POLISH DOCUMENTARY SHORTS PROGRAMME

MONDAY 3 NOVEMBER AT MIDDAY UGC HAYMARKET SCREEN 3

EMBALMER 25 mins Format Beta SP Director/Screenplay Ewa Swiecinska DoP Jacek Szatanski Print Source TVP SA E festivals@tvp.pl

COMPETITION 26 mins Format Beta SP Director/Screenplay Maciej Adamek Producer TVP SA Channel 2 DoP Artur Zurawski Print Source TVP SA E festivals@tvp.pl

KILL HIM! 35 mins Format Beta SP Directors/Screenplay Athena Savidis, Grzegorz Siedlecki Producer Andrzej Fidyk DoP Mikolaj Nesterowicz Print Source TVP SA E festivals@tvp.pl

WHAT YOU GONNA DO NEXT KAROLINKA? 43 mins Format Beta SP Director/Screenplay/DoP Karolina Bendera Producer Andrzej Fidyk Print Source TVP SA E festivals@tvp.pl

In The Embalmer Ireneusz Migda has worked for 12 years in a morgue preparing dead men for their funeral. He has got used to the presence of the dead. Others cannot stand even thinking about death, but he's more afraid of the living.

In Competition girls aged 6 to 11 years take part in a beauty contest - Mini Miss Poland. The film shows their dreams, which usually concern quick and easy success. And success means for them fame and money.

In Kill Him! three murderers meet in a prison cell. For many a night and day psychological drama takes place within the prison walls. Three inmates together - the policeman who killed a thirteen-year-old football fan, the man who killed a policeman and a minor who killed for a bottle of wine.

In What You Gonna Do Next Karolinka? Karolinka, an 18-year-old mother, is looking for her place in the world and hopes for a better life. A life without vodka, theft and violence. Karolinka and her baby live in the slums and she tries with all her might not to succumb to bad influences. MB