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POLISH TITLE: PUNKT WYJŚCIA
Aneta rebelled at the age of 19. She went to prison for murder. Nine year later, while serving her sentence, she takes up a job of a carer. Every day she leaves the prison to go to the nursing home to look after Helena who suffers from rheumatism. By talking to the old lady Aneta realises how much she has in life and starts to believe in herself before the hard test which is ahead of her.
FILM REPRESENTED BY KRAKOW FILM FOUNDATION
- GENRE:
- documentary
- COUNTRYI:
- Poland
- RUNNING TIME:
- 25'
- YEAR:
- 2014
- DIRECTING:
- Michał Szcześniak
- SCRIPT:
- Michał Szcześniak, Katarzyna Bonda
- DOP:
- Przemysław Niczyporuk
- EDITOR:
- Jacek Tarasiuk, Daniel Gąsiorowski
- PRODUCER:
- Stowarzyszenie Filmowców Polskich - Studio Munka
Michał Szcześniak »
director and screenwriter. In 2005, he won the best European screenplay award – NISIMASA European Script Contest. The film he directed, based on the script awarded by NISIMASA, “A Boat”, received an many awards in Poland and abroad and was screened at over 30 festivals. Szcześniak is the author of many screenplays such as “Goliath”, “The Dark Side Of The Light” and “The Captain” to name just a few. Szcześniak was also a columnist for o few Polish magazines. From 2010 he has been participating in the documentary course at Wajda School.
AT FESTIVALS:
- Newport Beach Film Festival 2016, USA, 2016 (competition)
- Asi FF, USA, 2016 (competition)
- "Cinema Verite" Iran International Documentary FF, Iran, 2015 (competition)
- BOGOSHORTS - Bogota Short FF, Colombia, 2015 (competition)
- GZDOC, China, 2015 (competition)
- International Bosphorus FF 2015, Turkey, 2015 (competition)
- Gold Panda Awards, China, 2015 (competition)
- Vox Feminae Film Festival, Croatia, 2015 (competition)
- 10th Miradas Doc - International Documentary Film Festival, Spain, 2015 (competition)
- Play Poland Film Festival, United Kingdom, 2015 (screening)
- Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival, USA, 2015 (competition)
- 24th dokumentART European Film festival for Documentaries, Germany, 2015 (screening)
- 7th Baghdad International Film Festival, Iraq, 2015 (screening)
- Budapest International Documentary Festival, Hungary, 2015 (Special Mention)
- IDFF "Flahertiana", Russia, 2015 (screening)
- 28th Helsinki Intl' Film Festival - Love & Anarchy, Finland, 2015 (competition)
- Encounters - 21st Short Film & Animation Festival, UK, 2015 (Honourable Mention)
- Sheffield Doc/Fest, UK, 2015 (Short Doc Award)
- Festival Al Este de Lima, Peru, 2015 (screening)
- TRT Documentary Awards, Turkey, 2015 (competition)
- Documenta Madrid, Spain, 2015 (Special Mention)
- Florida Film Festival, USA, 2015 (competition)
- Docudays UA, Ukraine, 2015 (Docu/Short Main Prize)
- 20th Vilnius International Film Festival, Lithuania, 2015 (competition)
- Sundance Film Festival, USA, 2015 (competition)
- IDFA 2014, The Netherlands, 2014 (screening)
- 22nd International Film Festival Camerimage, Poland, 2014 (Golden Frog — Grand Prix of Short Documentary Film Competition)
- 57th DOK. Leipzig, Germany, 2014 (competition)
- 30th Warsaw Film Festival, Poland, 2014 (screening)
- 14th T-mobile New Horizons International Film Festival, Poland, 2014 (competition)