Screenings
Internetowa edycja 64. KFF
The Miracle
Poland2024fiction30'National Competition
A talented animator, Ewa Borysewicz, enters the territory of live-action cinema to create a film experiment interpreting the story of Mary and Joseph in a perverse way. The life of a young man, who is a hedonist and sinner, is turned upside down when his wife becomes pregnant. The protagonist tries to escape, but it does not bring him any comfort. To the contrary, it complicates his life even more. He is not able to separate reality from drunken hallucinations coloured with biblical stories and folk songs. Or, maybe they are not fantasies? The script was based on the novel by Ignacy Karpowicz. The biblical message and language is enlaced in the poetics of absurd humour. An intriguing aesthetic form makes it possible to overcome the limitations of live-action cinema and unleash the artist’s creativity.
- directed by
- Ewa BorysewiczQ&A guest
Director, screenwriter, visual artist and university pedagogue. Graduate of the Krzysztof Kieślowski Film School in Katowice and the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków. Currently a doctoral student at the Film School in Łódź. The author of award-winning animated films, of which 'To Thy Heart' was, among others, nominated for the Golden Bear at the Berlinale and won the Grand Prix at the Animateka Festival in Ljubljana. She has completed an artist residency programme in Tokyo and at Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart. She works and lives in Warsaw.
- cinematography
- Marcin Lesisz
- script
- Ewa Borysewicz
- animated by
- Paulina Konopacka, Zofia Klamka, Kaja Krzysiek, Zofia Snarska, Niuta Godlewska, Zuzanna Podpora
- cast
- Bartłomiej Kotschedoff, Joanna Połeć, Barbara Jonak, Paulina Kondrak, Małgorzata Hajewska-Krzysztofik, Dorota Kiełkowicz, Bogusław Suszka
- music
- Marzena Majcher
- sound
- Michał Fojcik
- editing
- Aleksandra Rosset - Żak
- production
- Piotr Szczepanowicz, Jakub Karwowski (Letko)
- Photo
