America

Director and screenwriter: Aleksandra Terpińska

Director of photography: Bartosz Bieniek

Editor: Przemysław Chruścielewski

Production manager: Beata Rzeźniczek

Artistic supervisors: Jerzy Stuhr, Wojciech Smarzowski

Cast: Marta Mazurek, Aleksandra Adamska, Małgorzata Trofimiuk, Andrzej Konopka, Bartosz Gelner

Year of production: 2015

Running time: 30'

Once upon a time in America... Two teenagers – Anka and Dzastina – play around with dreams about a better life. The two inseparable friends, bored with their everyday existence, decide to hitch-hike. A meant-to-be innocent adventure changes into an emotional game in which truth intertwines with fiction and the sequence of consecutive events irreversibly changes mutual relations of the characters and their perspective of existing world.

Film represented by Krakow Film Foundation

Festival screenings of the film:

10th Off-Film Festival FilmOffo, Poland (2017) - Golden Hedgehog Audience Award

Shnit Worldwide Shortfilmfestival (2016) - Best Film up to 40 minutes

5th Annual Winchester Short Film Festival, Great Britain (2016) - Special Mentions in the International Competition

13th Filmfest Eberswalde - Provinziale, Germany (2016) - Best Short Feature Film

3rd Student International Film Festival, Croatia (2016) - Best Short Feature Film

12th Early Bird International Student Film Festival, Bulgaria (2016) - Early Bird Grand Award

23rd International Film Festival Febiofest, Slovakia (2016) - in competition

28th Filmfest Dresden, Germany (2016) - Golden Horseman of the Youth Jury in the International Competition

45th International Student Film Festival Sehsüchte, Germany (2016) - Best Short Film

26th Mediawave International Film and Music Gathering, Hungary (2016) - in competition

18th Tel Aviv International Student Film Festival, Israel (2016) - in competition

24th Art Film Fest, Slovakia (2016) - Special Mention

Odense International Film Festival, Denmark (2016) - in competition

7th One Country One Film - Apchat International Film Festival, France (2016) - in competition

31st Alpinale Short Film Festival, Austria (2016) - in competition

14th Shnit International Short Film Festival, Switzerland (2016) - in competition

9th La Cabina International Film Festival, Spain (2016) - in competition

Filmets Badalona Film Festival, Spain (2016) - in competition

13th FilmFest Eberswalde, Germany (2016) - in competition

10th Thessaloniki International Short Film Festival, Greece (2016) - in competition

Kyoto International Student Film & Video Festival, Japan (2016) - in competition

4th Fer Film International Film Festival, Republic of Kosovo (2016) - in competition

3rd Sose International Film Festival, Armenia (2016) - in competition

Festival Partie(s) de campagne, France (2016) - in competition

24th Curtas Vila do Conde International Film Festival, Portugal (2016) - screening

55th Krakow Film Festival, Poland (2015) - in competition

23rd Camerimage International Film Festival, Poland (2015) - Golden Tadpole in the Student Etudes Competition and Polish Filmmakers Association's Award

15th New Horizons International Film Festival, Poland (2015) - Special Prize in the Zoom Competition

34th The Youth and Film - The Festival of Film Debuts in Koszalin, Poland (2015) -  Special Mention

10th International Short Film Festival Zubroffka, Poland (2015) - Best Student Film

44th Lubuskie Film Summer, Poland (2015) - in competition

9th Film and Art Festival Two Riversides, Poland (2015) - Third Prize in the Independent Short Film Competition

19th Summer with Muses Festival, Poland (2015) - in competition

31st Warsaw Film Festival, Poland (2015) - screening

42nd Ińsko Film Summer, Poland (2015) - screening

5th Sokołowsko Film Festival Hommage à Kieślowski, Poland (2015) - screening

23rd Nationwide Film Festival Prowincjonalia, Poland (2016) - Best Short Fiction Film

19th International Film Festival Zoom-zbliżenia, Poland (2016) - Grand Prix

13th Węgiel International Student Film Festival, Poland (2016) - Best Directing and Best Polish Film

62nd Nationwide Independent Film Competition OKFA, Poland (2016) - in competition

Transatlantyk Festival, Poland (2016) - in competition

9th Polish Film Meetings "Kameralne Lato", Poland (2016) - in competition

16th Sopot Film Festival, Poland (2016) - in competition

3rd "To Tylko Montaż" Film Fest, Poland (2016) - in competition

12th Best Off Film Festival, Poland (2016) - in competition

8th Short Waves Film Festival, Poland (2016) - screening

18th Cinema at the Border Film Festival, Poland (2016) - screening

Ars Independent Festival, Poland (2016) - screening

6th Student Art Festival sSAFka, Poland (2016) - screening

2. Long Story Short Film Festival, Wrocław, Poland (2021) – screening