On the 4th of April Breaking Ground and Holland Doc present a special around director Bartosz Warwas. 

Every month a new fascinating European student documentary on the digital television channel Holland Doc. A month before the screening date you can find here which film is going to surprise you this month. This edition we have a special around director Bartosz Warwas.

Bartosz Warwas (1978) was born in Cracow. Since 2006 he has been studying at

the directing department in Polish National Film School in Lodz. His films have been screened on numerous international festivals including Berlin, Bilbao, Cologne, New Delhi, Tehran, Bucharest, Badalona, Monterrey, San Francisco, Amsterdam, Montevideo and Rio de Janeiro.

Triathlon is not a classic documentary film. It is rather a documentary fairy tale: once upon a time in a country beyond many seas and islands, beyond high mountains, beyond large rivers, lived a Man who had a lot of problems. One day he decided to face it...




Koluszki Blues (Nowhere Blues) 
Far, far away, in a small town beyond distant mountains and an enormous forest, The Braid is trapped. Only Great Love can release him. While waiting patiently for It to come, The Braid is combing his long beard which houses all his powers...

Time to ask him some questions:

Where do you get your inspiration for your films?

What interests me most in documentary film is how certain people manage to
live their lives their own way no matter what the circumstances and public
response are. We use to call them eccentrics, or even freaks. But it doesnt
mean I am looking for characters, who can be ridiculed. I highly appreciate
and respect them. I admire their idealism and daydreaming, the goals they
set, the courage to go against the flow, and as a result of this, readiness
to face solitude and lack of understanding.

I always tend to make my documentaries with an optimistic undertone, so that
they give the people who watch it a lot of hope and courage to live their
lives the way they want.

What do you think is the most important to make a documentary?

What I value most is invention and courage in the context of how the filmed
reality undergoes the process of artistic creation. The world in a
documentary film does not have to be only a one-to-one correspondence to
reality. Processing it with the directors creative tools may often tell
more about the problems of contemporary world than the traditional
documentary observation or report.


What is your next project?

Currently I am preparing myself for a documentary about a married couple,
who devote their entire lives to animals. They live in a 40 square meters
flat with 15 cats and 2 dogs, and above that they feed countless number of
stray cats. Having been married for 30 years now, the couple is still in
love with each other, although the wife is 20 years older than her husband...

 

Next to the Go Short Campus, Breaking Ground and Go Short present Breaking Shorts. After screening for days in the dark winter period, we selected the best 20 films of Europe's student cinema. 

Check here our selection!
Only one film will be the winner of the Breaking Short Award.

The Breaking Shorts Jury will nominate films of the student competition Breaking Shorts on Friday 19 March. The winner of the Breaking Short Award will be announced on Saturday 20 March, during the Award Ceremony.


Bram Schouw (the Netherlands)
Bram Schouw is director at Hazazah Film Amsterdam and directed the award winning commercials Together We Can and Sensoor. His short filmImpasse (2008) won the NFTVM Vers! Award for young Dutch filmmakers and is still shown worldwide as part of the feature film Stories on Human Rights.

Chris Mouw (the Netherlands)
Chris Mouw studied Film and Television Studies at the University of Utrecht. During her time there she was introduced to il Luster Productions,  the largest producer for independent animation in the Netherlands. In 2
007, she started working as their festival coordinator. Currently, she is also producer, focusing on the production for animation shorts. 

Paul Negoescu (Romania)
Paul Negoescu directed several shorts that have been selected and awarded at many international film festivals (Berlinale, Rotterdam, London BFI, Slamdance). His film Renovation (2009) was nominated at the European Film Academy Awards in 2009. He is also the artistic director of the Timishort Film Festival. Two of his short films are featured in the Romanian focus program Wide Awake.

A mobile cinema powered by solar power... 
Breaking Ground, CosyMo's SOLAR CINEMA and Cinestud offers an alternative exhibition space by bringing film to you at Go Short Film Festival. CosyMo's Solar Cinema is an initiative of filmmaker Maureen Prins (CosyMo) and was developed after a UK example. Since 2006 she has been touring with het mobile cinema presenting exciting films and developing filmprojects.

Breaking Ground and Cinestud selected the best films which can be seen in Nijmegen on the 18th of March at 19h30.

Peripheria, Marcel Barelli, Swiss, animation, 8'48''
Stil Leven, Tim de Groot, The Netherlands, animation, 3'10''
Basta!, Michiel ten Horn, The Netherlands, fiction, 13'20''
How to save a fish from drowning, Kelly Neil, UK, documentary, 13'12''
Packing, Behrooz Karamikaze, Germany, documentary, around 4'00''
Volgens de vogels, Linde Faas, The Netherlands, animation, 2'00''