SUMMER 2014
POLISH TITLE: LATO 2014
REPRESENTED BY KFF
Harsh but poetic, the film is a treaty about the desire of domination and violence as the driving force of history, shown in the spectrum of grey. After a great battle, the surrounding landscape, devoured by great fire, looks apocalyptic. Meaningless flags flutter in a dead field. Sobczyk’s film presents history as a sequence of recurring plagues and misfortunes where man, trying to find his own place, gets lost even more and falls even lower.
FILM REPRESENTED BY THE KRAKOW FILM FOUNDATION
- GENRE:
- animation
- COUNTRY:
- POLAND
- RUNNING TIME:
- 12'
- YEAR:
- 2014
- DIRECTING:
- Wojciech Sobczyk
- SCRIPT:
- Wojciech Sobczyk
- DOP:
- Wojciech Sobczyk
- EDITOR:
- Wojciech Sobczyk
- MUSIC:
- Bartosz Chajdecki
- PRODUCTION:
- Stowarzyszenie Twórców Filmu Animowanego Eksperymentalnego i Video „Studio A”
Wojciech Sobczyk »
animated film director, illustrator and photographer. He was born in 1974 in Piotrków Trybunalski. He graduated from the Faculty of Graphic Arts at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow where he currently works as an academic at the Animated Film Studio. His animated films A Ladder (1997) and Spring 1999 (2000) have been screened at numerous festivals and film reviews in Poland and abroad.
AT FESTIVALS:
- Film Fest Gent 2014, Belgium, 2014 (screening)
- Sevilla European Film Festival 2014, Spain, 2014 (screening)
- 45th Tampere Film Festival, Finland, 2015 (screening)
- 9th NexT International Film Festival, Romania, 2015 (screening)
- 7th Al Este de Lima Film Festival, Peru, 2016 (screening)
- SICAF 2017, Korea, 2017 (screening)
- 12th Seoul Best of Best Animation Festival, Korea, 2018 (screening)
- Animatou - International Animation Film Festival 2019, Switzerland, 2019 (screening)
- 42nd Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival, France, 2020 (screening)
- 54th Krakow Film Festival, Poland, 2014 (PRIX EFA 2014 for the Best European Film)
- 15th International Animation Festival Hiroshima, Japan, 2014 (competition)
- MONSTRA 2015 - International Short Film Festival, Portugal, 2015 (competition)
- SICAF - 19th Seoul ICAF, Korea , 2015 (Jury Special Prize for the Short Films in Competition)
- 14th DokuFest IDSFF, Kosovo, 2015 (competition)
- 20th Split Film Festival, Croatia, 2015 (competition)
- Ottawa International Animation Festival 2015, Canada, 2015 (competition)
- 17th FESTCURTASBH - Belo Horizonte International Short Film Festival, Brasil, 2015 (competition)
- 10th ANIMEST International Animation Film Festival, Romania, 2015 (competition)
- TOFUZI 2015 International Animation Festival, Georgia, 2015 (competition)
- Balkanima 2015, Serbia, 2015 (Special Mention)
- Cinanima 2015, Portugal, 2015 (competition)
- 7th Cut Out Fest, IAFF, Mexico, 2015 (competition)
- 22nd IFF Etiuda&Anima, Poland, 2015 (competition)
- 13th Tindirindis International Animated Film Festival, Lithuania, 2015 (Special Mention)
- 12th Animateka International Animation Festival, Slovenia, 2015 (2 Reels Jury Grand Prix)
- IN THE PALACE International Short FF 2015, Bulgaria, 2015 (competition)
- 9th Forum for Animation Films, Egypt , 2016 (Best Animation, Best Idea, The Prize of Creativity)
- Monstra - Lisbon Animated Film Festival 2016, Portugal, 2016 (competition)
- 63rd Belgrade Documentary and Short Film Festival, Serbia, 2016 (competition)
- 26th Mediawave – Another Connection International Film and Music Gathering, Hungary, 2016 (competition)
- 10th Tehran International Animation Festival, Iran, 2017 (competition)
- 2nd Animavi International Film Festival of Poetic Animation, Italy, 2017 (competition)