Bad Lyrics

Director and screenwriter: Marcin Maziarzewski

Director of photography: Weronika Bilska

Editor: Przemysław Chruścielewski

Music: Melancholy

Production managers: Zuzanna Król-Maziarzewska, Monika Nowak, Marcin Frania

Artistic supervisor: Jerzy Stuhr

Cast: Grzegorz Mielczarek, Magdalena Kumorek, Sebastian Stankiewicz, Zbigniew Wróbel, Magdalena Drab, Kamila Grzybowska

Year of production: 2009

Running time: 25'

Peter is a professional sound studio engineer who suffers from the very rare disease - the Tourrette Syndrome - expressed with, among other things, uncontrolled shouting of dirty words and nasty phrases. This is a tragicomedy movie story about a man who struggles with their own limitations, about his search for relations with the other man.

Festival screenings of the film:

36th Filmets Badalona Film Festival, Spain (2010) - Venus de Badalona Award for Best Film and Friends of Zorrilla Theatre Award for Best Actor for Grzegorz Mielczarek

30th Munich International Festival of Film Schools, Germany (2010) - in competition

22nd Istanbul International Short Film Festival, Turkey (2010) - screening

12th Festival of European Cinema in Essonne, France (2010) - screening

12th Ravenna International Short Film Festival, Italy (2011) - European Sogni Award

Play Poland Film Festival, travelling (2012) - screening

Corona Fastnet Short Film Festival, Ireland (2013) - screening

17th Camerimage International Film Festival, Poland (2009) - Golden Tadpole in the Student Etudes Competition and Polish Filmmakers Association's Award

10th New Horizons International Film Festival, Poland (2010) - Audience Award in the Polish Short Films Competition

17th International Film Festival Etiuda & Anima, Kraków (2010) - Student Jury Prize in the Etiuda Competition

35th Gdynia Film Festival, Poland (2010) - in competition

29th The Youth and Film - The Festival of Film Debuts in Koszalin, Poland (2010) - in competition

3rd International Film Festival The Doors, Poland (2010) - First Prize in the Student Film competition

2nd Short Waves Film Festival, Poland (2010) - Grand Prix

56th Nationwide Independent Film Competition OKFA, Poland (2010) – Grand Prix and Special Prize

11th Independent and Amateur Film Festival KAN, Poland (2010) - Best Short Fiction Film

7th Węgiel International Student Film Festival, Poland (2010) - Special Mention

17th Nationwide Film Festival Prowincjonalia, Poland (2010) - Best Short Fiction Film

9th International Independent Film Forum, Poland (2010) - First Prize

International Film Festival POL-8, Poland (2010) - First Prize in the Student Film category

8th "Opolskie Lamy" Film Festival, Poland (2010) - Grand Prix in the Student Etudes Competition

5th Independent Film Festival "OFF jak gorąco", Poland (2010) - Grand Prix and Best Directing

8th Multimedia Happy End Film Festival, Poland (2010) - The Best Short Fiction Student Film

4th Golden Anteaters Film Festival, Poland (2010) - Best Directing and Audience Award

"Filmowa Góra" Film Festival, Poland (2010) - Grand Prix and Audience Award

15th "New Polish Cinema - Cinemahrad" Film Festival, Poland (2010) - Best Fiction Film

3rd TARNOwidz Film Festival, Poland (2010) - in competition

16th Summer of Films, Poland (2010) - Special Mention for Grzegorz Mielczarek

50th Kraków Film Festival, Poland (2010) - screening

10th International Independent Film Forum, Poland (2011) - Jan Machulski Polish Independent Cinema Award for Best Actor for Grzegorz Mielczarek

4th Polish Film Meetings "Kameralne Lato", Poland (2011) - in competition

8th European Film Festival "Integration You and Me", Poland (2011) - Audience Award

23rd Camerimage International Film Festival, Poland (2015) - screening