MERRY CHRISTMAS
POLISH TITLE: WESOŁYCH ŚWIĄT
On a gloomy day before Christmas Afroamerican Mak knocks on the doors of a small and provincial community centre. Welcomed with honors he soon finds out what "traditional polish hospitality" is. The community awaits EU inspection to arrive so it is the warm welcome just a pure courtesy?
FILM REPRESENTED BY THE KRAKOW FILM FOUNDATION
- GENRE:
- fiction
- COUNTRYI:
- Polska
- RUNNING TIME:
- 30'
- YEAR:
- 2009
- DIRECTING:
- Tomasz Jurkiewicz
- SCRIPT:
- Tomasz Jurkiewicz
- PRODUCER:
- GRUPA NIEFORMALNA KinoFlo
Tomasz Jurkiewicz »
born in 1981, a graduate of film studies at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow and Film Directing at the Krzysztof Kieślowski Radio and Television Department of the Silesia University. The author of short films: "Franciszek" (2005), "Broadcast Rehearsal" (2006), "Sleepwalkers" (2007), "Live Action Radio" (2007), "Merry Christmas" (2009), "Grandma has gone" (2009), "If fish could talk" (2010) awarded on many Polish (Cracow, Gdynia, Warsaw) and international film festivals (Karlove Vary, Seul). Screenwriter.
AT FESTIVALS:
- 9. International Film Festival Era New Horizons, Wrocław, Poland, 2009 (competition)