this is poland / das ist polen

Running time: 20'

A documentary portrait about the “emigrant of the year 2013,” Miroslaw Balonis, born in 1968, Polish businessman who has been living in Cologne for 20 years. A man of success, luck, or a charlatan? The film raises questions about identity and nationality in multicultural Europe.

 

 

Authors:

  • Mirek Balonis
    Jutta Riedel (Germany), Angelika Herta (Austria), Mirek Balonis (Poland), and Filip Jacobson (Poland) are JAMFcuts. “this is poland” is their first joint project.
     
    Filomgraphy:
     
    Ziehen  (2012)
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  • Angelika Herta

    Angelika Herta studied francophone literature in Austria and France and made her first film about Moroccan writers, shown in several places in Vienna and at the Festival Francophone 2008 in Bucharest. She lived for four years in Romania where she taught literature at the University of Bucharest. Since then she has been collaborating with Moldovan artists in the film project “Talking Letters”, about Romani, the language of the Roma. She currently lives in Poland, where she works at the Wyspa Institute of Art in Gdańsk. “Man of Iron” was chosen for a spot promoting the ALTERNATIVA Festival 2012, organized by the Wyspa Institute of Art in the shipyard of Gdańsk.

    Harvest Georgia (2011)
    Ceausescu ausgeschieden 2686/1990 (2011)
    I am professional Roma (2011)
    Rechts.Links (2010)
    Natural selection (2009)
    Lebenslauf (2009)
    Männer aus Stein und Metall (2008)
    L´appel de l´Orient (2005)

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  • Angelika Herta
    Jutta Riedel (Germany), Angelika Herta (Austria), Mirek Balonis (Poland), and Filip Jacobson (Poland) are JAMFcuts. “this is poland” is their first joint project.
     
    Filomgraphy:
     
    Ziehen  (2012)
    read more
  • Jutta Riedel
    Jutta Riedel (Germany), Angelika Herta (Austria), Mirek Balonis (Poland), and Filip Jacobson (Poland) are JAMFcuts. “this is poland” is their first joint project.
     
    Filomgraphy:
     
    Ziehen  (2012)
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  • Filip Jacobson

    Documentary film director. He is a graduate of the Gdynia Film School, Film Studies at the University of Łódź as well as the Academy of Media Arts Cologne. He has participated in the exchange programme with EICTV in Cuba, film workshops of the Berlinale Talent Campus EsoDoc, the Go Short Talent Campus and Poland Doc. He takes part in documentary and social projects, workshops for children and youth in Turkey, Romania and Poland. In his films, he is looking for different forms of expression ranging from cinéma vérité through personal documentaries to mocumentaries.
     

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