A VISIT
POLISH TITLE: ODWIEDZINY
REPRESENTED BY KFF
In a care home surrounded by magical forest deep in the middle of nowhere, the residents lead quiet, unruffled lives. Only Sundays seem to bring any variety. For Sunday is visiting day. On Sunday, the residents’ preparations for their families’ arrival start with the early morning. Yet with every passing hour their hope of seeing their loved ones dwindles. They have no choice but to believe that their visitors have lost their way in the forest. But they are sure to come next week.
FILM REPRESENTED BY THE KRAKOW FILM FOUNDATION
- GENRE:
- documentary
- COUNTRY:
- POLAND
- RUNNING TIME:
- 11'
- YEAR:
- 2013
- DIRECTING:
- Matej Bobrik
- SCRIPT:
- Matej Bobrik
- DOP:
- Artur Sienicki
- EDITOR:
- Grzegorz Szczepaniak
- PRODUCTION:
- Stowarzyszenie Filmowców Polskich - Studio Munka , Karolew Film
Matej Bobrik »
Film director and writer from Slovakia, born in Prague in 1982. He graduated from the Polish National Film School in Łódź. His student film “Where the Sun Doesn’t Rush” (2009) was shown at international film festivals such as the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam, DOK Leipzig and Visions du Réel in Nyon. His debut film “The Visit” (2013) had its premiere at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam and won the Silver Eye award at the Jihlava festival. He has participated in the DOK Pro documentary course at the Wajda Studio. He currently lives in Warsaw. “Our Little Poland” is his first feature-length documentary.
AT FESTIVALS:
- IDFA - International Documentary Festival Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2013 (screening)
- 16th Doc Aviv Film Festival, 2014 (screening)
- 30th Warsaw Film Festival, Poland, 2014 (screening)
- Festival Al Este de Lima, Peru, 2015 (screening)
- IDFF "Flahertiana", Russia, 2015 (screening)
- Semana del Cortometraje de la Comunidad de Madrid, Spain, 2016 (screening)
- Festival de Finos Filmes, Brazil, 2019 (screening)
- Quebec City Film Festival 2019, Canada, 2019 (screening)
- 13. T-mobile New Horizons, Poland, 2013 (competition)
- One World International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival, Czech Republic, 2014 (competition)
- It's All True - 19th IDFF Brazil, 2014 (competition)
- 17th Ismailia IFF for Documentary & Shorts, Egypt, 2014 (competition)
- AFI Docs, USA, 2014 (competition)
- KALIBER 35 Munich International Short Film Festival, Germany, 2014 (competition)
- 12th International Short Film Festival IN THE PALACE, Bulgaria, 2014 (Best Documentary Film)
- "Love and anarchy" Helsinki International Film Festival, Finland, 2014 (competition)
- Szczecin European Film Festival, Poland/Germany, 2014 (competition)
- 14th Un festival c'est trop court, France , 2014 (competition)
- 12th FIKE International Short Film Festival, Portugal, 2014 (competition)
- 30th interfilm International Short Film Festival, Germany, 2014 (competition)
- 2014 International “Gold Panda” Awards for Documentary, China, 2014 (competition)
- 18th Unithea Theatre Festival, Germany, 2015 (competition)