THE ERLPRINCE
BERLIN FILM FESTIVAL 2017 – Generation 14plus – European Premiere
[International Press]
THE ERLPRINCE
a film by Kuba Czekaj
Poland – 2017 – 101 min. – color
Polish with English subtitles
The second feature film from Polish director Kuba Czekaj, after his award-winning first feature Baby Bump (Venice Film Festival 2015).
SYNOPSIS
THE ERLPRINCE is the story of an exceptionally gifted teenage boy who has just started studying physics at university. He is working on the theory of parallel worlds, which he initially believes to be linked by light. He has an extraordinary mind and a wounded soul, which his authoritarian Mother, who steers his life, is incapable of healing. Then a Man appears in their lives and, as the Boy passes from the hands of the Mother into his care, a new order is established. Their torturous road forms a bond between the three central characters, but their shared happiness is not to last long. Approaching a solution to the problem of the passage between the worlds, the Boy initiates a journey, setting his life on the scales…
SCREENINGS
Thursday 16 February at 17:00 @ Cinema HKW (Premiere)
Friday 17 February at 10:30 @ CinemaxX 1
Saturday 18 February at 14:00 @ CinemaxX 3
ATTENDING
Kuba Czekaj (director & screenwriter) > Feb. 11-18
Stanisław Cywka (actor) > Feb. 16-19
Agnieszka Podsiadlik (actress) > Feb. 10-19
Sebastian Łach (actor) > Feb. 10-19
Adam Palenta (DoP) > Feb. 16-19 TBC
Please send your interview requests to [email protected] &[email protected]
CREDITS
Director & writer: Kuba Czekaj
Starring: Staszek Cywka, Agnieszka Podsiadlik, Sebastian Łach, Bernhard Schütz, Bogusława Jantos, Emilia Stachurska, James Fordham, Anna Podolak
Cinematography: Adam Palenta
Music: Bartek Gliniak
Set design: Anna Wunderlich
Costumes: Aleksandra Staszko
Make up: Aleksandra Dutkiewicz
Sound: Radosław Ochnio
Editing: Daniel Gąsiorowski
Production managers: Magdalena Kamińska, Agata Szymańska
Artistic supervisior: Joanna Kos-Krauze
Production: Studio Munka-Stowarzyszenie, Filmowców Polskich
Co-production: Telewizja Polska, Odra Film, Studio Produkcyjne Orka
Co-financed by: Polish Film Institute
PRODUCTION
MUNK STUDIO – Polish Filmmakers Association - www.munkstudio.eu
WORLD SALES
ORATION FILMS - Timothy O'Brien - www.orationfilms.com
ABOUT THE DIRECTOR
Born in Wrocław in 1984. Graduated in directing from the Krzysztof Kieślowski Radio and Television Faculty at the University of Silesia in Katowice in 2010 and from the Development Lab Feature Programme at the Andrzej Wajda Master School of Film Directing in Warsaw in 2011. He received a scholarship from the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage on two occasions, in 2009 and 2011, and has been honoured with the title of Third Programme Talent, a distinction conferred by Polish Radio’s Trojka (Third Programme). He has won the Gazeta Wyborcza (Electoral Gazette) Worth cultural award and the Cultural Guarantee award from TVP Kultura, the Polish public television broadcasting corporation’s cultural channel. He also holds the Rector of the University of Silesia's award for active students and doctoral candidates.
Director of two short films DON’T BE AFRAID OF THE DARK ROOM and TWIST & BLOOD, both of which received numerous awards. His debut feature BABY BUMP premiered at the 72nd Venice Film Festival, winning the Queer Lion Award Special Mention, and won the Award for Artistic Achievement at Outfest in Los Angeles.
[International Press]
THE ERLPRINCE
a film by Kuba Czekaj
Poland – 2017 – 101 min. – color
Polish with English subtitles
The second feature film from Polish director Kuba Czekaj, after his award-winning first feature Baby Bump (Venice Film Festival 2015).
SYNOPSIS
THE ERLPRINCE is the story of an exceptionally gifted teenage boy who has just started studying physics at university. He is working on the theory of parallel worlds, which he initially believes to be linked by light. He has an extraordinary mind and a wounded soul, which his authoritarian Mother, who steers his life, is incapable of healing. Then a Man appears in their lives and, as the Boy passes from the hands of the Mother into his care, a new order is established. Their torturous road forms a bond between the three central characters, but their shared happiness is not to last long. Approaching a solution to the problem of the passage between the worlds, the Boy initiates a journey, setting his life on the scales…
SCREENINGS
Thursday 16 February at 17:00 @ Cinema HKW (Premiere)
Friday 17 February at 10:30 @ CinemaxX 1
Saturday 18 February at 14:00 @ CinemaxX 3
ATTENDING
Kuba Czekaj (director & screenwriter) > Feb. 11-18
Stanisław Cywka (actor) > Feb. 16-19
Agnieszka Podsiadlik (actress) > Feb. 10-19
Sebastian Łach (actor) > Feb. 10-19
Adam Palenta (DoP) > Feb. 16-19 TBC
Please send your interview requests to [email protected] &[email protected]
CREDITS
Director & writer: Kuba Czekaj
Starring: Staszek Cywka, Agnieszka Podsiadlik, Sebastian Łach, Bernhard Schütz, Bogusława Jantos, Emilia Stachurska, James Fordham, Anna Podolak
Cinematography: Adam Palenta
Music: Bartek Gliniak
Set design: Anna Wunderlich
Costumes: Aleksandra Staszko
Make up: Aleksandra Dutkiewicz
Sound: Radosław Ochnio
Editing: Daniel Gąsiorowski
Production managers: Magdalena Kamińska, Agata Szymańska
Artistic supervisior: Joanna Kos-Krauze
Production: Studio Munka-Stowarzyszenie, Filmowców Polskich
Co-production: Telewizja Polska, Odra Film, Studio Produkcyjne Orka
Co-financed by: Polish Film Institute
PRODUCTION
MUNK STUDIO – Polish Filmmakers Association - www.munkstudio.eu
WORLD SALES
ORATION FILMS - Timothy O'Brien - www.orationfilms.com
ABOUT THE DIRECTOR
Born in Wrocław in 1984. Graduated in directing from the Krzysztof Kieślowski Radio and Television Faculty at the University of Silesia in Katowice in 2010 and from the Development Lab Feature Programme at the Andrzej Wajda Master School of Film Directing in Warsaw in 2011. He received a scholarship from the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage on two occasions, in 2009 and 2011, and has been honoured with the title of Third Programme Talent, a distinction conferred by Polish Radio’s Trojka (Third Programme). He has won the Gazeta Wyborcza (Electoral Gazette) Worth cultural award and the Cultural Guarantee award from TVP Kultura, the Polish public television broadcasting corporation’s cultural channel. He also holds the Rector of the University of Silesia's award for active students and doctoral candidates.
Director of two short films DON’T BE AFRAID OF THE DARK ROOM and TWIST & BLOOD, both of which received numerous awards. His debut feature BABY BUMP premiered at the 72nd Venice Film Festival, winning the Queer Lion Award Special Mention, and won the Award for Artistic Achievement at Outfest in Los Angeles.