xABo: Father Boniecki (12+)
Grand Prix for the Best Film of the Festival – Big Golden Nanook – and the award of 250 000 rubles
Polan, 2020, colour, 73 min.
Director: Aleksandra Potoczek
Director: Aleksandra Potoczek
An intimate portrait of a man on the road. It shows a priest, aged 85, who can always find time for a meaningful conversation and, simultaneously, remains torn between his faith and concern about the condition of the contemporary Church, in particular in Poland.
With the support of the Polish Cultural Institute in Moscow.
With the support of the Polish Cultural Institute in Moscow.
Aleksandra Potoczek
Aleksandra Potoczek
is director of documentaries and film and cultural programmes. Lecturer at SWPS in Warsaw. She is a graduate of the Jagiellonian University, the Film School in Lodz and the Wajda School. Her documentary film "Voyage, voyage" (2017) received the Silver Dolphin at the Cannes Corporate Media & TV Awards in France and the award for the best education and culture documentary at the World Media Festival in Hamburg. She is a laureate of the "Phil Epistemoni'' award granted by the KRSWK (Rectors of Universities in Krakow) for outstanding achievements in the field of higher education, science, culture and art and its promotion abroad.
FILMOGRAPHY
Voyage, voyage, 2017; xABo: Father Boniecki, 2020.
Grand Prix for the Best Film of the Festival – Big Golden Nanook – and the award of 250 000 rubles
Polan, 2020, colour, 73 min.
Director: Aleksandra Potoczek
Director: Aleksandra Potoczek
An intimate portrait of a man on the road. It shows a priest, aged 85, who can always find time for a meaningful conversation and, simultaneously, remains torn between his faith and concern about the condition of the contemporary Church, in particular in Poland.
With the support of the Polish Cultural Institute in Moscow.
With the support of the Polish Cultural Institute in Moscow.