COMPETITION

European student films

Programme 3

There Are People in the Forest

W lesie sa ludzie

Szymon Ruczynski
2023 - Poland - 10mn

Screenings : wednesday 24 - 4:45 pm - Centre de congrès - Auditorium - presented and followed by a debate with the film directors

On the Polish-Belarussian border a lonely man limps down the road. He is looking to cross.

Szymon Ruczynski was born in Hajnowka, Poland, in 2000. He is currently a student in the Animated Film and Special Effects department at the Polish National Film School in Łódź. He grew up in a village in the centre of the ancient Bialowieza Forest which is the source of inspiration for his films. In 2021 and 2022 Szymon participated in bringing humanitarian aid to refugees hiding in the forest. He uses mixed animation techniques to tell stories about socially relevant problems he witnesses.

CAST AND CREW

Screenplay : Szymon Ruczynski
Cinematography : Szymon Ruczynski
Sound : Szymon Ruczynski
Editing : Szymon Ruczynski

Production : École nationale de cinéma de Łódź

SCHOOL

Łódź Film School
Przemek Glajzner
61/63 Targowa St., 90-323 Łódź
Pologne
+48 42 27 55 817
przemek@filmschool.lodz.pl

The Łódź Film School is the main film school in the country. The school was founded in March 1948 in Łódź, the country's second-largest city, and initially was meant to transfer to Warsaw after the reconstruction of the capital, following its destruction during the Second World War. Finally, the school stayed in Łódź and has become one of the most important cinema schools in Europe. Its first director was director and playwright Leon Schiller.