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‘Lesson Learned’ and ‘Under the Grey Sky’ Win at the 23rd BellaTOFIFEST International Film Festival!
‘Lesson Learned’ by Bálint Szimler won the On Air Main Competition, and ‘Under the Grey Sky’ by Mara Tamkovich won the Polish Competition From Poland. More »
Swimming Pool, The
Basen · dir. Krzysztof Nowicki
Poland 2010, 11’
The story of closed swimming pool at Nakielska Street in Bydgoszcz. Nowadays it is a dispirited, overgrown ruin. However, the director found the second face of this place — seen through memories of inhabitants of Bydgoszcz, who had been relaxing for years here. For them this ruined swimming pool is a piece of their adolescence and reminiscence of happy moments.
| Director: | Krzysztof Nowicki |
The team of young documentaries directors from Bydgoszcz — Darek Gackowski, Krzysztof Nowicki and Monika Paprzycka — seems as The Trinity, but is it true? Undeniably, they are great in independent cinema popularizating. Dariusz Gackowski is a photographer; as an independent artist he tries to make documentaries. His latest Marek — shown at many Polish festivals — tells the difficulties of blind person’s daily life. Krzysztof Nowicki is an author, known for frequent visitors of independent festivals because of Reggae Is My Life in 2008 — an unique documentary about reggae subculture in Ostróda.
Beyond the cinema and wide distribution of multiplexes, the independent film art is being propagated with emotion and passion – this is what members of ‘Koloroffon’ say about their art.
