Matka ziemia, 2014, 30 min.
2014
Gijon International Film Festival, Spain
Best Director; Best Actor for Miroslaw Baka;
Best Art Director for Katarzyna Jedrzejczyk
Locarno International Film Festival
Special Mention by Youth JuryÂ
Director | Piotr Zlotorowicz | |
Screenplay | Piotr Zlotorowicz | |
Cinematography | Nicolas Villegas Hernandez | |
Music | Stefan Gasieniec | |
Art Direction | Katarzyna Jedrzejczyk | |
Producer(s) | Dariusz Duzynski, Joanna Malicka |
Maciek | Dariusz Przybyl | |
Maciek’s Father | Miroslaw Baka |
Story of a conflict of a father’s expectations with the power and sensitivity of his son. Maciek – the main protagonist of the film – is no longer a boy, but has not yet become a man. He wants to satisfy the ambitions of his father, and – as everyone in the family – be a butcher. But he is too sensitive to make an animal suffer. The boy directs all his warm feelings towards an old, neglected orchard – the only memory of his mother and discovers his supernatural abilities.