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Hanoi - Warszawa

Hanoi - Warsaw

Katarzyna Klimkiewicz

Poland, 2009, 27 Min

A drama on escape, immigration and identity: Katarzyna Klimkiewicz's film on the indignities suffered by a young Vietnamese woman as she enters Europe illegally was voted Best Short by the European Film Academy in 2010.

Krakowska Fundacja Filmowa

Mai Anh crosses the "green border" and enters Poland. Her illegal border crossing into the Schengen Area comes at a cost however, as she is repeatedly abused and humiliated by her smugglers. Having searched in vain for her fiancé at the Vietnamese market in Warsaw, she ultimately finds him with the migration police, who are holding him in custody. Here Mai Anh is faced with a fateful decision: either admit to her true identity and be deported, or fight for survival. A moving parable on the necessity of self-deception. BB

Filmformat
BetaDi | Farbe / colour

Drehbuch
Katarzyna Klimkiewicz

Kamera
Andrzey Wojciechowski

Ton
Paulina Bocheńska

Schnitt
Andrzej Dąbrowski

Ausstattung
Jerzy Skrzepiński

Musik
Marzena Majcher

Darsteller
Thu Ha Mai, Le Thanh Hunh, Michał Podsiadło, Klaudia Barcik, Przemysław Modliszewski

Produzent
Joanna Rożen-Wojciechowska, Telewizja Kino Polska

Produktion
Krakowska Fundacja Filmowa

Kontakt
Krakowska Fundacja Filmowa
Basztowa 15/8a
31-143 Krakow
Poland
tel./fax +48122946945
e-mail: katarzyna@kff.com.pl
Katarzyna Wilk
mobile: +48502040084
Zofia Scislowska
e-mail.: zofia@kff.com.pl

Katarzyna Klimkiewicz - born in 1977. She graduated from the Directing Department of the Polish National School of Film, Television and Theater in Łódź. Her documentary WASSERSCHLACHT – THE GREAT BORDER BATTLE, produced with Andrew Friedman, received the Berlin Today Award at the 2007 Berlinale.

Movies
LABIRYNT KRYSTIANA LUPY (2003, short, doc)
WASSERSCHLACHT – THE GREAT BORDER BATTLE (2007, short, doc)
NIC DO STRACENIA (2009, short, doc)
FLYING BLIND (2012)

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