Yes­ter­day, the win­ners of the Inter­na­tional Doc­u­ment­ary Film Fest­ival ZAGREB­DOX were announced. “Chasm” by Woj­ciech Kasper­ski was hon­oured with the “Little Stamp” award for the best film by a young doc­u­ment­ary film-​maker.

The jury of the inter­na­tional con­test appre­ci­ated the Pol­ish director’s authen­ti­city and sens­it­iv­ity in depict­ing the loneli­ness exper­i­enced by the main prot­ag­on­ist. Chasm’s author, using a small amount of words, but beau­ti­ful images, intro­duces the view­ers into the obsess­ive world of a man for whom the search for gold becomes more import­ant than any rela­tion­ships with other people. The north Siberian moun­tains are the back­ground for the story about desire, dis­trust­ful­ness towards the real­ity, and lonely attempt at under­stand­ing it. 

Woj­ciech Kasper­ski gradu­ated from the Lodz Film School. He makes his films in Poland and Rus­sia. He is con­sidered one of the most inter­est­ing young film-​makers, in Poland and Europe. His films, espe­cially The Seeds, win numer­ous awards at fest­ivals in Poland as well as abroad. He is a par­ti­cipant of the INPUT con­fer­ence, Cannes fest­ival, within the frames of Tous Les Cinémas du Monde and Prix Europa.

(07.03.2010)