DOCU/SHORT

Zhalanash - An Empty Shore

Year
2017
Country
Poland
Duration
40’
Director
Marcin Sauter

The eponymous Zhalanash is a port city over the Aral Sea. This place, between a great water and a vast desert, which used to be a prosperous link of the Soviet economy, is just a shadow of its former glory today. In Marcin Sauter’s film, Zhalanash is not only about an evocative landscape, but above all about the fates of people who invested their hopes and expectations into the place between the sea and the desert, and now ponder their solitude among the wrecks of ships and port cranes. 

CREW:
Director: Marcin Sauter
Producer: Barbara Ławska
Cinematographer: Marcin Sauter
Editor: Michal Marczak, Ziemowit Jaworski, Katarzyna Orzechowska
Sound: Marcin Lenarczyk
Production
Studio Filmowe Kronika
Sales:
KFF Sales & Promotion, Katarzyna Wilk, +48122946945, [email protected]
Director
Marcin Sauter

Marcin Sauter is a photographer, cinematographer and film director. Born in 1971 in Bydgoszcz, Poland. A member of the Association of Polish Art Photographers, he has had several dozen individual exhibitions of his photography. He teaches at the Andrzej Wajda Master School of Film Directing, and has established the Bydgoszcz Newsreel foundation. His adventure with cinema started in 1997 when he cooperated with Maciej Cuske on the feature film What Do You Think About It, Gałuszko? Then he continued with documentaries such as The Travelling Cinema, North from Calabria and Hakawati.

 

Selected Filmography

The Travelling Cinema (2005), North from Calabria (2009), Hakawati (2011), Zhalanash – An Empty Shore (2017) 

Hall «KINOMAN»
Zhovten cinema
Kostiantynivska St, 26
Q&A with director
Original language with English and Ukrainian subtitles
Hall «ANSHLAG»
Zhovten cinema
Kostiantynivska St, 26
Q&A with director
Original language with English and Ukrainian subtitles
Hall «KINOMAN»
Zhovten cinema
Kostiantynivska St, 26
Original language with English and Ukrainian subtitles
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