North from Calabria

Synopsis

The film is an attempt to create a place, a town, where living is easy. Where people know each other, tolerate their faults, meet each other to talk and just be together. Making of this film was a kind of a happening. Actors and outside people moved into a small Silesian town and along with its inhabitants they were organizing a big fest. In a confined space of market and a few small streets, working, talking and spending time together has dominated life of Chełmsko Śląskie. For one summer month Chełmsko has become a decoration in the film about an ideal town.

Director Biography

A photographer, director and cinematographer. Born in Bydgoszcz in 1971. He studied Photography at the Film School in Lodz. As a press photographer he has cooperated, among others, with Gazeta Wyborcza and Rzeczpospolita, popular Polish dailies. He is a graduate of the Andrzej Wajda Master School of Film Directing.