Kinorama

Next to me

Marta Prus, short fiction, 14 min, 2014

Synopsis

A twelve year old girl who’s leaving a corner food shop is bothered by two girls, older than her. They start to follow her around the apartment blocks. At the end the father of the younger girl appears. Wanting to teach them a lesson he crosses the borders though. The film becomes the parable of the complex human nature – it touches upon the source of evil, aggression, it defies the existence of patterns of the human behaviour. It poses a question who is the enemy, who is a friend? Do we know those who are most close to us?

Cast

Blanka

Kinga Małaniuk

Monika

Angelika Korab

Sandra

Kamila Łatkowska

Father

Tomasz Kot

Crew

Screenwriter

Marta Prus

Producers

Mariusz Grzegorzek, Marcin Malatyński, Ivana Šimić

DOP

Maciej Twardowski

Editor

Wojciech Janas

Sound design

Małgorzata Napiontek, Ewa Bogusz

Art director

Mateusz Bzówka

Costume designer

Agata Ludwiczak

Make-up artist

Klaudia Wypiór

Detailed information

Production

The Polish National Film, Television and Theatre School and Kinorama

Festivals

Sarajevo Film Festival 2015

Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina

TeenArena programme

Łodzią po Wiśle

Warsaw, Poland

Young Directors

Warsaw, Poland

Węgiel FF

Katowice, Poland

Pula Film Festival

Pula, Croatia

Short Pula programme

Naoussa International Film Festival

Naoussa, Greece

Program: SEEtalents Department

International Film Festival Opera Prima

Granada, Spain

21st Sarajevo Film Festival 2015

Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina