“The Dog Hill”, a film by Grzegorz Zar­iczny, pro­duced by Andrzej Wajda Film School, had its world premiere dur­ing this year’s fest­ival Vis­ion du Reel in Nyon, Switzerland.

“The Dog Hill” tells the story of four shep­herds who spend over half a year far away from civil­iz­a­tion, liv­ing in a moun­tain hut, graz­ing and milk­ing sheep. The work brings them closer to each other, makes them open their hearts and dis­cuss ser­i­ous things. Though they are of dif­fer­ent ages and in dif­fer­ent phases of life, one topic espe­cially unites them: women. The film was made within the frames of Doc­u­ment­ary Course in Wajda Film School.

At the Swiss fest­ival the film had been shown in the sec­tion “Regards Neufs”, within which the achieve­ments of young dir­ect­ors are shown. This is the first oppor­tun­ity for these dir­ect­ors to present their films to a wide inter­na­tional audi­ence and to the pro­fes­sion­als.

Grzegorz Zar­iczny is a gradu­ate of Andrze­jWa­jda Film School’s doc­u­ment­ary course; at present he is the stu­dent of Krzysztof Kieślowski Radio and Tele­vi­sion Fac­ulty at the Uni­ver­sity of Silesia. Apart from “The Dog Hill”, he is the author of fea­ture and doc­u­ment­ary etudes.

This year’s six­teenth edi­tion of the inter­na­tional fest­ival Vis­ion du Reel will take place from 15 – 21 April in Nyon, Switzer­land. The fest­ival is one of the most pres­ti­gi­ous doc­u­ment­ary film fest­ivals in Europe. Last year, in the sec­tion “Regards Neufs” the Oscar-​nominated “Rab­bit a la Ber­lin” by Bartek Konopka had its inter­na­tional premiere.

More on www​.vis​ionsdur​eel​.ch; www​.waj​daschool​.pl
  (17.04.2010)