Maciej Kawalski
Directing
Biography
Maciej's short feature THE LAST WALTZ screened at Cannes Film Festival 2014, was nominated for Shorts Grand Prix at Warsaw Film Festiwal and at Cinema Forum 13th International Independent Feature Film Festival. Maciej Kawalski is a laureate of Munk Studio's "30 minutes' program, financing medium length shorts of artistic value. Maciej is an author of the script and a director of an animated film TRIBUTE OF SOLIDARITY. The film have been shown as a teaser to the movie WALESA: MAN OF HOPE directed by Academy Award laureate Andrzej Wajda. Marcin's short film THE WATCHMAKER was shown on a few international film festivals such as Budapest, Shanghai, Cairo and Cracow. Maciej was awarded the second prize at SXSW Festival 2013 in the Chevrolet and Mofilm contest in Austin, Texas. Furthermore, he received commercial grants for Chevrolet at the Cannes Lions 2013 and Fidelity Investments at SXSW 2012. Maciej has been participating in the photography masterclass organized by the agency VII, as well as in the screenwriting workshop conducted by Robert Mckee in London and London Screenwriter's Festival 2013. Maciej is a graduate of Medicine from the Medical University of Silesia. He is studied film directing at the Krzysztof Kieslowski Film School, Faculty of Radio and Television at the University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland.
Known For
In these eight tales set across Europe, singles navigate love's complexities via an online dating site, from marital games to elderly romance.
Planet Single. Eight stories
Mały Zgon may seem like a quiet town - but just below the surface lies a twisted web of crooked cops, drug kingpins and high-stakes poker games.
Little Death
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Lipowo. Conspiracy of Silence
Tadeusz Boy-Żeleński, Witkacy, Joseph Conrad and Bronisław Malinowski, four leading figures among the Zakopane bohemians, wake up after an all-night drunken party. Their hangover headaches are killing them, none of them remembers anything, and finding the corpse of a male stranger on the floor doesn’t help.
Dangerous Men
Wealthy merchant Stanislaw Wokulski falls tragically in love with beautiful yet vain Izabela Lecka. His unfulfilled love leads to many foolish decisions sealing his fate.
The Doll
A remote, and a bit crazy to be honest, psychiatric hospital receives a curious patient —one who he doesn’t move nor speak but spends his days standing with his hands up. The only thing known is his nickname — “The Atlas”. In a word, he is a riddle and riveting one at that, like an itch you cannot quite scratch. Theories and informed-and-fact-based-gossip flourish all around the place. As luck would have it, so does the conflict as what to do with him. The situation is close to exploding, but the Atlas won’t stir. Or will he?