Date
Hour
Place
04/08
12:30
THE LUBELSKIE CINEMA
Bukolika
reż|dir Karol Pałka | PL | 2021 | 70 min
prod|pro Wojciech Marczewski, Karolina Mróz scen|wr Karol Pałka zdj|ph Karol Pałka muz|mus We Will Fail mon|ed Katarzyna Boniecka dys|dis Szkoła Wajdy
DESCRIPTION
The dictionary definition of the film’s title is “an idealised image of rural life”. Danusia and her daughter Basia live somewhere in Poland, in a farmhouse, and the only way to communicate with the rest of the world are old bicycles. They are symbiotically interwoven with nature, its animals and the spirits of the dead and live according to the rhythm of the day and the seasons. The beautiful, picturesque Pałka’s pictures, however, do not show a rural idyll, but a wooden hut without a bathroom and a longing for contact with other people.
AWARDS
2021 Leipzig DOK Festival – Silver Dove Award (International Competition)2021 Camerimage – nomination to Golden Frog in Documentary Films Competition
2022 Koszalin DFF "The Youth and Film" – nomination to Grand Prix "Great Amber" for Best Documentary Debut
DIRECTOR
— KAROL PAŁKA (1991), a Polish photographer, cinematographer and documentary film director. He graduate from both the Radio and Television Department of the University of Silesia and the Wajda School. He was awarded a PhD in Fine Arts. Karol Pałka’s works have received numerous awards and been shown at international competitions and festivals, and his heroes are excluded, alienated, different people living on the margins. His awarded feature-length documentary "Bucolic" (2021) had a world premiere at Locarno IFF. FILMOGRAPHY
— KAROL PAŁKA2021 Bukolika|Bucolic
2016 Przeszły lata, idą zimy|Years Have Gone, Winter Is Coming
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