COMMUNION
POLISH TITLE: KOMUNIA
When adults are ineffectual, children have to grow up quickly. Ola is 14 and she takes care of her dysfunctional father, autistic brother and a mother who lives separately; but most of all she tries to reunite the family. She lives in the hope of bringing her mother back home. Her 13 year old brother Nikodem’s Holy Communion is a pretext for the family to meet up. Ola is entirely responsible for preparing the perfect family celebration.
"Communion" reveals the beauty of the rejected, the strength of the weak and the need for change when change seems impossible. This crash course in growing up teaches us that no failure is final. Especially when love is in question.
- GENRE:
- documentary
- COUNTRY:
- Polska
- RUNNING TIME:
- 73'
- YEAR:
- 2016
- DIRECTING:
- Anna Zamecka
- SCRIPT:
- Anna Zamecka
- DOP:
- Małgorzata Szyłak
- EDITOR:
- Agnieszka Glińska, Wojciech Janas, Anna Zamecka
- SOUND:
- Marcin Kasiński
- PRODUCTION:
- Otter Films, Wajda Studio, HBO Europe
AT FESTIVALS:
- IDFA, The Netherlands, 2016 (screening)
- DocuDays 2018, Ukraine, 2017 (screening)
- Frames of Representation Film Festival, The United Kingdom, 2017 (screening)
- 14th Neisse Film Festival, Germany, 2017 (screening)
- 57. Krakow Film Festival, Poland, 2017 (screening)
- Guth Gafa Documentary Festival, Ireland, 2017 (screening)
- 3rd Visegrad-Turkish Culture Festival, Turkey, 2017 (screening)
- DMZ DOCSInternational Documentary FF, South Korea, 2017 (White Goose Award) (screening)
- Inconvenient Films in Vilnius, Lithuania, 2017 (screening)
- DOK Leipzig, Germany, 2017 (screening)
- Panorama du Film Europeen, Egypt, 2017 (screening)
- Docpoint Helsinki, Finland, 2018 (screening)
- Beloit International Film Festival, USA, 2018 (screening)
- Stockfish - Film Festival & Industry Days, Iceland, 2018 (screening)
- MakeDox, Macedonia, 2018 (screening)
- 69th Locarno Film Festival, Switzerland, 2016 (Semaine de la Critique - Premio SRG SSR)
- 32nd Warsaw Film Festival, Poland, 2016 (competition)
- DOK Leipzig, Germany, 2016 (Young Eyes Film Award)
- Minsk IFF "Listapad", Belarus, 2016 (competition)
- 18th Bratislava International Film Festival, Slovak Republic, 2016 (Best Documentary Film)
- 24th International Film Festival Camerimage, Poland, 2016 (competition)
- 28th Trieste Film Festival, Italy, 2017 (Alpe Adria Cinema Award)
- 41st Göteborg Film Festival, Sweden, 2017 (competition)
- ZagrebDOX, Croatia, 2017 (competition)
- True/False Film Festival, USA, 2017 (competition)
- Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival, Greece, 2017 (competition)
- One World International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival, Czech Republic, 2017 (competition)
- Ambulante, Mexico, 2017 (competition)
- LET’S CEE Film Festival, Austria, 2017 (competition)
- Sarasota Film Festival, USA, 2017 (competition)
- It’s All True - 22nd International Documentary Film Festival, Brazil, 2017 (Best Documentary for Feature or Medium-Length Competition)
- Hot Docs, Canada, 2017 (competition)
- 32nd DOK.fest International Documentary Film Festival in Munich, Germany, 2017 (SOS-Kinderdorfer Weltweit Award)
- EDOC Film Festival, Ecuador, 2017 (competition)
- TRT Documentary Awards, Turkey, 2017 (Best Documentary Award)
- Doc Aviv, Israel, 2017 (competition)
- Encounters - South African IDFF, South Africa, 2017 (competition)
- OsloPix, Norway, 2017 (Grand Pix Documentary)
- Taipei Film Festival, Taiwan, 2017 (competition)
- Al Este de Lima Film Festival, Peru, 2017 (competition)
- Dokufest, Kosovo, 2017 (competition)
- Flickers’ International Rhode Island Film Festival, USA, 2017 (competition)
- Flahertiana Film Festival, Russia, 2017 (Special Jury Mention)
- Reykjavík International Film Festival 2017, Iceland, 2017 (competition)
- Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival, Japan, 2017 (The Grand Prize)
- New Orleans Film Festival, USA, 2017 (competition)
- DocsMX, Mexico, 2017 (competition)
- Ânûû-rû Âboro Documentary FF, Nouvelle Caledonie, 2017 (Grand Prize)
- Astra Film Festival, Romania, 2017 (BEST DOCUMENTARY IN THE CENTRAL & EASTERN EUROPE COMPETITION)
- Dharamshala International Film Festival, India, 2017 (competition)
- RIDM – Montréal, Canada, 2017 (competition)
- Budapest International Documentary Festival, Hungary, 2018 (Best Film)
- Lakeside Doc Festival, India, 2018 (competition)
- Belfast Film Festival, Northen Irealnd, 2018 (competition)
- Festival du film d'education, France, 2018 (Prix du long-metrage d'education)