TO FLY OR NOT TO FLY
POLISH TITLE: LECIEĆ, NIE LECIEĆ
The singular beauty of wild nature is hard to understand. Working in thickets on a thin strip of land between the sea and the lake, bird researchers try to at least describe it setting off on their expeditions regardless of bad weather and difficult conditions.
FILM REPRESENTED BY THE KRAKOW FILM FOUNDATION
- GENRE:
- documentary
- COUNTRYI:
- Poland
- RUNNING TIME:
- 18'
- YEAR:
- 2013
- DIRECTING:
- Aniela Gabryel
- SCRIPT:
- Aniela Gabryel
- DOP:
- Zuzanna Pyda
- EDITOR:
- Katarzyna Boniecka
- PRODUCER:
- PWSFTviT (Państwowa Wyższa Szkoła Filmowa, Telewizyjna i Teatralna)
Aniela Gabryel »
Aniela Gabryel, director. Born in Wrocław in 1985. Studied the History of Art at the Wrocław University and gradueted The Theory of Theatre at the Jagiellonian University. She is currently studying film direction at The Polish National Film School in Łódź and was recently awarded by the Ministry of Culture for her artistic achievements. Her documentary “To fly or not to fly” won Grand Prix in VIS, received Artur Liebhart special award, and is on the list of Top European Shorts of 2014. Her short films have been screened and recognized on national and international film festivals. Currently working on her feature fiction debut.
AT FESTIVALS:
- 6th Iran International Green FF, Iran, 2017 (competition)
- Ningbo Film Festival, China, 2015 (screening)
- 23rd Boskovice Festival, Czech Republic, 2015 (competition)
- Bergamo Film Meeting 2015, Italy, 2015 (competition)
- 8 th "Cinema Verite" Iran IDFF, Iran, 2014 (screening)
- Aljazeera International Documentary Film Festival, Qatar, 2014 (competition)
- 7th Annual Imagine Science Film Festival, USA, 2014 (screening)
- 31st Tehran Short Film Festival, Iran, 2014 (competition)
- 30th Warsaw Film Festival, Poland, 2014 (screening)
- XIV International Documentary Film Festival «Flahertiana», Russia, 2014 (competition)
- VIS Vienna Independent Shorts Film Festival in Vienna, Austria, 2014 (Vienna Short Film Award for Best Fiction/Documentary Film)
- DOXA - Documentary Film Festival, Canada, 2014 (competition)