16-09-2014

FNE at Gdynia 2014: Neighbours

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    Neighbours by Grzegorz Królikiewicz Neighbours by Grzegorz Królikiewicz

    WARSAW: Grzegorz Królikiewicz returns to the 39th Gdynia Film Festival with his competition film Neighbors, a warm, absurd comedy.

    Neighbours is a group portrayal of outsiders, people who live near us but are outside mainstream society. The script for the picture is based on Adrian Markowski’s stories Sąsiady and Uślubieni and has the form of a multi-plot story about the cohabitants of a tenement house.

    "It's a story about people that we usually don't notice in our everyday life (...) about people without perspectives, chances, who keep on living their miserable existence despite it all. They live in modern ghettos, forgotten by the authorities that are supposed to look after them," the director told FNE.

    The film is produced by KADR Film Studio in co-production with Telewizja Polska, Kino Świat, and Łódź Film Commission.
    Neighbors was shot on location in Łódź between October and December 2013 with a budget of 3.1 m PLN with 1.4 m PLN from the Polish Film Institute and  financial support from the Łodz Film Fund.

    Director Grzegorz Królikiewicz is a renowned Polish documentary and feature filmmaker. His new comedy includes a cast of popular Polish actors including Anna Mucha, Katarzyna Herman, Jacek Poniedziałek, Piotr Głowacki as well as Polish musician Marek Dyjak and Polish professional heavy-weight lifter Mariusz Pudzianowski. The DoP for this picture is Krzysztof Ptak.

    The film is distributed Kino Świat with a premiere date yet to be set.

    Crew:

    Directed by: Grzegorz Królikiewicz
    Written by: Grzegorz Królikiewicz based on Adrian Markowski’s stories
    “Sąsiady” and “Uślubieni”
    Director of photography: Krzysztof Ptak PSC
    Production design by: Zbigniew Warpechowski
    Costume design by: Beata Tumkiewicz
    Produced by: Studio Filmowe KADR
    Producer: Łukasz Barczyk
    Co-produced by: Telewizja Polska, Kino Świat, Łódź Film Commission
    Executive producer: Jolanta Tobota
    Production management: Zofia Wieczorek
    Co-financed by: Polski Instytut Sztuki Filmowej
    Distributed by: Kino Świat

    Cast:

    Anna Mucha
    Katarzyna Herman
    Jacek Poniedziałek
    Piotr Głowacki
    Marek Dyjak
    Mariusz Pudzianowski.
    and others

    Production contact:

    SF KADR
    ul. Puławska 61
    02- 595 Warsaw
    tel./fax [22] 845 49 23
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    http://www.sfkadr.com