DOC NYC Screenings:
- Thursday, Nov. 14th at 7:00 pm at the Village East, New York, NY. Followed by Q&A
- Friday, Nov. 15th at 12:45 pm at the IFC Center, New York, NY. Followed by Q&A
https://www.docnyc.net/film/forest/
About the Film:
After graduating from university, Asia and Marek bought an old house near Poland’s eastern border. There, in Białowieża Forest, the last original lowland forest of Europe, the couple created their paradise over the years – a place where their children can grow up safely, away from the problems of today’s world. The forest became their second home for Marysia, Ignacy, and Franek. Yet, one day, things change as strangers show up. Refugees are unwelcome both in Poland and Belarus. Despite controversial border laws, the whole family helps those in need. The new reality shows its impact on the children’s world; they no longer play knights and princesses but refugees and border guards. The growing humanitarian crisis on the EU border entered the family’s safe place, leaving nothing as it used to be.
About the Director:
Lidia Duda is a Polish documentary film director. Her film Fledglings (2022) received the Marco Zucchi Award in the Semaine de la Critique section at the 2022 Locarno Film Festival and for awards at the Millennium Docs Against Gravity Film Festival in Poland. She is a two-time winner of the Grand Prix at the Krakow Film Festival for Hercules (2005) and Entangled (2012). Duda also won Grand Prix awards at film festivals in New York, Chicago, Houston, Istanbul, Mexico, Moscow, Banff, Guangzhou, and Prague. For her documentary, In Our Village Pietrasze (2002), Duda was awarded the Grand Press. A member of the Polish Filmmakers Association, the Polish Film Academy, and the Documentary Directors Guild of Poland.
Select Credits:
- Directed by: Lidia Duda
- Produced by: Patryk Sielecki, Michal Ostatkiewicz, Aleksandra Ostatkiewicz
- Executive Producer: Patryk Sielecki
- Cinematography by Zuzanna Zachara-Hassairi
- Editor: Lidia Duda, Filip Stanislawski
- Language: Polish
- Country: Poland, Czech Republic
- Year: 2024
- Running time: 84 minutes
- A Lumisenta Film Foundation production
2024, 84 minutes, in Polish with English subtitles
http://www.lumisenta.com/en/forest
