I NEED THE HANDSHAKES
POLISH TITLE: UŚCISKÓW TWOICH MI POTRZEBA
A small hamlet lost in the endless Belarusian province. Walentyna, who is 92 years old, lives in a little cottage off the beaten track where she takes care of her daughter who was born paralysed. A frightfully beautiful film about limitless sacrifice, great power of imagination and poetry which can replace reality.
- GENRE:
- documentary
- COUNTRYI:
- Poland
- RUNNING TIME:
- 19'
- YEAR:
- 2020
- COLOUR:
- kolorowy
- DIRECTING:
- Andrei Kutsila
- SCRIPT:
- Andrei Kutsila
- DOP:
- Andrei Kutsila
- EDITOR:
- Andrei Kutsila
- PRODUCER:
- Beata Krasicka
Andrei Kutsila »
Film director, born in 1983. In 2007 he earned his degree in International Journalism from the Belarusian State University and two years later he graduated from the Belarusian Academy of Fine Arts in Minsk. Since then he has collaborated with various producers and TV stations as a freelance filmmaker and participated in many international education programmes (including IDFAcademy and Berlinale Talents). In 2018 he won the IDFA award in the Best Medium-Length Documentary Film category for "Summa". In 2019, he was awarded with the Silver Hobby-Horse for the best documentary film in the National Competition of the Krakow Film Festival. He is a winner of the "Gaude Polonia" scholarship granted by the Minister of Culture and National Heritage and the author of the following films: "Focal distance" (2008), "Kill the Day" (2010), "Fight For" (2011), "Enough! To Freedom ..." (2012), "Love in Belarus" (2014), "Guests"(2015), "Passing BY" (2016), "King of the Hill" (2017), "Summa" (2018), "Strip and War" (2019) and "I Need the Handshakes" (2020).
AT FESTIVALS:
- International Festival of Local Televisions Golden Beggar, 2022, Slovakia, 2022 (Grand Prix - GOLDEN BEGGAR)
- Kraljevski filmski festival - International Short Film Festival, 2022, Serbia, 2022 (Grand Prix - Best Film of the Festival)
- Still Voices Short Film Festival, 2021, Ireland, 2021 (competition)
- Docu Film León, 2021, Mexico, 2021 (competition)
- Ethnocineca - International Documentary Film Festival Vienna, 2021, Austria, 2021 (competition)
- Mediawave Film Festival, 2021, Hungary, 2021 (competition)
- Movies that Matter festival, 2021, Netherlands, 2021 (competition)
- 15th Akbank Short Film Festival, 2021, Turkey, 2021 (competition)
- 27th Minsk International Film Festival 'Listapad', Belarus, 2020 (competition)
- International Festival of Local Televisions Golden Beggar, 2020, Slovakia2020 (Grand Prix - GOLDEN BEGGAR)
- HECare Film Festival / Human-Environment Care Film Festival HECFF, 2020, Canada, 2020 (competition)
- WE CARE Film Fest, 2020, India, 2020 (competition)
- 14th Batumi International Art-House Film Festival, Georgia, 2020 (competition)
- PROVINZIALE - Filmfest Eberswalde, 2020, Germany, 2020 (competition)
- PerSo - Perugia Social Film Festival, 2020, Italy, 2020 (PerSo Short Jail Award)
- Northern Lights Nordic-Baltic Film Festival, 2020, Belarus, 2020 (Grand Prix - Best Film of the Festival)
- 19th Euganea Film Festival, Italy, 2020 (Special Mention)
- 8th FIDBA Buenos Aires International Documentary Film Festival, Argentina, 2020 (competition)
- Fresco International Film Festival, 2020, Armenia, 2020 (competition)
- Diversions International Short Film Festival, 2020, Croatia, 2020 (competition)
- Huesca International Film Festival, 2020, Spain, 2020 (competition)
- 60th Krakow Film Festival, 2020, Poland, 2020 (Special Mention (FICC))
- Go Short – International Short Film Festival Nijmegen, 2020, Netherlands, 2020 (competition)
- ARTDOCFEST Russian Open Documentary Film Festival, 2021, Latvia, Russia, (competition)