HOUSE OF DEATH
POLISH TITLE: DOM ŚMIERCI
Who said that the old are the first to die? In this tiny rest home, they secretly take care of each other. While everyone enjoys the rituals of everyday life, they want to do more than just wait for death!
- GENRE:
- fiction
- COUNTRY:
- POLAND, GERMANY
- RUNNING TIME:
- 18'
- YEAR:
- 2010
- DIRECTING:
- Matej Bobrik
- SCRIPT:
- Matej Bobrik, Kathrin Schadt
- DOP:
- Remigiusz Wojaczek
- EDITOR:
- Tymek Wiskirski
- MUSIC:
- Michał Marecki
- PRODUCTION:
- PWSFTviT (Państwowa Wyższa Szkoła Filmowa, Telewizyjna i Teatralna)
Matej Bobrik »
Film director and writer from Slovakia, born in Prague in 1982. He graduated from the Polish National Film School in Łódź. His student film “Where the Sun Doesn’t Rush” (2009) was shown at international film festivals such as the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam, DOK Leipzig and Visions du Réel in Nyon. His debut film “The Visit” (2013) had its premiere at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam and won the Silver Eye award at the Jihlava festival. He has participated in the DOK Pro documentary course at the Wajda Studio. He currently lives in Warsaw. “Our Little Poland” is his first feature-length documentary.
AT FESTIVALS:
- Arcipelago International Festival of Short Films and New Images, Italy, 2012 (screening)
- Brest European Short Film Festival, France, 2011 (competition)