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LIFE COULD BE BEAUTIFUL

A documentary about a (film maker) couple who figures out their summer plan: biking through France for three month, following the diary of Andrzej Bobkowski, a polish writer, who did the exact same bike trip back in the 1940 ́s. They film their research first but end up questioning who they are for each other. Life could be so beautiful if there wouldn ́t be fears, wrong expectations and all kind of frustrations. A road trip about a couple fighting for who they want to be, told with a lot of humour.

GENRE:
documentary
COUNTRY:
Poland, German
RUNNING TIME:
62'
YEAR:
COLOUR:
colour
DIRECTING:
Filip Jacobson, Angelika Herta
EDITOR:
Lara Rodríguez Cruz
MUSIC:
Norman Peplow
PRODUCTION:
Academy of Media Arts Cologne

Filip Jacobson »

Documentary film director. Graduated in Film Studies in Lodz University, Gdynia Film School in Poland. Continue his education in Academy of Media Arts Cologne in Germany. He took part in exchange program with EICTV in Cuba, EsoDoc Workshops, Goshort Talent Campus, Polska Doc. Involved in social documentary projects, search for new forms of communications using Internet or non-documentary forms. He organized film workshops for children and youth in Turkey, Romania and Poland. His first short film “Walk” was awarded Students Price Jury on Krakow Film Festival in 2012. In 2015 with artist Angelika Herta created webdocumentary project www.Bobkowski-co-dalej.pl in France based on the journey of polish writer Andrzej Bobkowski.

Angelika Herta »

(Austrian) studied francophone literature in Austria and France and made her first film about Moroccan writers. She worked four years at the University of Bucharest, Romania. Since then she has been collaborating with Moldovan artists in the film project “Talking Letters”, about Romani, the language of the Roma. She lived and worked in several countries and realized documentary films in this new context. She currently studies at the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne, Germany. She was exchange student in EICTV in Cuba. In her work she explores the border between documentary films and art videos.
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