International Short Film Competition
1st SCREENING
3rd July 2024 | 16:00
ELEKTROWNIA Cinema
(ul. Kopernika 1)
Free entry


Full of exuberance and frivolousness, six friends drive to the Polish Baltic coast and back in a small, dented car. During their trip, their car and their country fall apart. Nevertheless, life goes on. Their journey is interfused with memories and snapshots from the past.
Born in 1982 in Bern, Switzerland. Joint Swiss and Polish citizenship. She studied animation and illustration at the HSLU (Hochschule Luzern, Kunst & Design) and the ASP (Akademia Sztuk Pięknych) in Kraków. She has received numerous awards for her films and picture book, notably at the Oberhausen Short Film Festival and the Swiss Film Prize «Quartz 2009» for the best Animation Film for Tôt Ou Tard (2008) and at the Locarno Film Festival for The Bridge Over the River (2016).

Jadwiga Kowalska
The Car That Came Back From the Sea
Switzerland 2023
black and white 11 min
directed by
Jadwiga Kowalska
written by
Jadwiga Kowalska
producers
Jadwiga Kowalska, Laure Goasguen