HAKAWATI
‘Hakawati’ in the Arab tradition is a master of storytelling, a brilliant raconteur who tells stories to everybody willing to listen. Hakawati played a very important role in the Arab culture: they gathered crowds of people eager to hear new fairy tales and strange stories. And now there are no real Hakawati left. In the contemporary world people have no time to listen to stories. The director sets off to search for true storytellers and finds the remnants of the tradition, which, unfortunately, are rather for camera‑holding tourists than local people.
- GENRE:
- documentary
- RUNNING TIME:
- 40'
- YEAR:
- 2011
- DIRECTING:
- Marcin Sauter
- SCRIPT:
- Marcin Sauter
- DOP:
- Marcin Sauter
- EDITOR:
- Agnieszka Glińska
- MUSIC:
- Raphael Rogiński
- PRODUCTION:
- Studio Filmowe Kalejdoskop
Marcin Sauter »
Photographer, cinematographer and film director. Born in 1971 in Bydgoszcz. A member of the Association of Polish Art Photographers, he has had several dozen individual exhibitions of photography. He teaches at the Andrzej Wajda Master School of Film Directing. He established the foundation The Bydgoszcz Newsreel. His adventure with the cinema started in 1997 when he cooperated with Maciej Cuske on the feature film "What Do You Think About It, Gałuszko?". Then, he continued with such documentaries as "The Travelling Cinema" (2005), "North From Calabria" (2009) and "Hakawati" (2011).
AT FESTIVALS:
- DOCUMENTARIST Istanbul Documentary Days 2012, Turkey, 2012 (screening)
- URBAN-TV 2012, X International Television Festival on Urban Life and Ecology, Spain, 2012 (competition)