A BRAVE BUNCH. CHILDREN OF WARSAW UPRISING
POLISH TITLE: FAJNA FERAJNA. POWSTANIE OCZYMA DZIECI
A group of children run through the streets of modern-day Warsaw; the city their playground. One of them spies a discarded journal and they are transported back to August 1944.
As the children enter the Warsaw Rising Museum, the exhibits soon step out of the past. Based on fact, with a sprinkling of magic realism and driven by the children’s curiosity, Brave Bunch. The Uprising through children’s eyes relates tender, often moving accounts of those who witnessed the uprising as children themselves, drawing a line between past and present with playful dexterity.
- GENRE:
- documentary / fiction
- RUNNING TIME:
- 29'
- YEAR:
- 2015
- DIRECTING:
- Tomasz Stankiewicz
- SCRIPT:
- Tomasz Stankiewicz, Monika Kowaleczko - Szumowska
- DOP:
- Robert Gajzler
- EDITOR:
- Karol Moch
- MUSIC:
- Krzysztof Aleksander Janczak
- PRODUCTION:
- Text, Prego Media
AT FESTIVALS:
- 18th Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival, Greece, 2016 (screening)
- 20th International Children Film Festival Golden Elephant, India, 2017 (screening)
- International Children's TV Festival Dytiatko, Ukraine, 2015 (competition)
- 18th Olympia Int. Film Festival for Children and Young People, Greece, 2015 (Youth Jury Best Documentary Award)
- SIFFCY: 'Smile International Film Festival for Children & Youth', India, 2015 (competition)
- Imperial War Museum Short Film Festival, The United Kingdom, 2016 (Special Mention)
- 16th Festival de Cine de Lanzarote, Canary Islands, 2016 (competition)
- CMS International Childrens Film Festival, India, 2016 (competition)
- Festival Internacional de Cine y Audiovisual Infantil y Juvenil, Venezuela, 2016 (competition)
- DocuTIFF Documentary Tirana International Film Festival, Albania, 2016 (competition)
- Brooklyn Film Festival, USA, 2016 (competition)
- San Diego International Kid's Film Festival, The United States, 2016 (competition)
- 14th Tallgrass Film Festival, The United States, 2016 (competition)
- Sharjah International Children's Film Festival, United Arab Emirates, 2016 (competition)
- 13th Barcelona Human Rights Film Festival, Spain, 2016 (competition)
- Jaipur International Film Festival, India, 2017 (Best Children Film)
- Indian World Film Festival, India, 2017 (Best Documentary Award, Best Editing Award)
- AnifestROZAFA International Film Festival for Children and Young Audience, Albania, 2017 (competition)
- Dada Saheb Phalake Film Festival, India, 2017 (Best Editing Award)
- Seoul Guro International Kids Film Festival, Korea, 2017 (Best Award)
- New Delhi International Film Festival, India, 2017 (competition)
- 15th Mumbai International Film Festival, India, 2018 (competition)