ARGENTINIAN LESSON
POLISH TITLE: ARGENTYŃSKA LEKCJA
Argentinean Lesson with its visual aesthetics, its rhythm and composition parallels a narration of a fiction film. This is a intimate story of friendship between two kids from completely different worlds. 8 years old Janek comes to an abandoned village in north Argentina where his mother supposed to be a teacher. Janek is following his new friend, Marcia who fights alone through the family crisis, mother’s mental disease and father’s absence. Working on yerba plantations and brick factory, he enters the fascinating world of child fantasy, and is introduced to the bitterness of the childhood prematurely contaminated with the problems of the grown-ups. This is a film with a social content, but after all a love story with many levels where much emotion is to be read in the faces of the characters. Dialogue is sparse, images and sounds give the information needed, to be step by step involved in a drama of “adulthood”.
FILM REPRESENTED BY KRAKOW FILM FOUNDATION
- GENRE:
- documentary
- COUNTRY:
- Polska
- RUNNING TIME:
- 56'
- YEAR:
- 2011
- DIRECTING:
- Wojciech Staroń
- SCRIPT:
- Wojciech Staroń
- DOP:
- Wojciech Staroń
- EDITOR:
- Wojciech Staroń, Zbigniew Osiński
- PRODUCTION:
- TVP S.A., Staroń Film
Wojciech Staroń »
Born in 1973 in Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski. Graduate of the Cinematography Department of the Polish Film School in Lodz and of the Postgraduate Programme at the Institute of Developing Countries of Warsaw University. Cinematographer of many documentaries, feature films (among others Plac Zbawiciela / Saviour Square by Krzysztof Krauze) and TV shows. He is also professionally occupied with photography and has had a number of individual exhibitions, while his photographs have been awarded prizes in many competitions, for example the Grand Prix Europeen de la Photographie in Lille, 1991. In 2001-2003 he cooperated with the Centre National de Danse Contemporaine in Angers, where he worked on multimedia projections accompanying shows directed by Régis Obadia.- EDOC Festival Quito 2012, Ecuador, (screening)
- 11th Era New Horizons International Film Festival, Poland, 2011 (screening)
- DocPoint - Helsinki Documentary Film Festival, Finland, 2012 (screening)
- MoMA's Documentary Fortnight, USA, 2012 (screening)
- One World International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival, Czech Republic, 2012 (screening)
- Docudays UA International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival, Ukraine, 2012 (Main Prize Docu/Life) (screening)
- Norwegian Documentary Festival 2012, Norway, 2012 (screening)
- 27. International Documentary Film Festival in Munich, Germany, 2012 (screening)
- Rooftop Films, USA, 2012 (screening)
- LET'S CEE Film Festival, Austria , 2012 (screening)
- DOKUFEST, Kosovo, 2012 (screening)
- International Documentary Film Festival “Flahertiana 2012”, Russia, 2012 (screening)
- 24. Polish Film Festival in America, 2012 (screening)
- Film Festival Cottbus 2012, Germany, 2012 (screening)
- Pravo Ljudski Film Festival Sarajevo, Bosnia and Hercegovina, 2012 (screening)
- DocsDF 2012, Mexico, 2012 (screening)
- 27th Mar del Plata International Film Festival, Argentina, 2012 (screening)
- Dok Leipzig Lake Festival, India, 2013 (screening)
- 31st Uruguay International Film Festival, 2013 (screening)
- Vilnius Documentary Film Festival, Lithuania, 2013 (screening)
- Nuremberg International Human Rights Film Festival, Germany, 2013 (screening)
- 1st Film Festival Buenos Aires Polonia, Argentina, 2013 (screening)
- 17th Guanajuato International Film Festival, Mexico, 2014 (screening)
- 56th Festival dei Popoli IDFF, Italy, 2015 (screening)
- 54th International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film - DOK Leipzig, 2011 (Silver Dove Award)
- Minsk International Film Festival Listapad, Belarus, 2011 (Grand Prix)
- 52nd Festival dei Popoli, Italy, 2011 (Best Director Award)
- 15th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival, Estonia, 2011 (competition)
- 19th PLUS CAMERIMAGE, Poland, 2011 (Special Mention in the Short Documentary Films Competition)
- Guangzhou International Documentary Film Festival, China, 2011 (Grand Prix)
- True/False Film Fest, USA, 2012 (competition)
- Docudays UA International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival, Ukraine, 2012 (Main Prize Docu/Life)
- The Film Society of Minneapolis St. Paul MSP Int'l Film Festival, USA, 2012 (competition)
- BELDOCS International Documentary Film Festival, Serbia , 2012 (competition)
- Make Dox Creative Documentary Film Festival, Macedonia, 2012 (Onion Award for the Best International Film )
- Silverdocs Festival, USA, 2012 (competition)
- Baltic Sea Forum For Documentaries, Latvia, 2012 (competition)
- Golden Boll International Film Festival, Turkey, 2012 (competition)
- Batumi International Art-House Film Festival, Georgia, 2012 (Best Doc Film)
- Detour. International Travel Film Festival, Italy, 2012 (Best Film, Best Film Prize)
- 7th Miradasdoc Festival, Spain, 2012 (Best Documentary Film - Special Mention)
- "Cinema Verite" Iran International Documentary FilmFestival, Iran, 2012 (competition)
- RIDM – Rencontres internationales du documentaire de Montréal, Canada, 2012 (Best International Medium-Lenght Film)
- 21st dokumentART Film Festival, Germany, 2012 (The Latücht-Award of the Ministry of Education, Science and Culture of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, The Latücht-Award of the Ministry of Education, Science and Culture of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern)
- Ambulante Documentary Film Festival 2013, Mexico, 2013 (competition)
- American Documentrary Film Festival, USA, 2013 (competition)
- Panazorean International Film Festival, Azores, 2013 (International Prize- best long/medium feature-length film )
- Millenium International Documentary Film Festival 2013, Belgium, 2013 (competition)
- CineMigrante Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2013 (competition)
- CineMigrante, Colombia, 2014 (competition)
- iDOCS International Documentary Film Forum, China, 2014 (competition)