FIRST POLE ON MARS
POLISH TITLE: PIERWSZY POLAK NA MARSIE
REPRESENTED BY KFF
In the Milky Way, on the Solar System's third planet from the Sun, Kazimierz, aged 68 is mounting a device for communication with the Cosmos. At the same space-time, the fight for participation in the historic Mars One project begins. Kazimierz has a chance of becoming one of the first colonisers of Mars. But first he must overcome some three thousand other applicants...
- GENRE:
- documentary
- RUNNING TIME:
- 39'
- YEAR:
- 2016
- DIRECTING:
- Agnieszka Elbanowska
- SCRIPT:
- Agnieszka Elbanowska
- DOP:
- Paweł Piotr Chorzępa
- EDITOR:
- Katarzyna Boniecka
- PRODUCTION:
- square film studio sp. z o.o.
- COPRODUCTION:
- DI Factory (Sp. z o.o. Sp. K.)
Agnieszka Elbanowska »
Director, editor and photographer. She graduated from the University of Warsaw's Italian Department, from the History, Theory and Criticism of Cinema and Audiovisual Department of the Roma Tre University, from the Academy of Film and Television in Warsaw, and from the Wajda School. She has collaborated with Polish Television, and has co-created documentary films for TVP Polonia ("Liberta", "Prelude"). Her latest film, “The Love Equation of Henry Fast” was awarded on national and international festivals.
AT FESTIVALS:
- DOCfeed International Documentary Festival Eindhoven, The Netherlands, 2017 (The Best Short Documentary Film) (screening)
- 12th Pravo Ljudski Film Festival, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2017 (screening)
- 32nd Warsaw Film Festival, Poland, 2016 (competition)
- ZagrebDOX, Croatia, 2017 (competition)
- AFI DOCS, USA, 2017 (competition)