Ela - Szkice na Pozegnanie
Ela - Sketches on a Departure

film type fiction Production Country Germany production year 2017 runtime 25'39 colour Color
screening format DCP aspect ratio 2.35:1 (CinemaScope) sound format Dolby A original-language Polish subtitles English, German, French
screening format Blu-Ray aspect ratio 2.35:1 (CinemaScope) sound format Dolby Digital original-language Polish subtitles English, German, French

Ela lives in a small provincial town in Poland. Her daily life is stuck in a routine, balancing work and family. But Ela has a dream: Like many young Polish people, Ela, too, wants to escape the tristesse of the council housing estate and move West, into a better life.

director Oliver Adam Kusio Cast Bartosz Sak, Björn Heienbrock, Karolina Porcari, Karolina Romuk-Wodoracka, Mikolaj Trzybinski Original Score Azadeh Zandieh Sound Design Azadeh Zandieh Szenenbild / Production Design Fanny Welz Editing Anna-Lena Laura Engelhardt DOP Marco Müller Production Simon B. Stein Script Oliver Adam Kusio film school Filmuniversität Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF
Festivals
2017 FILMFEST DRESDEN - International Short Film Festival, Dresden, Germany (Goldener Reiter)
2017 Festival de Cannes - Internationale Filmfestspiele von Cannes, France
2017 ZINEBI - International Festival of Documentary and Short Film of Bilbao, Spain
2017 KFFK/Kurzfilmfestival Köln, Germany
2017 Sehsuechte – Internationales Studierendenfilmfestival Sehsüchte, Potsdam-Babelsberg, Germany
Awards
2017 Deutscher Kurzfilmpreis 2017
Production
  • Filmuniversität Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF
  • Cristina Marx
  • Marlene-Dietrich-Allee 11
  • 14482 Potsdam
  • Germany
  • +49 331 6202564
  • http://www.filmuniversitaet.de
Distribution
  • Filmuniversität Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF
  • Cristina Marx
  • Marlene-Dietrich-Allee 11
  • 14482 Potsdam
  • Germany
  • +49 331 6202564
  • http://www.filmuniversitaet.de
Sales
  • Filmuniversität Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF
  • Cristina Marx
  • Marlene-Dietrich-Allee 11
  • 14482 Potsdam
  • Germany
  • +49 331 6202564
  • http://www.filmuniversitaet.de
School
  • Filmuniversität Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF
  • Marlene-Dietrich-Allee 11
  • 14482 Potsdam
  • Germany
  • +49 331 6202564
  • http://www.filmuniversitaet.de

Oliver Adam Kusio

Studied art history and philosophy in Frankfurt/Main and Berlin;
internships (theatre & film), whilst writing and directing his own short films;
since 2011 he has been collaborating with Rosa von Praunheim;
since 2014 studies film directing at the Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF

Filmography
2013 A Hard Life