Director / Magdalena Szymków
Status / in production
Genre / documentary
Runtime / 52'
Otter Films as / producer
This documentary embarks upon a fascinating journey in his footsteps. It uncovers the countries where he worked, places he explored, people he met. It is told through unpublished archival materials and voices of journalists, politics, writers and filmmakers (such as Lech Walesa, Salman Rushdie, Werner Herzog or Andrzej Wajda).
Director / Jolanta Dylewska
Status / in production
Genre / documentary essay
Runtime / 80'
Otter Films as / producer
The film is kind of an answer for a call made by Marek Edelman, the former commander of the Warsaw Jewish Ghetto Uprising who witnessed the extermination in the Warsaw Ghetto throughout its existence. In 2009 he published a book based on his own experience 'And there was love in the ghetto...'
Director / Sergey Dvortsevoy
Status / in production
Genre / drama
Runtime / 100'
Otter Films as / coproducer
A young Kyrgyz girl - Ayka - lives and works illegally in Moscow. After giving birth to her son she leaves him in hospital. Some time later, however, her motherly yearning leads her to desperate attempts of finding the abandoned child. The director states: It began with a dry statistic. In 2010, 248 babies were given up by Kyrgyz mothers in Moscow's hospitals. What could be the reason behind Kyrgyz mothers voluntarily giving up their babies, abandoning them in a foreign country? What could be forcing them to commit...
Director / Bartosz Dombrowski
Status / in production
Genre / documentary
Runtime / 90'
Otter Films as / producer
A Film inspired by the theory ‘Six degrees of separation’ by Stanley Milgram. The theory is based on an assumption that every single person in the world can be reached through a maximum of 6 personal connections.
Six degrees is a road movie: a crew sets off on a journey to find the chain of connections between two people (chosen at random) who are complete strangers. Who will be the first and the last person on this chain? The crew travels around for around 3 months to examine how strong the relationships between human...
Director / Bartek Konopka & Piotr Rosołowski
Status / in production
Genre / documentary
Runtime / 70'
Otter Films as / executive production
An unknown story of a Haitian vodou priest, Amon, who visited the People's Republic of Poland in 1980 with a group of Haitians invited by the theatre of Jerzy Grotowski. Here, his Polish roots were reborn. His ancestors, Polish legionaries, took part in liberating Haiti from slavery 200 years before. Amon feels that he should pay his debt and do something for his second fatherland so he decides to stay in Poland. All is leading to martial law and Amon tries to change the course of history. He sees...
Director / Bartek Konopka
Status / in developement
Genre / fiction
Runtime / 80'
Otter Films as / producer
The story shows an attempt of christanisation of a pagan community in an unspecified place and time in the past. Through a story of two missionary monks we want to tell about religiosity and spirituality, about modern civilisation and the consciousness that makes us able to put it aside. We move back to the times of pagans, great woods and forced christianisation because this is the perfect environment to show the importance of fundamental emotions and values.
