Only the Wind
Poland2021documentary58'Konkurs polski (2021)
A journey in search of childhood memories. A ninety-year-old man sets off on a trip with his granddaughter to Kazakhstan, where he was in exile as a child in the 1940s. The story captured in several faded photos will turn out extremely difficult to present as the man’s memory fails and time obliterates all the traces. Will the protagonists find a shadow of the past in the limitless Asian steppes? A warm family film about love and memory which proves that it makes sense to pursue your dreams, even if the final result falls short of your expectations.
- 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
- Grzegorz Hartfiel
- script
- Zofia Kowalewska
- cast
- Zdzisław Torhan
- music
- Jesimchan Turechanowicz Tokubajew
- sound
- Krzysztof Ridan
- editing
- Jerzy Zawadzki
- production
- Stanisław Zaborowski, Daria Maślona (Silver Frame)
- Photo
