THE STREETLIGHT MAN
POLISH TITLE: LATARNIK
A short story about a man who sits on a street lamp. A couple of friends returning home at dawn by spot the man. No force or arguments can bring him down. It’s a metaphor of human relations, intolerance, aggression and lack of comprehension.
FILM REPRESENTED BY THE KRAKOW FILM FOUNDATION
- GENRE:
- fiction
- COUNTRYI:
- Polska
- RUNNING TIME:
- 13'
- YEAR:
- 2007
- DIRECTING:
- Mateusz Rakowicz
- SCRIPT:
- Mateusz Rakowicz
- PRODUCER:
- Mateusz Rakowicz
Mateusz Rakowicz »
Graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw and Andrzej Wajda’s School of Film Directing. Directed short films, including the „Streetlight Man”, for which he received several awards. Mateusz directed also commercials and video clips. Co-directed feature film "Warsaw Stories". In November 2015 he shot in Paris a short feature film "Romantik", a Polish-French coproduction. Currently working on a new feature and TV War movie.
AT FESTIVALS:
- Encounters Short Film Festival in Bristol, UK, 2008 (screening)
- Festival International de Filmets, Badalona, Barcelona, Spain, 2008 (competition)
- 12th Ismalia International Festival For Documentary & Short Films, Egypt, 2008 (screening)
- Naoussa International Short Film and Video Festival, Greece, 2008 (competition)
- 24th European Film Festival of Lille, France, 2008 (competition)
- MedFilm Festival, Roma, Italy, 2007 (competition)
- B16, Brno, Czech Republic, 2007 (competition)