A BLOCK OF SHORT FILMS BY THE MUNK STUDIO

RE-CYCLE
Genre: animated film
Director: Mateusz Lenart
Script: Mateusz Lenart
Animation: Artur Malczyk, Mateusz Lenart, Marek Wojtyna, Maciej Wojtyna, Mateusz Lendor
Music: Arkadiusz Reikowski
Producers: Jerzy Kapuscinski, Ewa Jastrzebska
Production: Polish Filmmakers Association, Munk Studio
Year of production: 2020
Runtime: 6 min 20 s

Awards:
2020 Polish Animation Film Festival O!PLA: O!PLA Special Mention in the professional category (Marek Serafinski)

Living a solitary life in a world without light or hope, the protagonist loses himself in pursuit of his lost past. A daily pattern repeats itself. Many hours of effort on a home-made exercise bike enable him to create a momentary illusion of his former life, filled with happiness. The cycle he fell into after losing everything he loved is the only one he knows. It is also a personal prison he cannot free himself from and, indeed, he has no wish to do so. Does moving on mean forgetting?

HOME SWEET HOME
Genre: drama
Director: Agata Puszcz
Script: Michalina Fabijanska
Cinematography: Cezary Stolecki
Editing: Magdalena Chowanska
Set decoration: Aleksandra Muszynska
Producers: Jerzy Kapuscinski, Ewa Jastrzebska
Production: Polish Filmmakers Association, Munk Studio, Tito Productions, TVN Film, Coloroffon, Dreamsound
Year of production: 2019
Runtime: 21 min

Cast: Aleksandra Pisula, Hubert Wiatrowski, Marcin Czarnik, Katarzyna Straczek, Mateusz Baran

Awards:
2020 B3 Biennale des bewegten Bildes (Offenbach am Main): Best Short Film Award
2021 Kustendorf International Film and Music Festival: Award for the best cinematography (Cezary Stolecki)

Ten-year-old Olaf lives in a world where hiring family members and friends is common practice. For the right money, anyone can create the illusion of ideal happiness. When the Rent A Life company holds auditions at Olaf’s school, he doesn’t hesitate for a moment. He has every intention of taking part and being cast as a friend at a birthday party for a little girl from a rich family. It quickly turns out that the price of taking part in this illusion is high.

ONDINA
Genre: drama
Director: Tomasz Sliwinski
Script: Magda Hueckel, Tomasz Sliwinski
Cinematography: Bartosz Swiniarski
Editing: Alan Zejer
Set decoration: de Montage
Producers: Jerzy Kapuscinski, Ewa Jastrzebska
Production: Polish Filmmakers Association, Munk Studio, Harine Films, TVN Film, Polish CCHS Foundation ‘Lift the curse’, Expresso Post Production, Sound Making
Year of production: 2019
Runtime: 40 minutes

Cast: Bartosz Bielenia, Magdalena Kolesnik, Judyta Paradzinska

Awards:
2019 Warsaw Film Festival: Special Mention in the Short Film Competition (Bartosz Bielenia)
2020 Solanin Film Festival in Nowa Sol: Special Mention
2020 Gdansk DocFilm Festival ‘Dignity and Work’: Distinction in the Polish Short Feature Film Competition
2021 ‘In The Palace’ International Short Film Festival in Sofia: Main Prize in the section ‘Not Short at all Film’

Ondine was a water nymph, who fell in love with a mortal. Because of his infidelity, she put a curse on him that he would breathe only as long as he remembered about it. And so he died, as soon as he fell asleep. There is also a rare incurable medical condition called Ondine’s Curse. Cezary still lives with his mother. He is in love with Emilia, a rock singer. He also has a dark secret. One day all three of them will have to deal with the mythical Ondine and her curse.

MARCEL
Genre: drama
Director: Marcin Mikulski
Script: Marcin Mikulski
Cinematography: Maciej Twardowski
Music: Maks Mikulski, Piotr Kołodyński
Editing: Ireneusz Grzyb
Set decoration: Zuzanna Walczak
Producers: Jerzy Kapuscinski, Ewa Jastrzebska
Production: 34 Film!
Year of production: 2019
Runtime: 26 min

Cast: Piotr Zurawski, Marta Scislowicz, Tomasz Dedek, Filip Zawadzki, Delfina Wilkonska

Awards:
2019 Film-Music-Painting Festival ‘Summer with Muses’ in Nowogard: Grand Prix
2019 Polish Film Festival in Gdynia: Special Jury Award in the Short Film Competition, Małopolska Film Award in the Short Film Competition
2019 ‘Opole Lamas’ Film Festival in Opole: Audience Award
2019 WAMA Film Festival in Olsztyn: Grand Prix in the Short Film Competition
2020 Sopot Film Festival: Umbrella Statuette for the Best Short Film
2020 ‘Two riversides’ Film and Art Festival in Kazimierz Dolny: Special Acting Mention in the Short Film Competition
2020 Lubuskie Film Summer in Lagow: Silver Grape in the short feature film category
2020 Short Film Festival in Nice: Student Award
2020 Polish Independent Cinema Award (Patron Jan Machulski): Nomination in the category Best Director (Marcin Mikulski), Best Actor (Piotr Zurawski)

Marcel loves his life, because nobody notices him including ticket collector on the bus, the boss in the office, lovers in the elevator ... Unfortunately, his ideal world will turn upside down after saving his neighbour from suicide.

THE END OF THE SEASON
Genre: documentary
Director: Stanislaw Cuske
Script: Stanislaw Cuske
Cinematography: Stanisław Cuske
Music: Jacek Sienkiewicz
Editing: Adriana Fernandez Castellanos
Producers: Jerzy Kapuściński, Ewa Jastrzębska
Production: Polish Filmmakers Association, Munk Studio, Bydgoszcz Film Chronicle
Year of production: 2019
Runtime: 20 minutes

Awards:
2019 ‘Przezrocza’ Film Festival in Bydgoszcz: Nowe Oko (Stanislaw Cuske)
2020 ‘Two riversides’ Film and Art Festival in Kazimierz Dolny: 2nd Prize in the Short Film Competition
2020 DOKer Film Festival in Moscow: Special Mention in the Short Film Competition
2020 Polish Independent Cinema Award (Patron Jan Machulski): Nomination in the Best Cinematography category (Stanislaw Cuske)
2020 Gdansk DocFilm Festival ‘Dignity and Work’: Special Mention

The older marriage sails out on a cruise on the lakes, where they have spent their entire life. The enclosed space of the yacht provokes reflection on the future as well as on what has passed. In the evenings old melodies resound.

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