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THE COURTYARD

POLISH TITLE: PODWÓRKO

One of many similar, yet a completly unique courtyard that keeps dozens of vivid memories. For the protagonist – a young boy, it constitutes a safe place, where he's being brough up and first experiences joy, curiosity and friendship. After years, as a grown up man he tries to bring back the memories of those happy days that are now gone. The courtyard that over the past few years has changed a lot still remains a place where joy, sorrow and longing for the bygone happiness are brought together. In his memory the man still cherishes his childhood days. He perceives shapes, colours and sounds with suprising fidelity. "Courtyard" is a melancholic story that shows an attept of bringing back the days of childhood carlessness and reflects a profound longing for a world that is irretrivably gone. 

GENRE:
animation
COUNTRYI:
POLAND
RUNNING TIME:
5'
YEAR:
COLOUR:
kolorowy
DIRECTING:
Grzegorz Wacławek
SCRIPT:
Grzegorz Wacławek, Andrzej Podkański
MUSIC:
Magda Grabowska - Wacławek
SOUND:
Karol Obara
ANIMATION:
Bartosz Ostrowski
PRODUCER:
Animoon

Grzegorz Wacławek »

is a graduate of the Wojciech Gerson Artistic Secondary School in Warsaw, where he studied under the tutelage of Jerzy Mierzwiak, and painting education at Andrzej Podkanski studio. He is a graduate of thedepartment of Graphic Design Academy at the Fine Arts in Warsaw and Animation at the Polish National Film,Television and Theatre School in Lodz. His film debut came with the „Beyond old age” (2010) that was made using an innovative method of baked Raku ceramics, scanned with a 3D scanner and then animated. He is also a producer who creatively produces animated shorts, series and full lenght films in his studio Animoon based in Warsaw.
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