Euganea Film Festival

Programme

• 6 july - friday
• 7 july - saturday
• 8 july - sunday
• 12 july - thursday
• 13 july - friday
• 14 july - saturday
• 15 july - sunday
• 18 july - wednesday
• 19 july - thursday
• 20 july - friday
• 21 july - saturday
• 22 july - sunday

Competition

• Shorts Films
• Documentaries
• Animation
• Cinemambulante

Planete Kirsan

by Magdalena Pieta

Documentary | Poland | 2010 | DigiBeta | 50 min.

italian subtitles by EMM

Date

sunday 15 july

Location

TORREGLIA, Villa dei Vescovi

13-year old Alehan and his brother Amir spend several hours everyday hunched over a chessboard. It’s his biggest dream to become the next World Chess Champion. The first step on the way to become a grandmaster is a tournament in Chess-City. The event. Full of young players, allows us to see the actors and creators as well as expose the mechanisms behind the Kalmykian chess fairytale. For Alehan it’s a chance to examine his dreams more closely. Ilyumzhinov’s revolution was supposed to transform the whole republic, but can it even change the life of just one small boy?

Biography/Filmography:

Magdalena Pieta studied humanistics at the Warsaw University and film directing at Polish National Film School in Lodz, scriptwriter and director of short films („Who art thou?”, „Hunger”, „Everything will be”). „Planet Kirsan” is her first long documentary film.

Direction

Magdalena Pieta

Story

Magdalena Pieta

Script

Magdalena Pieta

Photography

Michal Popiel-Machnicki

Editing

Mateusz Romaszkan

Music

Anna Widermanska

Production

Eureka Media

Distribution

Krakow Film Foundation