Grandmamauntsistercat
dir. Zuza Banasińska / 2024, Netherlands / Poland, 23'
8.09.24
18:00
Kinoteka, plac Defilad, Warszawa, Polska
Director: Zuza Banasińska
Screenplay: Zuza Banasińska
Editing: Zuza Banasińska
Sound: Zuza Banasińska, Constanza Castagnet
Music: Martyna Basta, Julek Tarasiuk
Producer(s): Zuza Banasińska
Production: Zuza Banasińska, WFO Film Studio in Lodz (Wytwórnia Filmów Oświatowych w Łodzi)
World sales: Video Power
Language: Polish
Website: https://www.videopower.eu/distribution/16/1/2024/grandmamauntsistercat-neeg9
SYNOPIS
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The classic Slavic witch figure, Baba Jaga, is reimagined as a “prehistoric goddess from the times of the matriarchy” using found footage from the Polish Educational Film Studio archive. This transformation incites layered reflections on kinship and identity, guided by a child grappling with binary gender roles. The often sexist and anthropocentric images, created as didactic materials in communist era, are repurposed into an emotive portrait of a multispecies matriarchal family seeking freedom and empowerment.
FESTIVALS AND AWARDS
Berlinale (Teddy Award for Best Short Film), Rotterdam International Film Festival, IndieLisboa, Go Short International Short Film Festival Nijmegen (Best Dutch Short Film), Visions du Réel, Seattle International Film Festival, mBank New Horizons International Film Festival, Millennium Docs Against Gravity, Sicilia Queer Film Festival (Best Short Film), Hamburg Short Film Festival (Special Mention), XPOSED Queer Film Festival Berlin
ZUZA BANASIŃSKA
Artist and filmmaker from Warsaw, currently based in Amsterdam. In their essay films and installations they animate spectral realities sedimented within archives, investigating processes of standardized knowledge production. They studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow, at the University of the Arts in Berlin, and at the Sandberg Instituut in Amsterdam. Their works have been shown in spaces such as the U-Jazdowski CCA in Warsaw, Dům Umění Mesta Brna in Brno and Het Nieuwe Instituut in Rotterdam, among others. Their work is currently supported by the Mondriaan Fund, Netherlands Film Fund and Stimuleringsfonds. Their newest film “Grandmamauntsistercat” is distributed by EYE Filmmuseum and Video Power and premiered at International Film Festival Rotterdam 2024 and the 74th Berlinale where it received the Teddy Award for Best Short Film.
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