Baby bump
Baby bump · dir. Kuba Czekaj
Poland 2015, 90’
18 October, 14:00 · Od Nowa – large hall
Do you sometimes feel the need to go through a family album? You see a smiling face from your childhood, in broad daylight, a perfect picture of happiness and idyll... Now, do you also remember when you first thought of killing your parents? Or a full scale war with your friends at school, all that astonishment and fear, following a transformation of your body that started to live its own life? These are some of the things you will never find in a family album. The frantic story about Mickey House will effectively make you remember what it really meant to be a child. Each of us have gone through that and we all have a thing or two on our conscience.
| Director: | Kuba Czekaj |
| Screenplay: | Kuba Czekaj |
| Cinematography: | Adam Palenta |
| Editing: | Magdalena Chowańska |
| Cast: | Kacper Olszewski, Agnieszka Podsiadlik, Caryl Swift |
| Production: | Magdalena Kamińska, Agata Szymańska |
| Producer: | Balapolis |
| Distribution: | Balapolis |
| Awards: | MFF w Wenecji / Venice IFF – Lew Queer / Queer Lion (2015); FF w Gdyni / Gdynia FF – Konkurs Inne Spojrzenie: Złoty Pazur / The Visions Apart Competition: Golden Claw (2015) |
Kuba Czekaj was born in 1984, in Wroclaw. He has graduated from directing and got his certificated for the completion of studies at the Krzysztof Kieslowski Radio and Television Faculty of the University of Silesia in Katowice (2010) and completed the Dok Pro Documentary Programme at the Andrzej Wajda Master School of Film Directing in Warsaw (2011). He is the author of short feature films, which have won him numerous awards, including: Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark Room, House of Roses, Beyond the Horizon, Piece of Heaven and Twist & Blood.
Filmography:
- 2016 — Królewicz Olch
- 2016 — Baby bump
- 2014 — Rwetes
- 2010 — Twist & Blood
- 2009 — Ciemnego pokoju nie trzeba się bać
- 2007 — Za horyzont
- 2006 — Kawałek nieba
2016 Programme
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- Phenomena: Thelma & Louise
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- Focus: Bent Hamer
- Focus: Erik Poppe
- Forward: Tómas Lemarquis
- Forward: Sonja Richter
- Forum 2015/2016
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