TWO AWARDS FOR THE DOCUMENTARY BY RATH
The recent festival favourite, 11-minute-long, documentary etude by Martin Rath, shown at over 70 festivals all around the world, got as many as two awards last week.
This year's third edition of the REEL INDEPENDENT Festival took place from 12 to 18 October. In the festival's programme, there were full-length feature and documentary films, as well as short fiction and documentary films. Thursday evening, the awards were given in ten categories. From among the films shown in the short documentary section, "Written in ink" by Martin Rath turned out to be the best. It is the second award which the film got in the United States. Since the première at South by South West (SXSW) so far the film has been shown at over 25 festivals.
The film got yet another award last Friday in Italy. The Milan festival I’ve seen films was held this autumn for the fifth time. The festival's founder and its artistic patron is the American actor Ruther Hauer. This year, over 4000 films were submitted for selection, out of which 100 films found their way to the programme, including the only one Polish film in the competition - precisely "Written in ink" by Rath. The film received the award for the Best Short Documentary.
"Written in ink" is the first-year's production by Martin Rath - the student of the Polish National Film School in Łodź. The film's protagonist is a homeless man, who tries to rebuild his broken relationship with his sister after 14 years. The beautifully filmed picture by Martin Rath recounts how difficult it is to erase the past events from our memory, and how every new experience gets written in us almost irreversibly.
The documentary by Rath has already been awarded five times. Apart from the aforementioned festivals, "Written in ink" was awarded by the festivals in Abu Dhabi, Chilean Santiago and American Harlem.
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