Light Years
Poland2021documentary27'Konkurs polski (2021)
‘True male friendship’ – this is what they say about Vitali and Łukasz. They have graduated from an Orthodox seminar and keep living together filling their life with music, books and philosophical disputes. But when you want to be ordained as an Orthodox priest, you have to get married first. The family living in Belarus cannot wait until Vitali finds a wife and becomes a priest. His friend, who has had a girlfriend for many years, is not into marriage either. Will the bond between the protagonists turn out stronger than their religious obligations?
Awards
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2021 National competition
Special MentionSpecial Mention
- directed by
- Monika Proba
Author of documentary films and features, podcasts, video installations and music videos She was born in Montreal in 1987. She is a graduate of Cultural Studies from the University of Warsaw and Sorbonne. She also studied at the Indonesian Art Institute of Yogyakarta as a fellow of the Darmasiswa programme. In Java, in collaboration with her sister, she shot her first documentary, "Dreams of Java", presenting local shamanism. She has completed the DOK PRO programme at the Wajda School. In her work, she focuses above all on rituals in culture.
- cinematography
- Zvika Gregory Portnoy
- script
- Monika Proba
- protagonists
- Witali Michalczuk
- sound
- Lucyna Wielopolska, Monika Proba, Mikołaj Lendzioszek, Anna Rok
- editing
- Adriana Fernández Castellanos, Monika Proba
- production
- Ewa Jastrzębska, Jerzy Kapuściński (Munk Studio - Polish Filmmakers Association)
- Photo
