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Film „Po pierwsze...” w reżyserii Adama Hartwińskiego, ze zdjęciami Michała Konopki, powtórzył zeszłoroczny sukces „Sukienki” i otrzymał Nagrodę dla Najlepszego Filmu Polskiego festiwalu Grand Off.

Photo. Michał Sierszak / Warsaw Film School

Grand OFF is the most important initiative promoting independent cinema in Poland and one of the most important event of this type in the world. The festival draws attention to the phenomenon of independent cinema and gives it the appropriate rank, seriousness and prestige. 

Our film „First...", winner of this year's Grand Prix of the festival, raises the important issue of the lack of legal regulations regarding the so-called donation for birth, i.e. deciding that a fetus with a lethal defect may become an organ donor after birth. It also highlights the problem of a complete lack of systemic support for women, who are usually left alone in the face of such difficult dilemmas.

Photo. Michał Sierszak / Warsaw Film School

During the final gala of the 16th Grand OFF, the director was accompanied by Gabriela Czyżewska-Detmer, an actress playing the role of Marysia, and our Deputy Rector for Communication and New Media, Ewa Maria Szczepanowska, who presented the award for the best editing during the ceremony.

Congratulations to the crew of our film and to all the nominees and winners!

Photo: Michał Sierszak / Warsaw Film School

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FIRST... 

The film's protagonist, 40-year-old beauty vlogger Marysia, finds out that the baby she is expecting has an incurable genetic defect and probably will die soon after birth. A desperate woman makes a difficult decision to give birth to a child and donate its kidney to the sick Anielka.

CAST: Arek Demter, Gabriela Czyżewska-Detmer, Anna Grycewicz, Jacek Beler, Dorota Salamon, Jerzy Wojtkowski, Hanna Jasińska, Grzegorz Porzeziński

DIRECTOR: Adam Hartwiński SCRIPT: Adam Hartwiński, Aldona Hartwińska DOP: Michał Konopka EDITING: Maciej Gawda SOUND: Kacper Karpowicz, Michał Rusnarczyk MUSIC: Andrzej Bonarek PRODUCTION MANAGER: Aleksandra Fornal ARTISTIC SUPERVISION: Barbara Pawłowska, Andrzej Jaroszewicz, Maciej Ślesicki, Arek Detmer, Wojciech Saramonowicz PRODUCER: Maciej Ślesicki PRODUCTION: Warsaw Film School

Adam Hartwiński – (born in 1988). For as long as he can remember, he has been floating between two cultures - Polish and Swedish. Born in Warsaw, raised in Stockholm. There he completed film and documentary courses at Sundbyberg Folkhögskola. He returned to Poland to study. He graduated from Warsaw Film School.

Films by students of the Warsaw Film School are co-financed by the Polish Film Institute