Joanna d'Arc
Director: Aleksander Szamałek
Screenwriter: Aleksander Szamałek
Director of photography: Aleksander Szamałek
Editor: Aleksander Szamałek, Wojciech Mrówczyński
Composer: Dawid Biegun
Production manager: Maria Kawalec
Artistic supervisor: Marcin Koszałka
Year of production: 2022
Running time: 30'
Aneta is the manager of an erotic massage parlor in France. She left Poland to find her own path but nothing goes as she would like it to. Pressing problems with her partner and growing up children motivate her to take her life in her hands. Will she succeed to get back on track and find the peace she's been looking for for so long?
Festival screenings of the film:
19. Millennium Docs Against Gravity Film Festival, Poland, 2022 – in short film competition
41. Koszalin Festival of Film Debuts Młodzi i Film, Koszalin, Poland 2022 – in competition
14. Short Waves Festival, Poznań, Poland, 2022 – in Polish Competition
17. filmPOLSKA Festival, Berlin, Germany, 2022 – screening
5. Polish Film Festival Vistula in Kyrgyzstan, 2022 – screening
10. Polish Film Festival Vistula in Tajikistan, Dushanbe, 2022 - screening
Sevil International Women’s Documentary Film Festival, Ganja, Azerbaijan, 2022 – screening
14. Solanin Film Festival, Nowa Sól, Poland, 2022 – in competition
8. Przeźrocza Film Festival, Bydgoszcz, Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland, 2022 - Grand Prix
7. Lower Silesia Film Festival "Złoty Samorodek", Złotoryja, Poland, 2022 - II Award in the Documentary Category
20. Opolskie Lamy Film Festival, Opole, Poland, 2022 – Special Mention in the Short Documentary Category
8. SPEKTRUM Film Festival, Świdnica, Poland, 2022 – Special mention of the Jury in The Youth Perspective - Documentary competition, II Award of the local jury consisting of people inmates in Świdnica Detention Center
8. Play Poland Film Festival, United Kingdom, 2022 - screening
3. Polish Film Festival Vistula in South Korea, 2022 – screening
2. Polish Film Festival Vistula in Vietnam, 2022 – screening
