30 YEARS OF EXCUSES
POLISH TITLE: 30 LAT WYMÓWEK
REPRESENTED BY KFF
An atmospheric intimate portrait of drummer Michal “Gier” Giercuszkiewicz whose lifelong ambition has been to compose and record an album of original music. It’s a promise that Gier made to the world and to himself three decades earlier. A promise which, plagued by self-doubt, he is yet to deliver on. But the dream does not end there. The musician hopes to record his opus magnum in his self-built rafthouse, in a remote corner of Poland – the secluded mountain region of Bieszczady. The film follows Gier – a hero that is both fascinating and unafraid to show weakness – through what might be his final attempt at finding creative fulfillment.
- GENRE:
- documentary
- COUNTRY:
- Polska
- RUNNING TIME:
- 75'
- YEAR:
- 2022
- COLOUR:
- colour
- DIRECTING:
- Armand Urbaniak
- SCRIPT:
- Armand Urbaniak
- DOP:
- Armand Urbaniak
- EDITOR:
- Katarzyna Boniecka, Armand Urbaniak, Bartosz Klimczak
- MUSIC:
- Michał Giercuszkiewicz
- SOUND:
- Franciszek Kozłowski
- PRODUCTION:
- TVP S.A., Inbornmedia Sp. z.o.o.
- COPRODUCTION:
- Tabla Film
Armand Urbaniak »
Director, photographer and cinematographer. Born in 1970 in Zgorzelec, he graduated from the Television and Film Faculty of the University of Silesia in Katowice, where he studied cinematography. He works on both documentary and feature films.
AT FESTIVALS:
- 24th Ismailia International Film Festival for Documentaries and Short Films, Egypt, 2023 (screening)
- 62nd Krakow Film Festival, Poland, 2022 (competition)
- 25th Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival, Greece, 2023 (competition)
- XXXVII Pärnu Film Festival 2023, Estonia, 2023 (competition)