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THE ISLAND

POLISH TITLE: WYSPA

A group of people gather for a family reunion in a house on an isolated island. They are waiting for the last
person to join them, but as the evening comes and he doesn’t arrive, a strange anxiety overwhelms them.
The group dismantles and the family members wander away from the house separately, confronting the
sea and an unspoken fear that slowly consumes them.

GENRE:
fiction
COUNTRY:
POLAND, CHILE, DENMARK
RUNNING TIME:
30'
YEAR:
DIRECTING:
Katarzyna Klimkiewicz , Dominiga Sotomayor
SCRIPT:
Katarzyna Klimkiewicz , Dominiga Sotomayor
DOP:
Inti Briones
EDITOR:
Catalina Marín
PRODUCTION:
New Europe Film Sales, Cinestación, CPH:DOX

Katarzyna Klimkiewicz »

Katarzyna is a graduate from the Polish Film School in Lodz and alumni of the Binger Film Lab in Amsterdam. Her documentary Wasserschlacht – The Great Border Battle co-directed with Andrew Friedman was awarded Berlin Today Award during Berlinale 2007. Her short film Hanoi-Warszawa won many Polish and International awards and was voted the Best Short of 2010 by the European Film Academy. Her debut feature film Flying Blind premiered in Edinburgh International Film Festival in 2012 where it has been nominated for the prestigious Michael Powell Award. The film received three Awards (Grand Prix, Best Director, Critics Award) at the Polish Festival of First Films in Koszalin and was released cinematically in the UK and in Poland in 2013. She is a member of the European Film Academy, for many years she was also a president of Film 1,2 Association, which supports young filmmakers in Poland.

fot. Jarosław Pietrzak

Dominiga Sotomayor »

is one of the leading young directors from Chile. Her first feature film, De Jueves A Domingo / Thursday till Sunday, was developed at the Cannes’ Cinéfondation Résidence and won the Tiger Award for best feature at the Rotterdam International Film Festival 2012 as well as best film awards at the IndieLisboa, T-Mobile New Horizons IFF and Valdivia FF, among others. Dominga also had her video pieces and installations shown in Tate Modern and at exhibitions in Santiago de Chile. She directed several short-films including: Cessna [2005], Noviembre / November (2007), Debajo / Below (2007), La Montana / The Mountain (2008) and Videojuego / Videogame (2009) which have taken part and received awards in several international
film festivals.
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