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Fading Snow

LOGLINE
Sometimes you need to melt down to get stronger.

SYNOPSIS
When a heart breaks the gap spreads along the weakest parts of the enclosing world. ‘Fading Snow’ presents one night from the life of 35-year-old Mania who leaves her safe place - the theatre - and sets off to find her way back home in a broken city of Warsaw, in a harsh reality of today’s Poland.

The curtain comes down. Both individual and universal truth has to be faced. There is only what you can see.

  • Ania Morawiec
    Director
    Planet Earth, It would be beautiful
  • Ania Morawiec
    Writer
    Planet Earth, It would be beautiful
  • Lodz Film School
    Producer
    Tremors, Loved ones
  • Dominika Biernat
    Key Cast
    "Mania"
    Dzikie róże, Ukąszenie / Bitten, Warany z Komodo
  • Jaśmina Polak
    Key Cast
    "Dziewczyna"
    Mowa ptaków, Sztuka kochania, Hardcore Disco, Miasto 44, Ślepnąc od świateł
  • Mateusz Więcławek
    Key Cast
    "Człowiek"
    Cicha noc, Monument, Kler, Czuwaj, Belfer, Czerwony Pająk
  • Marianna Zydek
    Key Cast
    "Tancerka"
    Kamerdyner, Soyer, Ułaskawienie, Piłsudski, Me Voy
  • Małgorzata Witkowska
    Key Cast
    "Policjantka"
    Adaptacja/ Adaptation, Pitt Bull, Belfer, Samo życie
  • Arkadiusz Detmer
    Key Cast
    "Ksiądz"
  • Irena Jun
    Key Cast
    "Kobieta"
  • Tomasz Wierzbicki
    DOP
    Bliscy, Ukąszenie, Jaskinia Żółwi, Planeta Ziemia
  • Teoniki Rożynek
    Music
    Prime Time, Tower. A bright day, Sole, Słabi, Wakacje
  • Project Title (Original Language):
    Ostatnie Śniegi
  • Project Type:
    Short, Student
  • Runtime:
    28 minutes 28 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    September 5, 2020
  • Country of Origin:
    Poland
  • Country of Filming:
    Poland
  • Language:
    Polish
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    1:1.85
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    Yes - The Polish National Film School in Lodz
  • Tampere International Film Festival
    Tampere
    Finland
    March 10, 2021
    international, finnish
  • Ciudad de Panama International Film Festival
    Ciudad de Panama
    Panama
    August 12, 2021
    South America
    Best International Student Short Film Award
  • "Młodzi i Film" - Koszaliński Festiwal Debiutów Filmowych
    Koszalin
    Poland
    September 16, 2020
    Polish
  • Lubuskie Lato Filmowe
    Łagów
    Poland
    September 2, 2021
  • SHORTS MÉXICO-International Short Film Festival of Mexico
    Mexico
    Mexico
    September 21, 2021
    Mexican
  • Kreivės / Vilnius Queer Festival
    Vilnus
    Latvia
    September 5, 2021
    Latvian
  • Oslo/Fusion Film Festival
    Oslo
    Norway
    October 2, 2021
    Norwegian
  • Zsigmond Vilmos International Film Festival
    Szeged
    Hungary
    September 20, 2021
    Hungarian
  • Riga International Film Festival
    Riga
    Lithuania
    October 14, 2021
    Lithuanian
  • Cork International Film Festival
    Cork
    Ireland
    November 8, 2021
    Irish premiere
    official selection / european competition
  • Leuven International Short Film Festival
    Leuven
    Belgium
    December 9, 2021
    Belgian premiere
    jury's special mention award
Distribution Information
  • Studio Indeks / Lodz Film School
    Distributor
    Country: Poland
    Rights: All Rights
Director Biography - Ania Morawiec

ANIA MORAWIEC
BIOGRAPHY & FILMOGRAPHY
Ania Morawiec, born in 1986, is a screenwriter and film director, graduated from The Polish National Film School in Lodz (2020, graduation with honors) and from The Jagiellonian University in Krakow (Political Science Departement); scholarship holder of the Freie Universitaet in Berlin; her master thesis was about connections between Carl Gustav Jung’s idea of collective unconscious and works of Andrzej Żuławski; Fading Snow is her diploma short fiction

She’s an author of many short fictions and documentaries (It would be beautiful and Planet Earth among others); co-writer of the full-lenght documentary JENNY (film in production).

From 2009-2014 she worked in a famous community radio station “radiofonia” based in Kraków, Poland, where she had been leading her own cultural radio show; she’s also a film educator working for the Filmforum Assosiation and the Andrzej Wajda’s Film Center in Warsaw.

In 2018 she received a scholarship from the CineNomadSchool Programme (cooperation of film schools from Benin, Nigeria, Poland, France and Burkina-Faso) in frames of which she wrote and directed a short fiction BATURE in Nigeria.

SELECTED WORKS AT FILM FESTIVALS

PLANETA ZIEMIA / PLANET EARTH
short fiction, 15 min, 2016
Heat, dust and dirt. Do you remember the moment of you own, private hell?

FESTIVALS & AWARDS:

FIFF Filmstrip International Film Festival, Iasi, Romania - II 2019
SUNDAY SHORT FILS FESTIVAL, London, UK - I 2019
NO TO SHORT FILM FESTIVAL, Suwałki, Poland - IX 2019 - GRAND PRIX AWARD
FILM FESTIVAL MaxOphuls PREIS, Saarbruecken, Germany - I 2018
ZUBROOFKA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL, Białystok, Poland - XII 2017
NEW HORIZONS FILM FESTIVAL, Wrocław, Poland - VIII 2017
TRANSATLANTYK INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL, Łódź, Poland - VII 2017
OKFA KONIN, Poland, VI 2017
LODZ FILM SCHOOL FILM FESTIVAL, Warszawa, Poland - IV 2017 /BEST EDITING AWARD FOR PIOTR WÓJCIK/

TO BYŁOBY COŚ PIĘKNEGO / IT WOULD BE BEAUTIFUL
short documentary, 18 min, 2014

Four people are supposed to take part in a one-way trip to Mars that is planned for 2023. Organizers of the project called Mars One received over 200 000 applications from all around the world. Among them is Aleksandra, a 57-year old biology teacher from a small Polish city of Sosnowiec.

FESTIVALS & AWARDS:

Jan Machulski’ Polish Independent Film Award /nomination for best directing/ - Warsaw, Poland - X 2016 
Jan Machulski’s Polish Independent Film Award /nomination for best short documentary/ - Warsaw, Poland - X 2016 
KAMERALNE LATO Film Festival, Radom, Poland - V 2015 /JURY’S SPECIAL AWARD/
SHORT WAVES FESTIVAL, worldwide - III 2015 /GRAND PRIX AWARD/
DRZWI Film Festival, Gliwice, Poland - VIII 2015 /STUDENTS’ FILM AWARD/
TWO RIVERSIDES International Film Festival, Kazimierz Dolny - VII 2015
ETIUDA & ANIMA International Film Festival, Kraków, Poland - XI 2014 /AUDIENCE AWARD/
EUROSHORTS Film Festival, Gdańsk, Poland - XI 2014 /BEST DOCUMENTARY AWARD/
SZCZECIN EUROPEAN FILM FESTIVAL, Szczecin, Poland - VI 2014

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Director Statement

DIRECTOR’s STATEMENT

Every human being knows a feeling of a heartbreak. In such moments an individual tragic event resonates with noticing other wounds in a surrounding reality. Fading Snow, with its structure of a nightmare, looks for hope that lies in a confrontation with one’s own pain and jungian shadow. The cure lies in facing darkness and open ourselves to a not-knowing state of mind, to a mystery and in accepting a profound loss. Strenghtening happens through melting down.

I wanted to tell a story about a hearbreak within a homosexual relationship that happens in a contemporary broken-into-pieces and mainly homofobic Poland. However, I wish nothing would change in the story if there was no LGBT issue included. And that’s my deepest understanding of what equality is.