37th edition
18-26 january 2025

Quiet Now

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Katarzyna Wiśniowska

Image Quiet Now
Poland
2020 Fiction 21 min
Basia works as a guide in the salt mine and she treats her job very seriously. One day she takes the trip with deaf kids and their tutors. It forces her to adjust the tour script she always follows. Basia doesn't have any control anymore and it doesn't make her feel confident. Especially when one little girl keeps causing chaos. Though chaos can be very illuminating...
With : Agnieszka Skrzypczak, Wanessa Maksimiuk, Tomasz Olender, Dorota Gorjainow, Franciszek Latuszek, Wiktoria Łapa, Marta Nowacka, Wiktor Reterski, Igor Reterski, Klaudia Owczarek, Anita Zaniewska, Kamila Krajewska, Oliwia Nazimek, Szczepan Maliszczak, Stanisł
Screenplay : Katarzyna Wiśniowska
Image : Joanna Kakitek
Sound : Natalia Lubowiecka
Editing : Sabina Filipowicz
Music : Kamil Tuszyński
Production : Lodz Film School
Born in 1990, Katarzyna Wiśniowska is a graduate of Contemporary Film and Video course at Manchester School of Art. In 2014 she got accepted in the Film and Television Directing MA course at National Film School in Łódź, Poland. She has made two short documentaries Transitions and Pretty Boy as well as a few short dramas: Third, JU et For You which was presented at international festivals such as Kaohsiung Film Festival, Caminhos Film Festival or Watersprite Student Film Festival. In November 2017 she received the scholarship in the film school in Brussels, INSAS, participating in the documentary program Regards Croises. Her feature documentary debut I Want It All was awarded at international pitching session at Krakow Film Festival in 2019. Quiet Now is her graduation film.