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A Piece of Summer (Kawalek Lata)

Year: 2010
Production Country: Poland
Original language: Polish
Subtitles: English
Runtime: 23:02
Genre: Creative Documentary
Director: Marta Minorowicz
Writer: Marta Minorowicz
Camera: Pawel Chorzepa
Editor: Przemyslaw Chruscielewski
Sound: Tomasz Kochan, Dominika Czakon
Post-Production: Rafal Wieczorek
Digi Beta / HD Cam
Aspect ratio: 16:9 (full anamorphic)
Sound: Dolby Stereo
Producers: Polish Filmmakers Asociation Studio Munk; Studio Filmowe Kronika
Funding: Polish Filmmakers Asociation Studio Munk; TVP; Polish Film Institute
Sales: Krakow Film Foundation
"In nature all things pass but with the finest work of cinema some things fortunately remain forever. The jury has chosen this quiet gem of filmmaking for successfully capturing intimate moments pregnant of nostalgia. Through a delicate balancing act of light and poverty, laughter and melancholia, old wisdom and fleeting youth, the film paints a subtle dream of love and family in a lost season of paradise."

DOK Leipzig: The International Jury for Documentary Films and Videos / Short Metrage (to 45 min), October 2010

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Awards and Screenings


A Piece of Summer
Grand Prix: 33th International Short Film Festival, Clermont-Ferrand, France, February 2011
Golden Dove for best short-length international documentary: 53rd DOK Leipzig, Germany, October 2010
Grand Prix White Cobra Prize: 20th Media Festival, Lodz, Poland. November 2010
Jury Prize for Documentary Short Film at the 29th Youth and Film Film Debut Festival in Koszalin, Poland,October 2010
Second Prize at Curt.doc Short Documentary Festival, Spain, June 2011
Canada International Film Festival 2011- Rising Star Award

Polish Film Festival in America, Chicago, USA, 2010 (screening)
10th DocPoint - Helsinki Documentary Film Festival, Finland, 2011 (screening)
Marathon Dok in Copenhagen, Denmark, 2011 (screening)
4th International Documentary Film Festival of Nicosia, Cyprus, 2011 (screening)
59th Trento Film Festival, Italy, 2011 (screening)
BELDOCS International Documentary Film Festival, Serbia, 2011 (screening)
London International Documentary Festival (LIDF), UK, 2011 (screening)
Doc_Europa III, Portugal, 2011 (screening)
33th Moscow International Film Festival, Russia, 2011 (screening) Festival "Les Yeux Ouverts sur l'Immigration", France, 2011 (screening)
Era New Horizons International Film Festival, Poland, 2010 (competition)
PLUS CAMERIMAGE 2010 - International Film Festival Of The Art Of Cinematography, Poland, 2010 (competition)
7th ZagrebDox, Croatia, 2011 (competition)
13th Mecal International Short Film Festival, Spain, 2011 (competition)

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