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A Boat

Polonia. 2006. Color. 16 min. Ficción. .
  • Film Director: Michal Szczesniak.
  • Scriptwriter: Michal Szczesniak.
  • Producer: Jakub Kosma.
  • Co-production: Francia
The story about young boy, whose originality exceeds tolerance of his surroundings. He decides to live on the boat in the middle of the lake. The escape of main character is absurd. This absurd mixed with irony amuses, because is real in XXI century – the century of individuality.

Michal Szczesniak
In 2000, Michal started to work as a journalist, writing for Playboy and the Polish weekly Wprost. A year later, he was a critic for the music column in a daily paper, Zycie. A lot changed in 2005 when he won a Nisi Masa European Script Contest Award for the short script 'A Boat'. More recently, he has written scripts, a novel and he's still studying Sociology. For the last two years he has run Lemon TV as an executive producer and director of programs, the most popular internet television channel in Poland.