Tomasz Stankiewicz :: Szczecin Film Festival 2020

Tomasz Stankiewicz

About the artist

Graduated from the Warsaw Film School, director and cinematographer of documentary films. “A Brave Bunch,” his debut as a director, was shown in many festivals abroad, including Thessaloniki, New York, London, and Barcelona. Received the Best Documentary Children's Jury Award at the 18th Olympia International Film Festival in Greece, the Annie Dodds Award special mention at the Imperial War Museum Short Film Festival in London. Cinematographer for the highly awarded film “Invisible” directed by Zofia Pręgowska. His short “Kultura się liczy” won him the Main Award in the National Centre for Culture film competition.

Fajna Ferajna. Powstanie oczyma dzieci (2015)

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Films

A Brave Bunch. The Uprising Through Children's Eyes, 29' 23''

Production: PL 2015

A documentary film about the Warsaw Uprising through children's eyes, based on facts and full of magical realism. Autumn 1944. The Warsaw uprising falls. Germans expel Poles from the capital. The only thing that fifteen-year-old Michał Pluta takes with him is a diary with entries from his friends from the neighbourhood. It is this diary that inspired the film script. Today's kids find it and follow its lead to meet their peers who have lived through the Warsaw Uprising. Their imagination, moved by the stories of the insurgents, transfers them into the midst of the dramatic events. Each story focuses on a different aspect: Halinka had saved dogs and cats, “Hipek” had been part of the “szczury kanałowe” Scout troop, Jureczek had been nine, the youngest sworn solider of the Home Army (AK).