A hybrid document about painful family histories. In Poland, out of ten debtors obliged to pay child support, only two pay them in full. As a gesture of solidarity with his mother, the director decides to stage a film scene in which she wins alimony.
International Short Film Competition
Debtors
ENGLISH TITLE:
Debtors
ORIGINAL TITLE:
Zadłużeni
DIRECTOR:
Andrzej Danis
PRODUCER:
Agata Golańska The Polish National Film School in Lodz
MAIN COUNTRY OF PRODUCTION:
POLAND
GENRE:
DOCUMENTARY
YEAR:
2024
DIALOGUES:
Polish
CAST:
Ewa Danis
A QUOTE FOR THE FILM:
Next time it will work out
SELECTIVE LIST OF FESTIVALS AND AWARDS:
Krakow Film Festival, Kraków, Poland, May 2024 (official selection) FEST New Directors New Films Festival, Espinho, Portugal, June 2024 (Honorable Mention Award Silver Lynx Competiton) Festival SFORA, Rajgórd, Poland, June 2024 (official selection) Film Festival „Przeźrocza” Bydgoszcz, Poland, August 2024 (official selection) Sapporo International Short Film Festival & Market, Sapporo, Japan, October 2024 (official selection) Spektrum Film Festival, Swidnica, Poland, October 2024 (official selection) Maklaka Festival, Konstancin-Jeziorna, Poland, October 2024 (Honorable Mention Award) „Etiuda&Anima” International Film Festival, Kraków, Poland, October 2024 (Silver Dragon Award & Audiance Award) Film Festival „Opolskie Lamy”, Opole, Poland, October 2024 (official selection) 26th Madurai International Documentary and Short Film Festival 2024, Madurai, India, December 2024 (official selection) 26th Festival MUSIC & CINEMA Marseille (MCM), France, March 2025 (official selection) T-Port Lighthouse Selections Market for Short & Student Films, March 2025 (official selection)
DIRECTOR’S BIO:
Andrzej Danis, born on 1993 in Warsaw, Poland. A graduate of Cultural Anthropology at the University of Warsaw and Film Directing at the Polish National Film School in Lodz. He’s interested in human sensation that the true life is an unlived life.
