Adela Kaczmarek
Directing
Biography
Adela Kaczmarek is a director. In the years 2003–2008 she studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow. "Zatoka," her graduation film, won the Special Prize at the OFAFA Festival in Krakow and the Main Prize at the Pole Widzenia festival in Toruń. In 2012, she directed her film debut "Słońce w pełni" and also created the animated documentary "O rządach miłości," which won several awards. In 2018, she directed a medium-length documentary with animation elements called "Janka." It won the Grand Prix for Polish film at the HumanDOC Festival in Warsaw and a Special Award at the Cinema with Soul festival in Warsaw.
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Janka
A man wakes up in a blue room. He's stuck and he can't escape. A window is his only connection to the outer world. It filters the reality in a very mysterious way.
A Blue Room
Podhale, Poland. Winter of 1939. Magda, an excellent skier, joins the Polish Resistance and helps by bringing documents and fugitives across the mountains into Slovakia. One day she learns that a group of 23 pilots urgently need to cross the border, as Gestapo is on their heels. She comes up with a risky plan.
Magda
What if, instead of bombs, we dropped watermelons? Dreamy and hopeful, this animated short sweeps us up into a colourful world where layers of reality and creativity intersect. Our protagonist navigates through it all seamlessly, and in the process shows us the importance of imagination.