On the 16^th May, the eighth edi­tion of the Inter­na­tional Doc­u­ment­ary Film Fest­ival CRO­NO­GRAF in Mol­dova ended. From 27 films com­ing from 26 coun­tries, the inter­na­tional jury selec­ted the win­ners – among them, Tomasz Wol­ski, the dir­ector of the doc­u­ment­ary “Goldfish”.

This year’s edi­tion of the Inter­na­tional Doc­u­ment­ary Film Fest­ival CRO­NO­GRAF presen­ted to the Mol­davian audi­ence a full range of doc­u­ment­ary films from all quar­ters of the Earth. Among them, there are also Pol­ish ones: “Music Par­tis­ans” by Mirosław Dem­biński and “Gold­fish” by Tomasz Wol­ski, who was hon­oured with the Best Dir­ector award. 

The doc­u­ment­ary by Tomasz Wol­ski depicts the every­day life of the charges of the com­munity home, who are pre­par­ing for the theatre per­form­ance of the fairy tale “The Gold­fish”. This is a story about the col­our­ful world of the han­di­capped, about their little dreams: Kamil wants to get a driv­ing licence for lift; Marek dreams about antenna, Michał can­not ima­gine life without clean­ing, while Witek hates clean­ing and that’s why he wants to become a porter, and Adaś wants to por­tray the gold­fish in the play very well.

“The Gold­fish” has been awar­ded at sev­eral fest­ivals, Pol­ish as well as for­eign. The most import­ant laurels include: Wro­claw Film Award at the Inter­na­tional Film Fest­ival Era New Hori­zons in 2008, the Audience’s Award at the 48^th Krakow Film Fest­ival, Grand Prix at the Cam­era Obscura Fetival in 2009, and the Award of the Hun­garian Min­is­ter of Edu­ca­tion and Cul­ture at Cine­fest in 2009.

More inform­a­tion about the fest­ival can be found here.
(20.05.2010)