THE BEST FIREWORKS EVER
POLISH TITLE: NAJPIĘKNIEJSZE FAJERWERKI EVER
The plot of the film takes place in the contemporary world in one of the European cities. It depicts one day of life of three friends who, facing a military conflict in their country, must modify their plans for the future.
- GENRE:
- fiction
- COUNTRYI:
- POLAND
- RUNNING TIME:
- 30'
- YEAR:
- 2017
- DIRECTING:
- Aleksandra Terpińska
- SCRIPT:
- Aleksandra Terpińska
- DOP:
- Michał Dymek
- EDITOR:
- Magdalena Chowańska
- PRODUCER:
- Stowarzyszenie Filmowców Polskich - Studio Munka
Aleksandra Terpińska »
Polish filmmaker based in Warsaw. Director and screenwriter of short films, commercials and music videos. Studied Directing at the University of Silesia in Katowice, and Psychology at the University of Wroclaw. She has made 3 shorts films – Chicken, All Souls’ Day and America – and a documentary – Czech Swan. Her last film America (2015) is now in festival cirut. Untill now it recived 16 awards including Golden Horseman of the Youth Jury at Filmfest Dresden, Best Short Film at Sehsuchte International Student Film Festival in Potsdam, Golden Tadpole at Camerimage IFF, Early Bird Grand Award in Bulgaria and The Flaming Faun at Shnit International Shortfilm Festival. Her previous film "All Souls' Day" was shown on over 100 film festivals among them San Sebastian, Palm Springs, Los Angeles, Edinburgh, Clermont-Ferrand. Received 16 awards, including Grand Prix at Short Film Festival in Drama, Best Short Film at Cottbus Film Festival and PFI and Mastershot Award at Camerimage IFF.
AT FESTIVALS:
- 29th Curtas Vila do Conde IFF, Portugal, 2021 (screening)
- IFEMA - International Female Film Festival Malmö 2019, Sweden, 2019 (screening)
- IAS International Film Festival 2019, India, 2019 (competition)
- Leuven Short Film Festival 2018, Belgium, 2018 (screening)
- 2018 PRINDIE: Princeton Independent Film Festival, USA, 2018 (Grand Performance)
- Brest European Short Film Festival, France, 2018 (competition)
- Poland Now/Istanbul Modern, Turkey, 2018 (screening)
- Open Place Film Festival, Latvia, 2018 (Best Actress)
- 11th International Documentary and Short Film Festival of Kerala (IDSFFK), India, 2018 (screening)
- 14th EURASIA International Film Festival, Kazachstan, 2018 (competition)
- Let’s Cee Film Festival, Austria, 2018 (competition)
- 12th Fresh Wave International Short Film Festival, Hong Kong, 2018 (screening)
- Short Waves 2018, Poland, 2018 (competition)
- Tampere Film Festival 2018, Finland, 2018 (screening)
- 13th Prague Short Film Festival, Czech Republic, 2018 (competition)
- 22nd Riga International Film Festival 2ANNAS, Latvia, 2017 (competition)
- Winchester Short Film Festival, The United Kingdom, 2017 (Special Mention)
- 33rd Warsaw Film Festival, Poland, 2017 (screening)
- CinEast - Central and Eastern European FF 2017, Luxembourg, 2017 (competition)
- Helsinki International FF, Finland, 2017 (screening)
- Dokufest, Kosovo, 2017 (competition)
- 18th New Horizons Film Festival, Poland, 2017 (screening)
- 56th Semaine de la Critique du Festival de Cannes, France, 2017 (Rail d'Or award)