"End of the World", a short documentary film directed by Monika Pawluczuk and co-produced by TVP2 has received the Grand Prix of the 9th Polish National Film Meetings "Cameral Summer" in Radom.
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After watching 21 films submitted for the competition, the jury including, Cezary Harasimowicz (chairman), Rafael Lewandowski, Antoni Królikowski, Anna Mucha and Dorota Nowocień decided to grand the Grand Prix - the Golden Archer Award and 5,000 PLN to Monika Pawluczuk, the director of "End of the World". In addition she has also received the Student Jury Award.
"Cameral Summer" is a festival at which nominations for Jan Machulski Polish Independent Cinema Award are granted. Monika Paluczuk has received the nomination for the Best Director and Agnieszka Glińska together with Marcin Laranik have received the Best Editing nomination.
"End of the World" is an intimate, authorial film that tells a story of several people, whose lives intertwine during one night. The heroes of the film are the residents of a big city. Loneliness, the need for some, even superficial, closeness and conversation with another person is what they have in common. To forget about their needs and unfulfilled desires they do many things. Some of them, usually unreasonably, call Accidents and Emergency, the others choose call-in radio programs to talk about their tragic, painful and sometimes even small and funny problems.
Radio joins all the nighttimes stories. The viewer can hear it in an ambulance, as the background in the CCTV centre, where we can watch the city's nightlife on dozens of screens. Radio is a frame that bonds the film and is also a source of the most important questions.