DANCING FOR YOU

POLISH TITLE: TAŃCZĘ DLA CIEBIE

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Twelve-year-old Wiktor is a pupil at a renowned ballet school. He’s preparing for an event of enormous importance in school life; the ‘promo show’, which decides whether or not he’ll be ‘promoted’ and move up to the next grade. All the teachers and all the pupil’s parents take part in the occasion. His grandmother is his companion as he practices for the performance, but his dream is that his father, who lives abroad, will come to the show.

GENRE:
documentary
COUNTRY:
Poland
RUNNING TIME:
18'
YEAR:
DIRECTING:
Katarzyna Lesisz
SCRIPT:
Katarzyna Lesisz
DOP:
Michał Dymek, Sebastian Weber
PRODUCTION:
Studio Munka

Katarzyna Lesisz »

Katarzyna Lesisz is a graduate of the renowned Film School in Lodz, Poland. Her short documentary  "Dancing for you"  (2018) has won the main prize at IDFA for Best Children’s Documentary in the Kids & Doc section. "Sashka" her recent short fiction has won Grand Prix at the Ca 'Foscari Short Film Festival in Venice, Małopolska Film Award at the Gdynia Film Festival. Her credits as director include "My Brother's Life", "A New Tomorrow" and "Our little game" which was screened at numerous foreign and national festivals.
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