Wednesday, September 9 | 20:00 | Kino Muza, screening room #1
Meeting with director Eliza Kubarska and cinematographer Piotr Rosołowski following the screening of THE WALL OF SHADOWS
Language: Polish
A family of Nepalese Sherpas breaks a taboo by accompanying a team of eminent European climbers—Marcin Tomaszewski from Poland and Russians Dmitri Golovchenko and Sergei Nilov, two-time winners of the Golden Ice Axe, the mountaineering equivalent of the Academy Award—to the Himalayan peak of Kumbhakarna, the holy mountain of the Sherpas. They do it to earn money for their son’s education. Unfortunately, the unceasing snowfall plaguing the expedition is merely the first of the mounting difficulties. Will the gods forgive the climbers’ audacity?
Guests:
Eliza Kubarska – director, alpinist, traveler. Graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw and the Andrzej Wajda Movie Direction Master School. Starting in 2004, she directed a number of award-winning documentaries, frequently shot in extreme locations: “What Happened on Pam Island”, “Walking Under Water” (Hot Docs Special Jury Prize winner, Special Mention at the Los Angeles Film Festival, John Schlesinger Award winner at the Palm Springs International Film Festival), and “K2. Touching the Sky” (HBO, 2015), one of the most award-winning Polish mountaineering films of all time. Kubarska became the general manager of Vertical Vision Film Studio in 2008.
Piotr Rosołowski – graduate of the Department of Radio and Television at the University of Silesia, attended the Academy of Media Arts Cologne on a scholarship. Co-author of the Academy Award-nominated “Rabbit à la Berlin”, he also co-directed “Domino Effect” with Elwira Niewiera. Director of Photography of many award-winning documentaries and feature films, including the Academy Award-nominated Reto Caffi short “On the Line”.
Moderator:
Dorota Reksińska – culture and film scholar, graduate of the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. Affiliated with Poznań cultural institutions Estrada Poznańska and Kino Muza since June 2017. Her work mainly involves event production and monthly cinema scheduling as well as PR activity coordination and film education. Film editing is one of her hobbies.
