Screening on E Kino Pod Baranami in Polish with English subtitles.
The film “Kill It and Leave This Town” received a jury award in the main competition of the 44th International Animation Film Festival in Annecy. The film directed by Mariusz Wilczyński is co-financed by the Polish Film Institute. The French online event took part between 15 till 30 of June.
The world premiere of “Kill It and Leave This Town” took place in the Encounters competition at the 70th International Film Festival in Berlin. The film is the full-length directorial debut of Mariusz Wilczyński. Voices in the animation are given by, among others Krystyna Janda, Andrzej Chyra, Maja Ostaszewska and Małgorzata Kożuchowska.
It is an autobiographical impression, reminiscence of childhood images, in which the memory of deceased parents and the hometown of Łódź comes to life. A team of talented animators cooperated with the implementation of the film: Agata Gorządek, Jakub Wroński, Marta Pajek, Agnieszka Borowa, Marta Magnuska, Joanna Jasińska-Koronkiewicz, Paweł Walicki, Kacper Czyczyło, Agnieszka Konarska and Anita Kwiatkowska-Naqvi. The author of the music for the film is Tadeusz Nalepa.
About film:
ZABIJ TO I WYJEDŹ Z TEGO MIASTA | Kill It and Leave This Town
dir. Mariusz Wilczyński, Poland 2019, 88’
Escaping despair after losing loved ones, the hero hides in a safe land of memories, where time stands still and all his loved ones live. Over the years, the city develops in his imagination. One day childhood heroes and idols known from literature and cartoons, who are forever young in the minds of subsequent generations, come uninvited. When the hero discovers that everyone has grown old and eternal youth does not exist, he decides to return to real life.
