URBAN COWBOYS (12+)
Poland, Ireland , 2016, colour, 30 min.
Director: Pawel Ziemilski
Director: Pawel Ziemilski
Can a horse save a life? In Clondalkin (Dublin) that’s exactly the case. In a district where there is a lot of problems and not a lot of prospects, young people face drugs, prison and the path of crime. But some of them manage to escape into an unusual hobby. They tame wild horses and become...urban cowboys. When 14-year-old Dylan hits a dark patch in his life, he finds comfort in Shelly, a white mare that quickly becomes his whole world. Even though taming of wild horses is illegal in Ireland and Shelly’s hooves are not used to the concrete streets, their unlikely friendship grows stronger.
AWARDS
Astra Film Festival (Romania, 2017) – Best Direction in the Docshool Competition; Verzio Film Festival 2017 (Hungary, 2017) – Best Student Film.
Pawel Ziemilski
Pawel Ziemilski
was born in 1981, graduated from the Lodz National Film School and from the Wajda School in Warsaw. He also has a Master’s in Sociology from the University of Warsaw. Short documentary and fiction films he made so far received wide publicity at numerous film festivals around the world and got many prestigious awards. His documentary “Rogalik” got IDFA nomination in 2012. Apart from directing, Pawel Ziemilski is involved in social animation, organizing workshops for so-called troubled youth.
FILMOGRAPHY
Rogalik, 2012; Urban Cowboys, 2016.
Poland, Ireland , 2016, colour, 30 min.
Director: Pawel Ziemilski
Director: Pawel Ziemilski
Can a horse save a life? In Clondalkin (Dublin) that’s exactly the case. In a district where there is a lot of problems and not a lot of prospects, young people face drugs, prison and the path of crime. But some of them manage to escape into an unusual hobby. They tame wild horses and become...urban cowboys. When 14-year-old Dylan hits a dark patch in his life, he finds comfort in Shelly, a white mare that quickly becomes his whole world. Even though taming of wild horses is illegal in Ireland and Shelly’s hooves are not used to the concrete streets, their unlikely friendship grows stronger.
AWARDS
Astra Film Festival (Romania, 2017) – Best Direction in the Docshool Competition; Verzio Film Festival 2017 (Hungary, 2017) – Best Student Film.