Fading Snow
Fading Snow depicts a single night in the life of 35-year-old Mania, who abandons her sanctuary – the theatre – and embarks on a journey to find her way back home through the fractured cityscape of Warsaw, set against the stark backdrop of contemporary Poland. As the curtain falls, both personal and universal truths must be confronted. There is only what you can see.
Every human being knows the feeling of heartbreak. In such moments, an individual’s tragic event resonates with noticing other wounds in the surrounding reality.
Fading Snow, with its nightmarish structure, searches for hope that lies in confronting one’s own pain and Jungian shadow. The cure lies in facing darkness, opening ourselves to a state of not-knowing, to mystery, and in accepting profound loss. Strengthening happens through melting down.
Fading Snow is a diploma short fiction that I’ve written and directed under the supervision of Prof. Bronka Nowicka.
written and directed by: Ania Morawiec
DoP: Tomasz Wierzbicki
editing: Celina Przyklęk & Ania Morawiec
music: Teoniki Rożynek
sound design: Rafał Nowak
production manager: Bartek Kwapiński
produced by The Polish National Film School in Lodz
co-financed by The Polish Film Institute
cast, among others: Dominika Biernat, Jaśmina Polak, Mateusz Więcławek, Małgorzata Witkowska, Igor Kujawski, Marianna Zydek, Irena Jun, Arkadiusz Detmer
SCREENINGS & AWARDS:
Tampere International Film Festival, Finlandia, 2020 (world premiere)
Cork International Film Festival, Irland 2021
Riga International Film Festival, Riga, Latvia 2021
Leuven International Short Film Festival KORTFILM, Belgium 2021 (jury prize)
Ciudad de Panama Film Festival, Panama 2021 (best student film)
Cinalfama, Portugal, 2021 (best student film)
Młodzi i Film, Koszalin, Poland, 2021
L’Age d’Or International Arthouse Film Festival (LIAFF), Francce 2021
8th International Usak Short Film Festival, Turkey 2021
Zsigmond Vilmos International Film Festival, Hungary 2021
Lubuskie Lato Filmowe, Poland 2021
Kreivės Vilnius Festival, Lithuania 2021
Oslo/Fusion Film Festival, Norway 2021
FOTOFESTIWAL – International Festival, Poland 2021
SHORTS MÉXICO-International Short Film Festival of Mexico, Mexico 2021
Oudeis International Film Festival, Italy, 2022
Ouaga Côté Court – Festival International de Court Métrage de Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso 2022
Arctic Film Festival, Spitzbergen, 2023
Kerala Short Film Festival, India 2021
Stockholm City Film Festival, Sweden 2021 (best short film)
Short Stop International Film Festival, Romania, 2021