RED
POLISH TITLE: RUDY
Cigarettes, keys, a cell phone, a wallet – an unfinished life lying in a plastic police bag on the kitchen table. A father and daughter’s eyes meet as they take in the evidence of absence, silently measuring the distance between life and death. From the depths of the bag comes the sound of a phone ringing. That sound will become the echo of human grief.
The movie RED is about the scraps of life of Judyta and her father Zbigniew, shown across several days following the death of Judyta’s brother, Marcin, killed in a car accident. As they try to come to terms with the void left by a loss of a loved one, all their mutual resentment and finger pointing is unexpectedly interrupted by a stranger: Red.
Will he accept all the blame? And will it be enough? Will Judyta and Red be drawn closer together? Can anything new grow upon the sense of guilt? And what hides behind Zbigniew’s loneliness and heavy drinking? And who – really – deserves the noose the most?
- GENRE:
- fiction
- COUNTRYI:
- Poland
- RUNNING TIME:
- 30'
- YEAR:
- 2019
- COLOUR:
- kolorowy
- DIRECTING:
- Karina Węgiełek
- SCRIPT:
- Karina Węgiełek
- DOP:
- Jacek Petrycki
- EDITOR:
- Oskar Handzlik
- MUSIC:
- Szymon Zygoń
- PRODUCER:
- Warszawska Szkoła Filmowa
Karina Węgiełek »
- Brno Film Festival, 2021, Czech Republic, 2021 (Grand Prix: Best Student Film)
- Women Make Waves Int'l Film Festival 2020. Taiwan, 2021 (competition)
- Blackbird Film Festival 2021, USA, 2021 (competition)
- Arizona International Film Festival 2021, USA, 2021 (competition)
- New Delhi Film Festival 2021, India, 2021 (competition)
- KinoDUEL International Film Festival 2021, Russia, 2021 (competition)
- Kalaburagi International Short Film Festival 2020, Indie, 2021 (competition)
- Nexgn International Short Film Festival 2020, Indie, 2020 (competition)
- East Europe International Film Festial - Fusion 2020, Poland, 2020 (competition)
- Macau International Short Film Festival 2020, Macau, 2020 (competition)
- Bucovina International Film Festival 2020, Ukraine, 2020 (Best International Short Film)
- International Film Festival Prvi Kadar 2020, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2020 (Film Clapboard)
- Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival 2020, USA, 2020 (competition)
- Almaty IFF 2020, Kazakhstan, 2020 (competition)
- Montecatini International Short Film Festival 2020, Italy, 2020 (competition)
- Rabat International Author Film Festival 2020, Morocco, 2020 (Best Direction)
- Thessaloniki International Short Film Festival 2020, Greece, 2020 (Cinematic Achievement Award)
- 17 Kyiv International Film Festival KINOLITOPYS, Ukraine, 2020 (Diploma KIFFKinolitopys’ Review Committee)
- Lonely Seal International Film, Screenplay & Music Festival, USA, 2020 (competition)
- Filmzeitkaufbeuren Film Festival 2020, Germany, 2020 (competition)
- FICLAPAZ - La Paz International Film Festival 2020, Bolivia, 2020 (competition)
- Salento International Film Festival 2020, Italy, 2020 (competition)
- Islantilla Cineforum 2020, Spain, 2020 (competition)
- 3rd Fest Cine Pedra Azul 2020, Brazil, 2020 (competition)
- Flickers’ Rhode Island International Film Festival 2020, USA, 2020 (competition)
- Beeston Film Festival 2020, UK, 2020 (competition)
- Manchester Film Festival 2020, UK, 2020 (competition)
- Crystal Palace International Film Festival 2020, UK, 2020 (Best Student Film)
- Aesthetica Film Festival 2019, UK, 2019 (competition)
- 17th Tirana International Film Festival, Albania, 2019 (competition)