“Till it hurts”, doc­u­ment­ary by Mar­cin Kosz­a­łka, received spe­cial jury award in the films to 30 minutes at the Inter­na­tional Film Fest­ival in Kar­love Vary.

Dur­ing the awards cere­mony, which took place in the Grand Hall of Thermal Hotel, the dir­ector said: ”I ded­ic­ated this film to my par­ents. I wanted to say some­thing banal: a doc­u­ment­ary film can change the world.”

The film is the fourth part of the TVP2 doc­u­ment­ary cycle “Deca­logue after Deca­logue” which com­mem­or­ates the 20^th anniversary of Krzysztof Kieślowski’s “Deca­logue”. It tells the story of a 53-​year-​old psy­chi­at­rist who lives with his over­pro­tect­ive mother. When another woman appears in his life, a con­flict breaks out. After many years of sexual abstin­ence, Ewa made him feel like a real man again. How­ever, his mother does everything in her power to force him to give up this relationship.

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The prize at Kar­love Vary fest­ival is not the first one for the doc­u­ment­ary „Till it hurts”. The film received many awards earlier: the Sil­ver Dragon at 48^th Krakow Film Fest­ival and the Golden Dove – the main prize at 51^st Inter­na­tional Doc­u­ment­ary and Anim­ated Films Fest­ival in Leipzig. It was also shown at the pres­ti­gi­ous fest­ival Sil­ver­docs in Wash­ing­ton and at the Inter­na­tional Film Fest­ival in Moscow.

“Till it Hurts” was the only one Pol­ish rep­res­ent­at­ive in Kar­love Vary in the doc­u­ment­ary cat­egory, but 8 fea­ture films pro­duced or co-​produced by Poland could be seen at this year’s fest­ival. These include “Pig­gies” by Robert Gliński in the main com­pet­i­tion (Filip Gar­bacz received the spe­cial jury award for act­ing). Dur­ing the Sat­urday show, Mar­cin Kosz­a­łka received an award for pho­to­graphy in the film “Scratch” by Michał Rosa, which was shown in the com­pet­i­tion cat­egory East of the West.

Mar­cin Kosz­a­łka is doc­u­ment­ary films dir­ector and fea­ture films cam­era­man, and also a val­ued teacher in Uni­ver­sity of Silesia Krzysztof Kieślowski Radio and Tele­vi­sion Depart­ment in Katowice. He made his debut as cam­era­man in “The Streaks” by Mag­dalena Piekorz. For the pho­to­graphy for this film he received an award at the fest­ival in Gdynia. His dir­ect­ing debut was the doc­u­ment­ary film “Such a nice boy I gave birth to”, shot 5 years earlier and awar­ded Prix Europa in Berlin. 

http://​www​.kviff​.com/​e​n​/​n​e​w​s​/2009 – 07-​11/​1479-​awards-​2009/​

(12.07.2009)