Krzysztof Kieslowski Scripteast Award Sandra Buchta 2021 at a Ceremony During the Festival to the Best Script Amongst These 12 Projects
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Strip your script. STRIP YOUR SCRIPT. MAKE IT BETTER. WE WILL IT TAKE WORLDWIDE 12 BEST CCE SCRIPTS DEVELOPED WITHIN XV SCRIPTEAST Dear Friends, After what has been a truly difficult year for the film business in Europe, we are finally ALMOST HAPPY MARIJA’S SILENCE seeing light at the end of the tunnel. As of now, production is ramping up, cinemas are Ewa Podgórska, Sebastian Wasiński Dāvis Sīmanis opening up again across the continent, and film festivals and markets are again taking POLAND LATVIA place with the physical presence of film lovers, critics, buyers and sellers, and filmmak- AN ENEMY MISS KEBAB ers. The XV ScripTeast edition has so far only happened online since the writers joined the Teresa Zofia Czepiec, Kamila Czul, Natalia Koryncka-Gruz program in October last year, but we are so happy to be able to welcome them in person Maciej Sobieszczański POLAND POLAND to this year’s Cannes Film Festival. A SENSITIVE MAN THE BORDER We are delighted to present 12 scripts covering a multitude of different genres, illus- Eryk Lenartowicz, Yvette Underwood trating the diversity of scripts emerging from the region. They include various forms of Tomas Klein, Kateřina Traburová, POLAND, AUSTRALIA drama, such as culture clash, psychological, immigration, ensemble, and historical, as Lucie Vaňková well as different kinds of comedy and comedy-dramas covering social realism, crime, CZECH REPUBLIC THE CASE OF E.E. coming-of-age and ecological themes. GROUND ZERO Paweł Grajnert, Maja Costa, The ScripTeast Artistic Board will present the Krzysztof Kieslowski ScripTeast Award Sandra Buchta 2021 at a ceremony during the Festival to the best script amongst these 12 projects. Zhanna Ozirna POLAND UKRAINE While we are celebrating the 15th edition this year with 45 completed films thus far, we are also commemorating what would have been Kieslowski’s 80th birthday, who passed INCIDENT THE WHITE MARE away much too early in 1996. Tomasz Wolski, Katarzyna Tybinka Teodor Kuhn SLOVAKIA As always, we owe thanks and gratitude to great Creative Advisors who have helped the POLAND writers during the program with their expertise and experience, to the Heads of Studies; Christian Routh and Tom Abrams, and to all partners without whom this program would LEARN TO CRY THE ELEVATOR not be possible. Denijal Hasanović Aleksandar Spasov, Miglena Dimova BOSNIA & HERZEGOVINA BULGARIA Violetta Kamińska, Izabela Wójcik, Dariusz Jabłoński 2 XV SCRIPTEAST ALMOST HAPPY ALMOST HAPPY EWA PODGÓRSKA Ewa is a film director, screenwriter and journalist. In a happy marriage, no one will hear you scream. Polish critics recognized her „as a part of the New SEBASTIAN WASIŃSKI Wave in Polish cinema”. Her full-length documen- Ewa and Igor are a young married The key dramatic moment of the film is tary debut “Diagnosis” was premiered at IDFA in POLAND Amsterdam and shown on three continents. The couple. They are settling into their new also a bold subversion of genre as the Polish Film Academy nominated “Diagnosis” for „dream” apartment. When Ewa finds story transforms from thriller to drama. „Best Documentary”. Ewa herself received a nomi- out she is pregnant, she hides it from nation for the Krzysztof Krauze Prize for “Director of her husband and secretly decides to Terrified, Ewa runs into the forest, the Year 2019” by the Polish Directors’ Guild, as well have an abortion. This is forbidden but quickly realizes that running away as a nomination for ELBE DOK for “Best Debut from in Poland, so she confides in a girl- makes no sense. She goes back to the Central Europe”. She is a graduate of the National friend who helps her arrange an illegal car and returns home where a cruel Film School in Lodz, the University of Lodz and Wajda School. She is a member of the European Film procedure. Following instructions, Ewa game begins. Ewa wants to leave. Igor Academy. blindfolds herself and is driven by an wants Ewa to stay and give birth to unseen stranger to a doctor who will his child. Neither wants to step down. Two-time scholarship holder of the Polish Film help her. Eventually, Ewa is tied to her husband Institute. His debut screenplay for the feature film with a rope. The brand new „dream” “There will be no other end of the world” was admit- When Ewa is blindfolded, the screen is apartment has become a battlefield ted to the Torino Film Lab workshops. The script completely blank. where neither side can win. has a producer and is currently in development. A graduate of the Faculty of Journalism and Political Science at the University of Warsaw and screen- The drive is so long that Ewa loses her writing at the Academy of Film and Television, also a bearings and the car finally stops in a one-year course in writing at StoryLab. pro. Author remote area. Removing her blindfold of many advertising campaigns for the largest Ewa discovers it is her husband Igor companies in Poland. Winner of the “Creative of the who has been driving her. She has Year” Award. He supports the organization “Open been betrayed. Cages”, which helps farm animals. 4 5 XV SCRIPTEAST AN ENEMY AN ENEMY Teresa Zofia Czepiec born in Belgium, Polish film TERESA ZOFIA CZEPIEC In modern uncertain times, a 9-year-old rebel girl (Sara) travels alone from Poland director, screenwriter and storyboard artist. By to Belgium, desperately searching for her birth mother, who left her wanting to find MACIEJ SOBIESZCZAŃSKI means of film she tells stories of people living in her own place in life. conflict between what is individual and social. Her POLAND experimental documentary “SUPERUNIT”, has been The 9-year-old Sara arrives in Belgium after all. Relieved, she makes her vow shown at over 90 festivals around the world and has from Poland, stowed away in the luggage never to leave her daughter alone again. won many prestigious awards. Thanks to the win at compartment of a bus. Authorities who But Joanna is burdened by a dark secret the “It’s All True” festival, the film was on an Oscar preliminary list and nominated for Cinema Eye captured her learn that she has arrived and knows that some wounds cannot Honors Award. She studied architecture, visual arts to search for her mother (Joanna), who be healed. Sara – on the other hand – (Le Fresnoy, France) and film directing (Krzysztof abruptly left Poland and has not been in remains determined that love will finally Kieślowski Film School, Poland). Currently, she is contact ever since. When the immigration prevail. preparing her feature film debut “An enemy”. staff finally locate Joanna, Sara learns that her mother has a new family now. An Enemy begins as a survival story, Maciej Sobieszczański has many international turns into a combination of drama and awards to his name, including the Think: The Award The subsequent clash between the thriller, and finally a tale about uncondi- at Berlinale 2015. His last film, The Reconciliation, child’s expectations and the harsh reality tional love. received an award in the First Look section of the turns out to be incredibly painful, but Locarno International Film Festival and an award Sara is nonetheless determined to fight for Best Directing at the Montreal IFF in 2017. The script Brother won The XIV Krzysztof Kieślowski for her mother’s love, whatever it takes. ScripTeast award in 2020, Script Wars (Mazovia Film She provokes and rages at her mother’s Institution 2019), and the Polish Film Institute Script new family and those around her and Competition (2020). ends up endangering both herself and others. Under intense pressure, Joanna finally admits that she did abandon Sara 6 7 XV SCRIPTEAST A SENSITIVE MAN A SENSITIVE MAN TOMAS KLEIN Tomas Klein studied directing at the Film and TV The twelve-year-old Elias and his family have been travelling across Europe as nomadic actors, but this School of Academy of Performing Arts in Prague. lifestyle is killing Mom and she must return to Czechia for treatment. While his mother is in hospital, KATEŘINA TRABUROVÁ His student films were screened worldwide, in- Elias’s father is wrongly accused of murder. Elias, Dad and Baby Brother go on the run. They must evade LUCIE VAŇKOVÁ cluding Retriever presented in the Cinéfondation a vigilante biker gang and other cruel inhabitants of the region in order to survive. section of the Cannes FF. He worked as 2AD on The Eliáš (12), Mom (35), Dad (55) and Baby Broth- actor he took him for, but also a coward, alco- CZECH REPUBLIC Wolf from the Royal Vineyard Street, which he later er (1) return to Czechia after years of travels holic and liar... finished after Jan Němec passed away. The film through Western Europe as nomadic actors was awarded with the Special Jury Award at Karlovy hoping to settle down and start a normal life. The family crosses paths with local girl Světla- Vary FF and presented at the Rotterdam FF. Instead of an idyllic homecoming, they are na, who is trying to escape from her despotic greeted by Mom’s father, Grandpa GraperR, lover BISON, the chief of the militia, and marry While studying at the Production Department at in his filthy flat, where he is awaiting death. her true love Kájin. Eliáš abandons Dad to his FAMU, Kateřina Traburová produced The Collision own devices and tries to save Světlana from Bi- by Šimon Štefanides, nominated for BAFTA Awards Exhausted Mom collapses. When Dad takes 2017 and Czech Student Lion Award 2017. She her to the hospital, Eliáš is afraid of the old man son. They eventually steal a boat and row away works regularly with the documentarist Francesco and locks him in his room.