Section: Polskie Horyzonty

Lokatorki

Tenants

Klara Kochańska
Poland, 2015, 30 Min

The internship generation comes face-to-face with the precariat: when legal assistant Justyna attempts to move into an owner-occupied flat she won at auction, the previous tenant refuses to budge in this intimate cinematic portrait on the disappearance of social equilibrium on the age of a market-driven world.

Kraków Film Foundation

The previous tenant, together with her mentally-disabled daughter, lives on the breadline. Justyna is also not in a position to pay over the odds for a rented apartment however, and thus her new place to call home, located in a prefab apartment building, comes at the expense of another's social hardship. It's not long however until the new inhabitant's starts to suffer pangs of remorse, having come to at least subconsciously understood that whilst she might have the law on her side, her rough-and-tumble predecessor is fighting for justice.

This short film from director Klara Kochańska was the winner of one of three 2016 Student Academy Awards for Best Foreign Narrative. BB

Filmformat
DCP | Farbe / colour
Drehbuch
Klara Kochańska, Kasper Bajon
Kamera
Zuzanna Pyda
Ton
Rafał Nowak
Schnitt
Barbara Fronc
Ausstattung
Anna Marzęda
Darsteller
Julia Kijowska, Beata Fudalej, Diana Zamojska, Joanna Drozda, Sławomir Orzechowski, Paweł Królikowski, Miron Jagniewski, Daniel Guzdek
Produzent
Marcin Malatynski
Produktion
Polish National Film School in Łódź
Kontakt
Kraków Film Foundation
Katarzyna Wilk
Ul. Basztowa 15/8a
31-143 Kraków
Poland
Tel.: +48.12.294.69 45
katarzyna@kff.com.pl
www.kff.com.pl
Klara Kochańska

Klara Kochańska - born 1984 in Kraków, Poland. She studied anthropology of culture, philosophy and art history at Warsaw University before enrolling at the Polish National Film School, Łódź, in 2009, where she studied directing. Her short films have received awards at several film festivals. LOKATORKI is her graduation film.

Movies
KRÓLOWA ŚNIEGU (2010, short)
ZMARTWYCHWSTANIE (2011, short)
ŁÓDŹ OD ŚWITU DO ZMIERZCHU (2011, short, doc)
MELODIA MIŁOŚCI (2012, short)
10 APGAR (2013, short)
MELANCHOLIA (2016, short)