THE FIRST DAY
POLISH TITLE: PIERWSZY DZIEŃ
It’s a story about one of the most important moments in everybody’s life. About the first border young people have to cross to become adults. In case of this film it’s a few children from tundra moved to the urban environment. The film was made within the framework of the "Russia-Poland. New Gaze" project (second edition).
FILM REPRESENTED BY THE KRAKOW FILM FOUNDATION
- GENRE:
- documentary
- RUNNING TIME:
- 20'
- YEAR:
- 2007
- DIRECTING:
- Marcin Sauter
- DOP:
- Marcin Sauter
- PRODUCER:
- Krzysztof Kopczyński - Eureka Media
Marcin Sauter »
Photographer, cinematographer and film director. Born in 1971 in Bydgoszcz. A member of the Association of Polish Art Photographers, he has had several dozen individual exhibitions of photography. He teaches at the Andrzej Wajda Master School of Film Directing. He established the foundation The Bydgoszcz Newsreel. His adventure with the cinema started in 1997 when he cooperated with Maciej Cuske on the feature film "What Do You Think About It, Gałuszko?". Then, he continued with such documentaries as "The Travelling Cinema" (2005), "North From Calabria" (2009) and "Hakawati" (2011).
AT FESTIVALS:
- 8th Concorto Film Festival, Pontenure (Piacenza), Italy, 2009 (screening)
- Polish Film Festival – Journey to Poland, Bristol, UK, 2009 (screening)
- 4th ViBGYOR Film Festival for Short & Documentary films, Thrissur, Kerala, India, 2009 (competition)
- L'Alternativa - Festival de Cine Independent de Barcelona, Spain, 2008 (screening)
- CPH:DOX, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2008 (screening)
- 12th Ismalia International Festival For Documentary & Short Films, Egypt, 2008 (competition)
- Etnia Film Festival, Turku, Finland, 2008 (competition)
- DOCSDF - International Documentary Film Festival of Mexico City, 2008 (competition)
- EUROfEST 2008 Documentary Competition, Montreal, Kanada, 2008 (competition)
- 6th Open Russian Anthropological Film Festival, Yekaterinburg, Russia, 2008 (competition)
- Sardinia International Ethnographic Film Festival, Nuoro, Sardinia, 2008 (competition)
- 7th DokuFest Film Festival, Kosovo, 2008 (competition)
- Pärnu International Film Festival, Estonia, 2008 (competition)
- International Short Film Festival IN THE PALACE, Sofia, Bulgaria, 2008 (screening)
- Silverdocs Festival, USA, 2008 (competition)
- Huesca International Film Festival, Spain, 2008 (competition)
- Green Film Festival in Seoul, 2008 (screening)
- Mediawave International Film and Music Festiwal, Hungary, 2008 (The KPMG Responsible Society Award)
- 4th Ukrainian International Documentary Film Festival "Contact", Kyiv, Ukraine, 2008 (competition)
- Belfast Film Festival, Ireland, 2008 (competition)
- DocAviv, Tel Aviv, Israel, 2008 (competition)
- Human Right Documentary Film Days, Kyiv, Ukraine, 2008 (competition)
- Jean Rouch Film Festival, 2008 (screening)
- Cinéma du Réel, Paris, France, 2008 (screening)
- One World International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival, Prague, Czech Republic, 2008 (competition)
- True/False Film Festival, USA, 2008 (screening)
- 4. Zagreb Dox, Croatia, 2008 (competition)
- Voyage Film Festival, London, UK2007 (screening)
- Festival Doc en Courts, Lyon, 2007 (competition)
- Siena International Short Film Festival, 2007 (competition)
- Festival de Cine de Alcala de Henares, Spain, 2007 (competition)
- Sheffield Doc/Fest, 2007 (screening)
- The International Short Film Festival Winterthur, Switzerland, 2007 (competition)
- International Short Film Festival interfilm, Berlin, Germany, 2007 (competition)
- DokLeipzig - International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film, Germany, 2007 (competition)
- DocLisboa - Lisbon International Documentary Film Festival 2007, Portugal, 2007 (competition)
- 7th Era New Horizons International Film Festival, Poland, 2007 (competition)