Resettlement / Eksmisja
feature documentary, dir. Filip Antoni Malinowski
in Austrian cinemas from March 22nd 2013
RESETTLEMENT / EKSMISJA A unique Polish couple in their 80s. After living for 66 years in their flat, they have to move out. While MARIA is an extraordinary spirit full of sparkling optimism and vitality - TADEUSZ is a silent scientist and a fatalist. Now they have to fight their existential disaster that unveils the touching stories of their life and casts a shadow over their present. It's a film about justice and equality - the crisis of morality in past and present modern society, as well as about how to get old - staying young.
documentary, Austria/Poland/Switzerland 2012 76 mins, Polish/German with subtitles (52min version: 2013)
production company Soleil Film GmbH, Malina Film (PL), RebelMango (CH) other titles EKSMISJA (PL), MARIA MUSS PACKEN (DE) producers Filip Antoni Malinowski, Jürgen Karasek, Carlo Pisani editing Filip Antoni Malinowski, Julia Pontiller cinematography Filip Antoni Malinowski sound & sound design Florian Kindlinger music THALIJA www.thalija.com
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goEAST WIESBADEN - April // FILMPOLSKA BERLIN - April // PLANETE DOC WARSAW - May // GUTH GAFA IRELAND - May
comments
Artur Liebhart, festival director, Warsaw
"In Poland, unlike in no other post-socialist country, helpless people have been turned in to the brutal way of the housing market. Although in 1989 the first Polish prime minister Tadeusz Mazowiecki has expressed the need of continuation of the Socialist obligations after, soon afterwards the situation turned into the "Wild East". The governments in the Czech Republic, Hungary and Germany, however, took the tenant protection seriously, because they knew, that the people must have a minimum of social and psychological security in the form of a flat."
Austrian Film Festival Diagonale Graz
"A loving plea to be happy with the small things and to enjoy life despite any drawbacks."
"Just now I saw your movie and in my opinion it is absolutely unique. It is probably one of the best Polish documentary films I've seen in recent years. This film is impressively shot and constructed." link to film review (Polish)
I just wanted to let you know I loved the film. I found it very moving, and rich in the way it moves through so many layers, themes (gentrification, home, post WWll, ageing, family, storytelling, gardening, pleasure, struggle, political and personal change...). It feels like a privilege to be let into these people's lives from such an intimate perspective. Aesthetically I liked its spaciousness, rhythm, sound, the use of still images, the quietness of the filmmaker's "voice"...
Thank you! All the best, Vida (Canada)
FESTIVALS (32) international premiere: Krakow International Film Festival Unabhängiges Filmfest Osnabrück (competition), This Human World Human Rights Film Festival Vienna (competition), Planete DOC Review Warsaw & Wrocław, goEast Wiesbaden FF (competition), OFF Plus Camera Kraków, Polish Film Festival of America Chicago, OFF Cinema Festival Poznań (competition, awarded), FilmPolska München, Seattle Polish Film Festival, Człowiek w Zagrożeniu Łódź (competition, awarded), Cinema Perpetuum Mobile FF Minsk, Kamera Akcja Łódź, TNR Tarnowska Nagroda Filmowa (competition), Transatlantyk Poznań (competition), FilmPolska Berlin, Diagonale Graz (competition), Guth Gafa Ireland, Human Doc Warsaw (competition), Filmfest Rejected Innsbruck (competition), DIY Filmfest (winner, best film), Lubskie Lato Filmowe Łagów (competition), Forum of European Cinema Cinergia Łódź (competition), Filmowa Góra Zielona Góra, Vancouver Polish Film Festival, EKRAN Toronto Polish FF (competition, winner best doc film), Solanin Film Festival, Polnische Filmwoche Erlangen, PLAY Poland Film Festival UK, Polish FF Los Angeles, Delai International Documentary Film Festival Moscow, Flahertiana International Documentary Film Festival Perm, Russia, Verzio Budapest International Film Festival
FILIP ANTONI MALINOWSKIThrough a camera Filip dives into existential aspects of reality. As the grandson of archaeologists but educated as a photographer his documentary films inspect the core ideas of how we live together as a global society. Studied Film- and Media Science at the University of Vienna and photography & fine art at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. He lives and works with his independent film production company Soleil Film in Vienna and Berlin. www.filipmalinowski.net www.soleilfilm.at
