Was shown in Sundance, was shown in Berlin, and now it will open 51st Krakow Film Festival!
Ridley Scott and Kevin Macdonald invited the Internet users from all over the world to produce a film together. The result stirred a sensation in Sundance and in Berlin. A feature documentary, “Life in a Day”, will open the 51st Krakow Film Festival on 23rd May!
This is a true global film experiment: 80 thousand people from 197 countries have sent to YouTube short films showing one day, 24th July, 2010, through their eyes. The directors, Ridley Scott and Kevin Macdonald, together with a team of selectors undertook the task of choosing and editing the right pieces. The outcome is a unique production which is not just a colourful and dynamic collage, but an attempt on a deeper synthesis. How does a day of an average man look like? Who is the contemporary man?
The film premiered on 28th January simultaneously at Sundance Festival and on the Internet. It will be made available on YouTube once again on its first anniversary, 24th July, 2011. In Krakow, it will participate in the exclusive Documentary Competition, opening the second half century of the Festival.
‘This is the first time I have invited a production to a competition only after several minutes of screening,’ says Krzysztof Gierat, the Festival director. ‘I am happy to share it with the international audience of Krakow Film Festival.’
After the screening in Berlin, the critics wrote:
‘The film watches on a big screen like an impressive, 90 minute long trailer of festival films. There is everything in one picture – illness (‘this is my first poop in a week,’ one of the characters says) and death, unfulfilled love (a man in love desperately tries to make a date) and public marriage proposal, yet another beer drunk on a bench in a park, shopping at the market, and religious rituals.’ Paweł Felis (Gazeta Wyborcza)
‘“Life in a Day” has the pace of a commercial break. It is spectacular, sometimes funny (a Korean travelling around the world on a bike compares the sizes of flies in different countries), sometimes sad (a cancer-diagnosed woman) or touching (a young man reveals to his grandmother that he is gay). Unlike in real life, there is no place for boredom in this film. The audience in Berlin was delighted; we felt like a part of a big human community.’ Małgorzata Sadowska (Przekrój)
Watch trailer: HERE