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ONCE UPON A TIME IN ISRAEL, dir. Weronika Szyma, 2021, 11’

An animated documentary in the form of a travel journal. A girl while being in love with a Palestinian boy goes to Israel for the first time. Her simplified vision of the world and a desire to take sides in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict is quickly confronted with the reality of living on the border of Sderot and the Gaza Strip.

Director: Weronika Szyma
Screenplay: Weronika Szyma
Animation: Weronika Szyma
Music: Damian Czajka
Editing: Aleksandra Rosset
Artistic supervisors: Piotr Dumała, Piotr Milczarek
Producer: Lodz Film School

THERE ARE PEOPLE IN THE FOREST, dir. Szymon Ruczyński, 2023, 10’

A lonely man limps down the road. A truck drives up to him. Several armed men jump out of it. They capture the limping man and transport him to the forest. The only witnesses of the scene are people from a nearby village. Since 2021, situations like these are commonplace on the Polish-Belarussian border of the EU, which is the scene of an ongoing refugee crisis. An animated documentary whose creator happens to live in a town by the border.

Director: Szymon Ruczyński
Screenplay: Szymon Ruczyński
Animation: Szymon Ruczyński
Sound: Szymon Kucharski
Production manager: Jan Bazyli Ledworowski
Artistic supervisors: Piotr Dumała, Piotr Milczarek
Producer: Lodz Film School

THE WHALE SONG, dir. Klaudia Folga, 2023, 27’

The life of Mark the pharmacist is a B-class movie. Protagonist escapes into a fantasy world. When a beautiful girl with herpes shows up at the pharmacy. He begins to direct his life as a great artistic cinema, in which he appears as an omnipotent creator. However, the line between reality and fiction begins to blur dangerously. Will Mark manage to extricate himself from the existential vacuum?

Director: Klaudia Folga
Screenplay: Klaudia Folga
based on Mateusz Gholamy story
DP:  Ignacy Ciszewski
Editing: Paweł Madaliński
Production manager: Maja Konopka
Music: Hubert Zemler
Sound: Jan Olejniczak
Sound on set: Szymon Kucharski
Color correction: Milena Wielgo
Production design: Katarzyna Tomczyk
Costumes: Julia Zawadzka
Make-up artist: Adriana Klemenska
Cast: Jan Dravnel, Maja Pankiewicz
Artistic supervisors: Leszek Dawid, Jakub Kijowski
Producer: Lodz Film School

THE CREATURE, dir. Damian Kosowski, 2022, 20’

30-year-old Kazik remembers his childhood when every morning his beloved aunt Dagna would walk him to the school. When the woman goes missing, the boy decides to unravel the mystery of her disappearance.

Director: Damian Kosowski
Screenplay: Wiktoria Czeladka, Damian Kosowski
DP:  Ignacy Ciszewski
Editing: Natalia Jastrzębska
Production manager: Daniel Krzyżanowski
Music: Tomasz Gregorczyk
Sound: Maciej Tobera
Production design: Anna Nowacka-Zapart
Costumes: Aleksandra Dłutowska
Make-up artist: Tola Marczak-Kaniorska
Cast: Martyna Rozwadowska, Mieszko Czepirski, Martyna Krzysztofik
Artistic supervisors: Mariusz Grzegorzek, Jolanta Dylewska
Producer: Lodz Film School