In Touch

The story of people from a little Polish village called Stare Juchy (in Polish: Old Blood). The village is located in Masuria, area often referred as ‘’The Land of Thousand Lakes’’. Around 400 people from this village have emigrated to Iceland since the 80’s and nobody has returned. Those who stayed behind - most of them from the older generation - are hoping for the reunion. But by now their children and grandchildren are settling into new lives on the other side of Europe. The distance separating them is great and the journey expensive, so they don’t get to hug each other very often. The best alternative is intensive contact by Skype.

Director. Born in 1981, graduated from the the ?ód? National Film School and from the Wajda School in Warsaw. Short documentary and fiction films he made so far received wide publicity at numerous film festivals around the world and got many prestigious awards. His documentary “Rogalik’ got IDFA nomination in 2012. It has also been shown and awarded at festivals such as Zagreb Dox, Alcine Festival (First Prize), festivals in Oberhausen, Beijing, Bucharest, Cracow and others. Apart from directing, Pawe? Ziemilski is involved in social animation, organizing workshops for so-called troubled youth. His latest “In Touch” documentary got a Mid-Length Special Jury Award at IDFA 2018.

– International Documentary Film Festival in Amsterdam IDFA 2018 – Special Jury Award (The Netherlands)
– Thessaloniki International Film Festival 2019 – Human Rights Award (Greece)
– Millennium Docs Against Gravity 2019 – Special Mention in Wroclaw (Poland)
– Skjaldborg Icelandic Documentary Film 2019 – Grand Jury Prize “The Spotlight” (Iceland)
– International Documentary Film Festival Millenium in Brussels 2019 (Belgium)
– One World Film Festival 2019 (Czech Republic)
– Krakowski Festiwal Filmowy 2019 (Poland)
– Astra Film Festival 2019 – Official Selection in Competition (Romania)
– Riga International Film Festival 2019 – Official Selection in Competition (Latvia)