Still from Balbina Bruszewska's "The Good, the Beauty and the Truth", source. SeMaFor
An enchanted lake that spells the death of a grief stricken husband, a magic suitcase bringing back memories of the ideal city and an isolated farmhouse outside a Swedish small-town that becomes the scene of an accident, three Polish shorts compete at the Lucania Film Festival in Italy
When a traveler arrives with a magical suitcase in a city on the verge of moral decay, his visions and talk of an ideal city with friendly and kind people are treated with contempt. Keeping memories of his ideal city safe in his luggage, the man wishes to spread The Good, the Beauty and the Truth in a short animation dedicated to the art of opening up, listening and illustrating the contemporary preoccupation with cheap sensation. Director, screenwriter and photographer Balbina Bruszewska’s 2011 6 minute long short animation combines cut-out animations with images of global demise, war, prostitution and mass entertainment. At Lucania Film Festival, it competes in the Animation Section.
Attempting to uncover his wife's secret after her death, The Lake's protagonist becomes obsessed with the water basin that was once a large part of his partner's life. Driven by a desire to regain lost time and rediscover lost emotions, Tadeusz' actions shed light on intricate interpersonal relationships. The Lake, a 30 minute film directed by Jacek Piotr Bławut screens at the festival's Fiction Section.
The third film, a 35 minute Polish production from Swedish director Magnus Von Horn, also taking part in the festival's Fiction Section - Without Snow puts consequences of emotions of love and fear into images. 16 year old Linus, a member of a motocross gang of teenagers falls in love with his best friends girlfriend. Taking place in a remote area of Sweden, a 50 year old man fires his gun at the teenagers and shoots one of the boys. Having felt that the emptiness that he had felt was about to change, Linus finds himself severely injured but alive.
The Lucania Film Festival reaches its 13th edition this year with about fifty short movies and animations being screened in Pisticci between August 10th and 13th as well as on the 19th.
Thumbnail: Still from Magnus Von Horn's Without Snow, photo: PolishShorts.pl
Sources: culture.pl, Lucania Film Festival, SeMaFor
Author: Marta Jazowska