BREAD AND SALT
Written & directed: Damian Kocur
Production: Poland 2022
Runtime: 100 min.
The festival premiere: Venice Film Festival 2022
Inspired by true events, played by non-professionals. Tymek, a young, talented pianist (plays himself) – student of the Warsaw Academy of Music, returns to his small hometown for a vacation, a place where time has stood still. The central meeting point for local youth is the newly created kebab bar. Tymek witnesses a growing conflict between Arab kebab workers and his colleagues from the neighborhood. A conflict that will turn out to be tragic.
CREDITS
Written and directed by: Damian Kocur
DOP: Tomasz Woźniczka
Editing: Alan Zejer
Art directing: Ewa Mroczkowska
Costume: Zuzanna Kot
Sound: Katarzyna Białas, Łukasz Kaczmarski
Production management: Weronika Pacewicz
Producers: Jacek Bromski, Ewa Jastrzębska, Jerzy Kapuściński
Production company: Munk Studio – Polish Filmmakers Association
Co-production companies: Canal+ Poland, Silesia Film Fund, KIVI Sp. z o.o., King House Michał Sadowski, EXA Studio
CAST
Nadim Suleiman as Nadim
Nadeem Shalave as Nadeem
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DIRECTOR'S BIO
Director and cinematographer. A graduate of Cinematography and Photography at Krzysztof Kieslowski’s Film School in Katowice and a PhD student at the Łódź Film School. He is the author of internationally awarded short films. His last film „Beyond Is the Day” won, among others, Award for Best Short Film at the International Film Festival in Trieste, Tehran, best European film at Clermont-Ferrand and was qualified for a European Film Award Nomination. The film was shown at the New Directors / New Films review at MOMA in New York in 2021. As a filmmaker, he follows the credibility of emotions on the screen and considers the authenticity of the presented characters and their stories as the most important goal.
