Competition of television plays produced as part of the WFDiF’s Teatroteka project
Siostry – dir. Paweł Wróbel
A film adaptation of Rafał Wojasiński’s play, which won the prestigious competition for the Gdynia Drama Award 2019. In the opinion of the jury: “Wojasiński studies people who rather rarely are heroes of contemporary drama. Maladjusted and having no prospects or chances to climb up the social ladder, they struggle for their dignity, their hard material situation, inherited mindsets and imperfect language permitting.“
Roman lives in the countryside with his adult daughter, who takes care of him. Both have been traumatized by life, excluded by the village community and rejected by the rest of the family. However, Roman does not give up and fights for his dignity. He rebels against the reality in which he has been marginalised.
direction and text preparation: Paweł Wróbel
DoP: Łukasz Gutt
set design: Anna Anosowicz
costumes: Joanna Walisiak-Jankowska
music: Jan Królikowski
sound: Marcin Jachyra, Katarzyna Figat
editing: Maciej Szydłowski
make-up: Milena Jura, Ewa Wiączek
production manager: Paweł Mantorski
cast: Adam Ferency, Agnieszka Przepiórska, Małgorzata Ostrowska-Królikowska, Natalia Rybicka, Michał Majnicz
production: Wytwórnia Filmów Dokumentalnych i Fabularnych
production year: 2021
Paweł Wróbel
(born 1984 in Łuków) – A director, screenwriter and musician. He graduated in philosophy from the Warsaw University and directing faculty of the Academy of Film & Television. An author of short films, he is currently working on his full-length feature debut. His film Redaktor has won him the main prize at the festival Nowe Kino – Nowy Sącz 2016 and was nominated for the Juliusz Machulski Award for best editing. For a few years, he played in hardcore punk and metal bands. He played over 300 concerts in 20 countries with the Lowest.
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Polowanie – dir. Julia Ruszkiewicz
An adult son visits his parents in a small town to go hunting with his father. An avid long-time hunter, the father believes that, by upholding the customs, lifestyle and the views prevailing in the hunting community, he is cultivating the values associated with the traditional Polish home, the traditional Polish family. We witness, however, a world that is far from perfect, full of patriarchal domination and violence, in which hunting is a test of masculinity, a field of competition, a symbol of the struggle for power and a way of maintaining the once instilled hierarchies. The hunting outing will unleash emotions that have been suppressed for years and will get out of control.
direction and text preparation: Julia Ruszkiewicz
DoP: Bartosz Piotrowski
set design: Ewa Gdowiok
costumes: Patrycja Fitzet
music: Bartosz Chajdecki
sound: Aleksandra Pniak, Tomasz Wieczorek, Aleksandra Landsmann, Michał Robaczewski, Aleksander Musiałowski
editing: Maciej Szydłowski
make-up: Milena Jura, Katarzyna Wilk, Zuzanna Stefańska
production manager: Paweł Mantorski
cast: Michał Pawlik, Krzysztof Dracz, Aleksandra Konieczna, Marcin Perchuć, Wiktoria Gorodeckaja, Mirosław Zbrojewicz
production: Wytwórnia Filmów Dokumentalnych i Fabularnych
production year: 2021
Julia Ruszkiewicz
A graduate of screenwriting at the Camerimage Film School and directing at the Krzysztof Kieślowski Film School of the University of Silesia in Katowice. Her graduation film Sezon na kaczki has gained several awards (including Grand Prix at the Short Film Festival in Lille, France; for best film (plot) at the Zlin Dog Festival in the Czech Republic, the Golden Tadpole at the Camerimage Festival) and was screened at over 50 international film festival competitions. She co-directed with Karolina Bielawska the documentary film Warszawa do wzięcia, for which they were awarded the Golden Lajkonik award at the 50th edition of the Kraków Film Festival. In 2021, she made the television play Polowanie based on the drama by Ishbel Szatrawska for the series Teatroteka.
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Jamajka – dir. Bartosz Paduch
A comedy-drama awarded in the competition of the Documentary and Feature Film Studios (WFDiF) and the Society of Authors ZAiKS for a dramatic piece for Teatroteka in 2021. The protagonists are members of a three-generation family of intellectuals belonging to the socalled middle class. A school headmistress, Lena is organising a party to celebrate her father’s seventieth birthday. The party is intended only for the closest family members, but the hero of the day surprisingly invites someone he wishes to introduce to the others. A suddenly revealed secret, kept hidden by him for sixteen years, will radically change the course of the festive evening. In narrating the course of events, the director employs the ‘home video’ convention, usually used in such situations. In addition to perfunctory and banal greetings, the camera also captures the characters in situations not intended for a birthday video, peeping and recording reactions and conversationt that should never come to light. This shooting convention puts the spectator at the heart of the events, with the camera playing a role of a mirror for the protagonists to study themselves.
direction and text preparation: Bartosz Paduch
DoP: Maciej Kochajewski
set design: Agata Adamus
costumes: Zofia Bebej
music: Olo Walicki
sound: Leszek Freund
editing: Miłosz Janiec
cast: Lena – Katarzyna Kwiatkowska, Michał – Tomasz Sapryk, Adam – Marcin Troński, Konrad – Wojciech Żołądkowicz, Malina – Diana Zamojska, Janek – Rafał Kowalski, Waldemar – Wojciech Machnicki
producer: Zbigniew Domagalski
production: Wytwórnia Filmów Dokumentalnych i Fabularnych
production year: 2022
Bartosz Paduch
Born in Gdańsk, he is a graduate of film directing at the Krzysztof Kieślowski Film School of the University of Silesia in Katowice and Studio Prób and Script courses at the Wajda School, as well as Atelier Scenariuszowe. He writes scripts and makes documentary and feature films as well as TV plays. He is currently preparing for a documentary series about the turbulent 1990s in Poland and for his feature film debut. His documentary on the history of Polish hip-hop Skandal. Ewenement Molesty (2020) has been recently shown on VOD platforms and in movie theatres. His portfolio also includes other documentary films (including the series Zawsze gotowi, zawsze blisko, Bryła, Totart – czyli odzyskiwanie rozumu, Pułkownik Dąbek. Obrona Gdyni 1939), feature films (the short film Egzamin and short films Bez winy and Leni) and commercials.
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Czy wiesz, kto mieszka pod ósemką? – dir. Sebastian Drożak
It is said that when a person eventually dies, they get to see a short film with the highlights of their life. But who chooses the shots and who edits the film? This question is the starting point for Szymon Jachimek’s surreal parable about… death. The multi-threaded story revolves around several people sharing one floor in an appartment building. Over time, however, some stark differences crop up between them. In telling this story, the director makes clear allusions to various genres: absurd comedy, melodrama, thriller and horror film. That’s with a pinch of salt, though. The play has won the grand prize in the ZAiKS’s and WFDiF’s competition for a drama piece to be produced as part of Teatroteka in December 2021.
direction and text preparation: Sebastian Drożak
DoP: Tobiasz Czołpiński
set design: Aleksandra Reda
costumes: Hanna Bartoś
music: Jan Sanejko
sound: Michał Robaczewski, Aleksander Musiałowski
editing: Tomasz Mączka
cast: Agnieszka Przepiórska, Magdalena Celmer, Lidia Sadowa, Monika Markowska, Sebastian Perdek, Anna Sroka-Hryń, Monika Kwiatkowska, Robert Jarociński, Helena Rząsa, Kaja Kozłowska, Paweł Ciołkosz, Barbara Wypych, Anna Grycewicz
producer: Zbigniew Domagalski
production: Wytwórnia Filmów Dokumentalnych i Fabularnych
production year: 2022
Sebastian Drożak
Mostly working as a director and ocassionally as a screenwriter, he started as a cinema operator in one of Warsaw’s cinemas. The directing studies at the Krzysztof Kieślowski Film School of the University of Silesia in Katowice marked the beginning of his professional path. He has gained his experience in the directing realm on several major feature projects and currently fulills himself as a dubbing director for Polish language versions of cinema films and TV series. He also makes commercials.
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Prawdopodobnie ciało stałe – dir. Katarzyna Sikorska
Jonasz is going to be born as an unwanted child, which he’ll soon realise for himself. Because when mother parents apparently pander to their children’s whims, his parents avoid him at all costs. As he grows up, Jonasz begins to struggle for attention, acceptance and likely love from his parents, though he does not quite know what love is. Fighting in vain, he creates a parallel better world for himself, a world of his own emotions, in which he writes down and analyzes every progress and every failure on the path that brings him closer to his parents. The author who wrote the drama explores this painful relationship in a grotesque convention and the same is used by the creators of the TV play, who create a cinematic parable that is far from realism but is firmly rooted in a sad reality. The play has received an honourable mention in the competition of ZAiKS and WFDiF for a dramatic text for Teatroteka in December 2021..
direction and text preparation: Katarzyna Sikorska
DoP: Arkadiusz Tomiak
set design: Aleksandra Reda
costumes: Agata Stanula
music: Jan Królikowski
sound: Marta Kosiorowska, Agata Chodyra
editing: Maciej Szydłowski PSM
cast: matka / mother: Anna Smołowik, ojciec / father: Michał Żurawski, młodszy Jonasz / younger Jonasz: Cyprian Grabowski, starszy Jonasz / older Jonasz: Kacper Olszewski and: Krystyna Czubówna
producer: Zbigniew Domagalski
production: Wytwórnia Filmów Dokumentalnych i Fabularnych
production year: 2022
Katarzyna Sikorska
A directing student at the Krzysztof Kieślowski Film School of the University of Silesia in Katowice. A director and screenwriter behind short feature films and documentaries, including: Noc za dnia, Na wstrzymanym oddechu and Rozwiązanie. The short films she has made in the film school have been shown at dozens of festivals in Poland and internationally. By birth and mentality, she is a girl from the Lubuskie Region. Prawdopodobnie ciało stałe is her first professional attempt to make a film adaptation of a drama.
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