The "Kinematografek" award for our documentary!
The documentary "We Are Not Friends" directed by Alicja Sokół received the 1st place of the "Kinematografka" award from the Jury composed of inmates of the Świdnica Detention Center during the 7th Świdnica Spektrum Film Festival.
Stills from the film "We Are Not Friends". Cinematographer: Katarzyna Rogalska
This year's edition of the festival was held under the motto "We want to touch you" – "It's a love letter of the cinema to the audience, because empty cinema halls miss you as much as you miss them" – this is how Paweł Korsuń, the originator and director of the festival, justified choice of using it.
The "Kinematografek" award – given by the prison jury – was awarded for the eighth time this year. The title about the story of two women serving sentences was considered the best. Alicja Sokół, the film's director, and Katarzyna Rogalska, the cinematographer, met the characters during the Prison Art Review in Sztum.
The film crew had to go through a complicated process of getting permission to shoot in a detention center. Although they eventually got them, there were obstacles involved in shooting particular locations and people. However, this did not prevent the film from being completed.
Stills from the film "We Are Not Friends". Cinematographer: Katarzyna Rogalska
"We Are Not Friends" has been in the official selection of festivals such as MŁODZI I FILM in Koszalin, Demakijaż in Krakow, and Long Story Short in Wrocław. It was also presented abroad at the Short Film Market accompanying the festival in Clermont-Ferrand. The documentary has already won at the Węgiel Film Festival in the Best Polish Film category.
It is worth mentioning that another picture by Alicja Sokół – a feature short "My Brother Fisherman" – won the Grand Prix of the Short Films Competition and the Heliograf award for Best Cinematography (Kajetan Falkowski) at the 46th Gdynia Film Festival – the most important Polish film event.
Congratulations!
WE ARE NOT FRIENDS
Two women joined together by their prison sentences, find comfort in each other. They are almost inseparable. Every Friday they broadcast on the prison radio. When one's sentence is coming to an end, their friendship starts being questioned. Is their relationship going to fail, even though for the last few difficult years it hasn't?
DIRECTOR: Alicja Sokół DOP: Katarzyna Rogalska EDITING: Ignacy Fitzet, Paweł Lichota MUSIC: Bartek Cebula SOUND: Filip Szawernowski ARTISTIC SUPERVISION: Barbara Pawłowska PRODUCER: Maciej Ślesicki PRODUCTION: Warsaw Film School
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Alicja Sokół – A third-year student of Film Directing at the Warsaw Film School. The author of a documentary film about relations in a women's prison "We Are Not Friends", which was in the official selection of festivals such as "Młodzi i Film" in Koszalin, "Demakijaż" in Krakow, "Węgiel" in Katowice, "Bytom Film Festival", "NURT" in Kielce and in Clermont-Ferrand in France. Co-writer of the famous mini-series "Random" (prod. Storytel), which is the first Polish production combining radio play and film. |
Films by students of the Warsaw Film School are co-financed by the Polish Film Institute