Close Ties
Poland2016documentary18'Pokaz specjalny (2018)
Forty five years of marriage is an impressive anniversary. Barbara and Zdzisław could be proud of themselves if not for the fact that the husband left the wife for his lover eight years ago. But now they are together again, although Barbara claims that if it were not for his infirm legs, Zdzisław would still be chasing skirts around Kraków. Despite the past resentment, everyday problems with paying bills, an occupied bathroom and rearranging furniture, they have a hard to define bond.
- directed by
- Zofia Kowalewska
Film director born in 1995 in Kraków. She is a graduate of Film Directing at the Film School in Łódź. Her documentary Bonds won more than 40 awards at prestigious festivals at home and abroad (Krakow Film Festival, IDFA, DOK Leipzig) and was shortlisted for an Oscar nomination in 2017. Her next documentary Only the Wind premiered at the Krakow Film Festival and HotDocs 2022. She is a winner of the Trojka’s Talents Award in the Film category and a three-time holder of the scholarship awarded by the Minister of Culture and National Heritage. Cat (produced by the Film School in Łódź) is her graduation film.
- cinematography
- Weronika Bilska
- script
- Zofia Kowalewska
- sound
- Krzysztof Ridan
- editing
- Jerzy Zawadzki
- production
- Ewa Jastrzębska (Munk Studio - Polish Filmmakers Association)
- Photo
