Arabic Secret
Poland2017documentary52'Konkurs polski (2017)
Kamil Filipek wants to meet his father Ilham Al Madfai. Ilham is a renowned star of the Arabic folk music in the Middle East. The two have never met. The director invites viewers to Kamil’s live, to observe and reflect on the meaning of finding ones’ roots. Can the meeting with his father shed some light on the inner secret - who he really is? This will be not only meeting of two people, but also meeting of two cultures. Kamil represents both of them – raised in Poland, deeply in his soul partly belongs to the East.
- directed by
- Julia Groszek
Director of documentaries and short films. MA in humanities, graduate of the DOK PRO documentary programme at the Andrzej Wajda Master School of Film Directing. In her work she focuses on search for the protagonist’s “identity”. Her debut was "The Doge’s Palace" (2012), a documentary about a closed community of railway workers in Romania. Her short film "Fairground Revenge" (2014) made under the 48th Film Project competition was awarded for the best use of the genre and for the best cinematography.
- cinematography
- Bolesław Kielak
- script
- Julia Groszek
- sound
- Błażej Kanclerz
- editing
- Hubert Pusek, Julia Groszek
- production
- Zuzanna Król (Wajda Studio), Barbara Paciorkowska, Marta Dużbabel (Telewizja Polska)
- Photo
