2019, 25 min.
2008
Miami International Film Festival
World Cinema Competition – Knight Grand Jury Prize
2007
Sao Paulo International Film Festival
Special Jury Prize
Tokyo International Film Festival
Best Actor Award for Damian Ul
Polish Film Festival Gdynia
Golden Lion Award,
Best Cinematography Award for Adam Bajerski
Venice Film Festival
Label Europa Cinemas Award,
Laterna Magica Prize
Mannheim-Heidelberg International Film Festival
Special Jury Award
Tbilisi International Film Festival
Gold Prometheus Award & Parajanov Prize
Plus Camerimage
Award for the Best Film in the Polish Film Competition for Adam Bajerski
Director | Andrzej Jakimowski | |
Screenplay | Andrzej Jakimowski | |
Cinematography | Adam Bajerski | |
Music | Tomasz Gassowski | |
Art Direction | Ewa Jakimowska | |
Producer(s) | Andrzej Jakimowski |
Stefek | Damian Ul | |
Elka | Ewelina Walendziak | |
Jerzy | Rafal Guzniczak | |
Father | Tomasz Sapryk | |
Mother | Iwona Fornalczyk | |
Violka | Joanna Liszowska |
Six-year-old Stefek challenges providence. The boy believes that the course of small events he provokes will help him to draw nearer to his father, who left his mother for another woman. Stefek’s sister, 17-year-old Elka, teaches him how to bribe fate with small sacrifices. Yet at the crucial point it turns out that children have nothing valuable to sacrifice. In his game with destiny Stefek decides to raise the stakes dangerously….