tion of Immor­tal­ity” dir­ec­ted by Mar­cin Kosz­a­łka. As the Fest­ival Jury claimed, “with a spec­tac­u­lar cine­ma­to­graphy and a mise-​en-​scène, [this is] a mov­ing story about age and immor­tal­ity, the inter­ac­tion between the film­maker and the char­ac­ter”


In his film Mar­cin Kosz­a­łka returns to a for­got­ten genre, namely a moun­tain film. The prot­ag­on­ist of his story is Piotr “Mad” Kor­czak, some­where in the back­ground there is his rival Andrzej Mar­cisz. The dir­ector focuses on the decline of the career of the great mas­ter, pro­vok­ing his reflec­tion on his future life, when he will no longer be able to climb moun­tains. It’s a mov­ing story about inab­il­ity to come to terms with old age and about desire of immor­tal­ity.


More about the fest­ival can be found at www​.encoun​ters​-fest​ival​.org​.uk.


  (23.11.2011)