PEOPLE & THINGS
POLISH TITLE: LUDZIE I RZECZY
Olena arrives with her daughter, Kira, and boyfriend, Timur, in a small town in eastern Ukraine to receive the results of a DNA test confirming that her husband, Ilya, who disappeared during the war, is dead.
- GENRE:
- fiction
- COUNTRY:
- Poland
- RUNNING TIME:
- 21'
- YEAR:
- 2024
- COLOUR:
- colour
- DIRECTING:
- Damian Kosowski
- SCRIPT:
- Damian Kosowski
- EDITOR:
- Natalia Jacheć
- CAST:
- Oksana Cherkashyna, Kira Makidon, Stanislav Voitsekhovskyi, Grażyna Misiorowska
- SOUND:
- Adam Sypka
- PRODUCTION:
- Ewa Jastrzębska, Jerzy Kapuściński, Magdalena Tomanek
Damian Kosowski »
Damian Kosowski, born in 1993 in Radomsko, Poland. A graduate from the Department of the Visual Arts at the Academy of Fine Arts in Lodz, Poland and from the Film and Television Department at the Polish National Film School in Lodz. Scholarship holder of the The Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava, Slovakia (VŠVU) and the INSAS Film and Drama School in Brussels, Belgium. The director of 13 short films. His last short fiction „By the Time I Fall Asleep” has been screened at more than 30 festivals around the world and received several awards. Currently he works on his feature debut and a short film „People & Things”. Participant of many exhibitions in Poland and Europe.
AT FESTIVALS:
- Sundance Film Festival 2025, USA, 2025 (competition)
- The Bratislava International Film Festival FEBIOFEST, 2025, Slovakia, 2025 (competition)
- 65th Krakow Film Festival, 2025, Poland, 2025 (Special Mention)
- Fear No Film Festival, 2025, USA, 2025 (Distinction for Best Production Design)
- International Film Festival Art Film, 2025, Slovakia, 2025 (competition)
- L.A. Shorts International Film Festival, 2025, USA, 2025 (Best International)
- 29. Flickers' Rhode Island International Film Festival, USA, 2025, 2025 (competition)
- Victory International Film Festival, 2025, USA, 2025 (competition)
- Bolton International Film Festival, 2025, United Kingdom, 2025 (competition)
- Santa Cruz Film Festival, 2025, USA, 2025 (Best Short Film)
- Cambridge Film Festival, 2025, United Kingdom, 2025 (competition)
- FilmFestival Cottbus, 2025, Germany, 2025 (Best Short Film)
- European Film Festival Scanorama, 2025. Lithuania, 2025 (competition)
- Oslo Film Festival, 2025. Norway, 2025 (Best Short Film)
- Aguilar Film Festival, 2025, Spain, 2025 (competition)