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Dancing for You

Dancing for You

Dancing for You

2018

Menzione speciale

A classic film, mature and accomplished, perfect in the craft and mature in managing the protagonists.

Synopsis

Twelve-year-old Wiktor is a pupil at a renowned ballet school. He’s preparing for an event of enormous importance in school life; the ‘promo show’, which decides whether or not he’ll be ‘promoted’ and move up to the next grade. All the teachers and all the pupil’s parents take part in the occasion. His grandmother is his companion as he practices for the performance, but his dream is that his father, who lives abroad, will come to the show.

Biography and filmography

Katarzyna Lesisz – born in 1985, in Warsaw. Graduated from Applied Social Sciences at the University of Warsaw in 2012. She is currently a 5th year student of film directing at the National Film School in Lodz, working on her diploma movie Sashka, based on a short novel written by Etgar Keret. Her latest fiction movie Our Little Game won Best Picture Award at 13th Student Film Festival Lodzia Po Wisle, 2015. It was also screened at last Short Film Corner at Cannes Film Festival, Polish Film Festival in Seattle (USA), Gdynia Film Festival (the biggest polish film festival in Poland). Local audiences have also had a chance to watch it at such film events as Off Cinema, Koszalin Mlodzi i Film.