A documentary by Jerzy Sladkowski just awarded at IDFA will be shown in Krakow.
“Don Juan,” directed by Jerzy Śladkowski, won the VPRO IDFA Award – the main prize in the feature-length film competition. The Swedish-Finnish co-production is a portrait of 22-year-old Oleg, suffering from autism, whose mother tries various ways to encourage him to be “a real man.” Wojciech Staroń is responsible for the cinematography in the film, and Agnieszka Bojanowska and Jakub Śladkowski – for the editing.
For several years, Jerzy Śladkowski divides his time between Poland and Sweden, where he lives and works. He is often the guest of Krakow Film Festival, he sat on the jury twice (in 2008 and in 2014), and at the 55th edition, together with his son Kuba, he acted as a DJ during the Industry Party.
We are all the more pleased to announce that “Don Juan” will take part in the competition for the Golden Horn in the feature-length film competition at the 56th Krakow Film Festival, which starts on May 29, 2016.
The 56th edition will also be an opportunity to take a closer look at Swedish documentary cinema. Within the frames of the series “Focus on Sweden,” we invite you to the conference with the representatives of film industry from Poland and Sweden and to the screenings of films from the North. So far, our guests included cinema from Israel, the Netherlands, Italy, Switzerland, Great Britain and Lithuania.
Watch the interview with a director recorded at IDFA: