When Harmattan Blows
Poland2024documentary80'Panorama polskiego dokumentu (2024)
Barbara is 25 and lives in Accra. As an 8-year-old girl, she shared the fate of thousands of Ghanaian children who were forced into slave labour by their own parents. For years, day in day out, she had to live in the world filled with abuse, violence and fear. She survived thanks to the help of her eldest brother and her friend, father Piotr. Later, despite the trauma suffered, she financially supported her entire family. However, when their expectations start rising, Barbara and her brother decide to go home. This visit is also an excuse for Barbara to ask her parents some questions that have bothered her for her entire life.
- directed by
- Edyta Wróblewska
Director, producer, graduate of the Wajda School, Camerimage Film School and Berlinale Talent Campus, doctoral student at the Film School in Łódź. Author of documentaries (‘PRL de Luxe’, ‘Ala z Elementarza’, ‘Małe instrumenty'), shown at many international film festivals in Poland and around the world, which have won, among others, the Silver Warsaw Phoenix, FICC Don Quixote, Aye-Aye IFF and Chicago Movies & Music Festival awards. Director of a short feature film entitled: ‘The Road’ and a play entitled: ‘Mulholland Drive/Diane’. Author and lecturer of film directing programs for young people: Film Kindergarten and First Film, member of the Polish Film Academy.
- cinematography
- Marcin Sauter
- script
- Edyta Wróblewska
- music
- Paweł Bartnik, Olgierd Dokalski
- sound
- Dariusz Wancerz
- editing
- Anna Garncarczyk
- production
- Edyta Wróblewska (SK Film Studio)
- Photo
