THE QUEEN OF SILENCE (12+)
Germany, Poland, 2014, 80 min.
Director: Agnieszka Zwiefka
Director: Agnieszka Zwiefka
10 years old Denisa is an outcast in many ways. She is an illegal citizen of a gypsy camp in Poland, a woman in a patriarchal gypsy community and most of all – she doesn’t speak as no one has ever diagnosed her with severe hearing disabilities. She lives in a world of her own, full of rhythm and dance, imitating the glamorous women from the Bollywood DVDs she found in a nearby garbage. Dancing she can be anyone she wants, even a queen, and express what she can‘t say – joy, sadness and fear.
AWARDS
One World HRFF (Czech Republic, 2015) – Czech Radio Jury Award; DOK.Munich (Germany, 2015) – Honorable Mention in the DOK.international Competition; IDFF Flahertiana (2015) – Grand Prix for the Best Film of the Festival
Agnieszka Zwiefka
Agnieszka Zwiefka
was born in 1978 in Poland. For over 12 years she has cooperated with TVP as an author of various awarded TV programs and short documentary forms. In 2007 she obtained her PhD in new media and ever since worked as a lecturer of television journalism and interactive films at the University of Wroclaw specializing in multimedia storytelling. In 2010, she established a production company Chilli Productions that currently produces TV series, programs for TVP and documentary films.
FILMOGRAPHY
Underground City, 2009; Albert Cinema, 2013; The Queen of Silence, 2014.
Germany, Poland, 2014, 80 min.
Director: Agnieszka Zwiefka
Director: Agnieszka Zwiefka
10 years old Denisa is an outcast in many ways. She is an illegal citizen of a gypsy camp in Poland, a woman in a patriarchal gypsy community and most of all – she doesn’t speak as no one has ever diagnosed her with severe hearing disabilities. She lives in a world of her own, full of rhythm and dance, imitating the glamorous women from the Bollywood DVDs she found in a nearby garbage. Dancing she can be anyone she wants, even a queen, and express what she can‘t say – joy, sadness and fear.
AWARDS
One World HRFF (Czech Republic, 2015) – Czech Radio Jury Award; DOK.Munich (Germany, 2015) – Honorable Mention in the DOK.international Competition; IDFF Flahertiana (2015) – Grand Prix for the Best Film of the Festival