Ekran Presents: A Short Film Program

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2009 STC, 120 min
In Polish with English Subtitles

Shorts Program

PRL DE LUXE
2008 (Edyta Wróblewska) 15 min
Documentary
Crazy Mike takes international tourists in an old school bus to show them the attractions of living in the Polish People’s Republic, recounting stories from those strange times.


LONG DISTANCE RUNNER
2008 (Jacek Szaranski) 20 min
Documentary
A retired miner from Silesia runs ultramarathons, covering up to 380 kilometres in 48 hours. His achievements are impressive, but there’s one thing concerning a family tragedy he can’t deal with.


4 MARRIAGE OFFERS
2007 (Magnus Arnesen) 23 min
Four lonely people seek love and luck: Businessman Andrzej lives in luxury; Krystyna .a grandmother, though popular, is dissatisfied with her situation; Ryszard lives with his mother; and Agnieszka sacrifices herself to raise her son.


ECHO
2008 (Magnus von Horn) 14 min
Two teenagers brutally murder a friend, but only realize the scale of what they did when they meet her parents.


ESCAPE CITY
2006 (Wojciech Kasperski) 17 min
Based on true events, football club fans start a row and police use live ammunition against them.


IN BETWEEN
2006 (Jose Iglesias Vigil) 17 min
Alicia is pregnant and wants to have the baby, while her partner Mateusz does not. Why? A fear of loneliness and reluctance to face his own existential dilemma.


MALL GIRLS
2006 (Katarzyna Ros?aniec) 30 min
This short film was turned into a feature, screened at this year’s TIFF. Young, teenage girls look for men who will buy them expensive gifts in return for sex, but shy, quiet Alicia’s different from her other mall friends.


Upcoming Screenings

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