Zhalanash
Poland2017documentary42'Konkurs polski (2017)
Eponymous Zhalanash is a port city over the Aral Sea. This place between a great water and a vast desert which used to be a prosperous link of the Soviet economy is just a shadow of its former glory today. In Marcin Sauter’s film, Zhalanash is not only about evocative landscape, but, above all, about the fates of people who invested their hopes and expectations into the place between the sea and the desert and now ponder over their solitude among the wrecks of ships and port cranes.
Awards
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2017 National competition
The Award of the Polish Filmmakers Association for the best film editingSpecial Award
- directed by
- Marcin Sauter
Photographer, cinematographer and film director. He was born in 1971 in Bydgoszcz. He is a member of the Association of Polish Art Photographers who has had several dozen individual photographic exhibitions. He teaches at the Wajda School. He is the founder of Bydgoska Kronika Filmowa, an educational and artistic initiative. His involvement with cinema started in 1997 with the collaboration with Maciej Cuske on the feature film "What Do You Think about It, Gałuszko?", which was followed by such documentaries as "Travelling Cinema" (2005), "North from Calabria" (2009) and "Hakawati" (2011). His recent picture, "Zhalanash – Empty Shore" (2017), has won a number of international film awards, including the Best Short Documentary Award at IDFA or the Grand Prix of Camerimage.
- cinematography
- Marcin Sauter
- script
- Marcin Sauter
- music
- Jerzy Rogiewicz
- sound
- Marcin Lenarczyk
- editing
- Ziemowit Jaworski, Michał Marczak, Katarzyna Orzechowska
- production
- Barbara Ławska (Studio Filmowe KRONIKA Polska Kronika Filmowa)
- Photo
- Trailer