VAKHA AND MAGOMED
POLISH TITLE: VAKHA I MAGOMED
A short documentary which portrays an everyday struggle of the two immigrants from Chechenya, Vakha and his son Magomed. The audience is given an opportunity to observe an everyday routine of the couple where, between the mundane chores, proofs of the true affection and care are exposed. Apart from depicting harsh reality of the newly arrived immigrants and their life in Warsaw (Poland), what is the most important one can see how the bond between the father and the son deepens and how, despite of the circumstances, they attempt to retain their identity. The life story of Vakha and Magomed is never fully told, it simply runs in the background and that's what helps to place some universal values up front.
FILM REPRESENTED BY THE KRAKOW FILM FOUNDATION
- GENRE:
- documentary
- RUNNING TIME:
- 12'
- YEAR:
- 2010
- DIRECTING:
- Marta Prus
- SCRIPT:
- Marta Prus
- DOP:
- Mateusz Wajda
- EDITOR:
- Cecylia Pacura
- PRODUCTION:
- PWSFTviT (Państwowa Wyższa Szkoła Filmowa, Telewizyjna i Teatralna)
Marta Prus »
born on 1.01.1987 in Warsaw. Since 2009 she is a student of directing departement at the Polish National Film School in Łódź, previously studied history of art at University of Warsaw. Graduated from documentary course at Andrzej Wajda Master School of Film Directing. In childhood she was a member of Rhytmic Gymnastics sport club IKS AWF Warsaw, then a dancer at Hanna Kosiewicz dance studio.
- 51st Krakow Film Festival, (screening)
- PLUS CAMERIMAGE 2010 - International Film Festival Of The Art Of Cinematography, Poland, 2010 (screening)
- 54th International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film - DOK Leipzig, 2011 (screening)
- 6th Human Rights Film Festival PRAVO LJUDSKI, Bosnia and Hercegovina, 2011 (screening)
- International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA), The Netherlands, 2011 (screening)
- FrontDoc Festival, Italy, 2011 (screening)
- DocPoint - Helsinki Documentary Film Festival, Finland, 2012 (screening)
- 59th Belgrade Documentary and Short Film Festival, Serbia, 2012 (screening)
- Dortmund|Cologne International Women's Film Festival, 2012 (screening)
- UNLIMITED Short Film Festival Cologne, Germany, 2012 (screening)
- Panazorean International Film Festival, 2013, Spain, (competition)
- Opera Prima en Corto Film Festival, 2013, Spain, (competition)
- International Documentary Film festival Off Cinema, 2010, (competition)
- International Film Festival Watch Docs - Human Rights in Film, 2010, (competition)
- Gdansk DocFilm Festival, (competition)
- Gdansk DocFilm Festival, (competition)
- Holland Doc 24, 2012, (competition)
- Lola Kenya Screen Film Festival, 2012, (competition)
- Document 10, 2012, UK, (competition)
- Cine Migrante Film Festival, Argentina, 2012, (competition)
- San Roque International Short Film Week, Spain, 2013, (competition)
- 11th Era New Horizons International Film Festival, Poland, 2011 (competition)
- Silhouette Film Festival, France, 2011 (competition)
- Festival International des Ecoles de Cinéma - FIDEC, Belgium, 2011 (Prix Roger Closset)
- Curta Cinema 2011 - Rio de Janeiro International Short Film Festival, Brazylia, 2011 (competition)
- MiradasDoc Festival, Spain, 2011 (competition)
- 20. European Film Festival for Documentaries dokumentART, Germany/Poland, 2011 (competition)
- 52nd Festival dei Popoli, Italy, 2011 (Best Documentary Short)
- Tampere Film Festival, Finland, 2012 (competition)
- Cologne International Women’s Film Festival, Germany, 2012 (competition)
- West Virginia Mountaineer Film Festival, USA, 2012 (Best Short Documentary)
- IndieLisboa - Lisbon International Independent Film Festival, Portugal, 2012 (competition)
- Thurrock Film Festival, UK, 2012 (Best Short Documentary)
- Ânûû-rû Âboro Film Festival, New Caledonia, 2013 (competition)
- 11th International Student Short Film Festival "Une Nuit Trop Courte", France, 2014 (competition)
- Festival of Film Debuts "Młodzi i Film" - Grand Prix "Jantar" for the best short documentary