Life Feels Good
2013 Polish film
- Dawid Ogrodnik
- Dorota Kolak
- Arkadiusz Jakubik
- Anna Nehrebecka
- Katarzyna Zawadzka
- Kamil Tkacz
Production
companies
companies
- Tramway Film Studio
- Silesia Film
- Telewizja Polska - Agencja Filmowa
Release dates
- August 25, 2013 (2013-08-25) (Montreal World Film Festival)
- September 2013 (2013-09) (Gdynia Film Festival, Poland)
Running time
Life Feels Good (Polish: Chce się żyć) is a 2013 Polish drama film directed by Maciej Pieprzyca.
It won the jury, audience and ecumenical prizes at the Montreal World Film Festival.[2]
Plot
It tells the story of Mateusz Rosiński who has cerebral palsy in Poland and his life from the 1980s to 2000s. It is inspired by true events.
Cast
- Dawid Ogrodnik - Mateusz
- Kamil Tkacz - young Mateusz
- Dorota Kolak [pl] - Mateusz's mother
- Arkadiusz Jakubik - Mateusz's father
- Anna Nehrebecka - Jola, teacher
- Helena Sujecka - Matylda
- Mikołaj Roznerski - Tomek
- Tymoteusz Marciniak - young Tomek
- Katarzyna Zawadzka - Magda
- Anna Karczmarczyk - Anka
- Agnieszka Kotlarska - Anka's mother
- Janusz Chabior - "Łysy"
- Gabriela Muskała - doctor
- Lech Dyblik - healer
- Dariusz Chojnacki - Matylda's fiancé
- Izabela Dąbrowska - neighbor
- Witold Wieliński - neighbor
- Mirosław Neinert - uncle
- Grażyna Bułka - aunt
- Klaudia Kąca-Jasik - cousin
- Małgorzata Moskalewicz - Tomek's girlfriend
- Bernadetta Komiago - customer
- Marek Kalita - Magda's father
- Teresa Iwko - Magda's stepmother
- Grzegorz Mielczarek - counselor Krzysztof
- Ewa Serwa - head of medical center
Awards
Award | Category | Recipient | Result | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Polish Film Awards 2014[3][4] | Eagle | Best Film | Nominated | |
Best Director | Maciej Pieprzyca | Nominated | ||
Best Screenplay | Maciej Pieprzyca | Won | ||
Best Editing | Krzysztof Szpetmański | Nominated | ||
Best Leading Actor | Dawid Ogrodnik | Won | ||
Best Supporting Actress | Anna Nehrebecka | Won | ||
Best Supporting Actor | Arkadiusz Jakubik | Won | ||
Audience Award | Won | |||
Montreal World Film Festival 2013[5] | Grand Prix des Americas | Won | ||
Public Award | Most Popular Film of the Festival | Won | ||
Ecumenical Prize | Won | |||
Gdynia Film Festival 2013[3] | Silver Lion | Won | ||
Audience Award | Won | |||
Chicago International Film Festival 2013[6][7] | Silver Hugo | New Directors Competition | Won | |
Audience Choice Award | Best Narrative Foreign-Language Feature | Won | ||
International Film Festival TOFIFEST 2013[8] | Golden Angel | From Poland competition Audience Award | Won | |
Polish Film Festival in America 2013[9] | Golden Teeth | Most Interesting Feature Film | Won | |
Cleveland International Film Festival 2014[10] | Roxanne T. Mueller Audience Choice Award | Best Film | Runner Up | |
George Gund III Memorial Award | Central and Eastern European Film Competition | Won | ||
Polish Society of Cinematographers 2014[11] | PSC Award | Pawel Dyllus | Nominated | |
Off Plus Camera International Festival of Independent Cinema 2014[12] | Polish Feature Film Competition | Best Actress | Dorota Kolak | Won |
New York Polish Film Festival 2014[13] | Krzysztof Kieslowski Prize | Best Film | Won | |
Elzbieta Czyszewska Award | Best Acting | Dawid Ogrodnik | Won | |
Seattle International Film Festival 2014[14] | Golden Space Needle | Best Film | First Runner-up | |
Best Director | Maciej Pieprzyca | First Runner-up | ||
Best Actor | Dawid Ogrodnik | Won | ||
Golden Linden International Film Festival of New European Cinema 2014[15] | Golden Linden | Best Actor | Dawid Ogrodnik | Won |
VOICES Film Festival 2014[16] | Audience Prize | Won |
References
- ^ "Life Feels Good (2013)". Box Office Mojo.
- ^ Scheib, Ronnie (September 2, 2013). "Montreal Film Review: 'Life Feels Good'". Variety. Retrieved January 20, 2015.
- ^ a b "Life Feels Good". www.intramovies.com. Intramovies. Retrieved January 19, 2015.
- ^ Kalecińska, Olga. "The Eagles 2014". www.offpluscamera.com/en/. Off Plus Camera. Archived from the original on January 21, 2015. Retrieved January 20, 2015.
- ^ "Awards of the Montreal World Film Festival - 2013". www.ffm-montreal.org. World Film Festival. Retrieved January 19, 2015.
- ^ "49th Chicago Film Festival Announces Award Winners". old.chicagofilmfestival.com. Cinema/Chicago Inc. October 18, 2013. Archived from the original on January 28, 2015. Retrieved January 23, 2015.
- ^ "The Audience Choice Awards, Presented by American Airlines, Announced by the 49th Chicago International Film Festival". old.chicagofilmfestival.com. Cinema/Chicago Inc. October 28, 2013. Retrieved January 23, 2015.
- ^ "The Golden Angel of Tofifest goes to 'The Girl from the Wardrobe'". www.tofifest.pl/en/. TOFIFEST. Retrieved January 20, 2015.
- ^ "Awards". www.pffamerica.org. Polish Film Festival in America. Retrieved January 20, 2015.
- ^ "Winners - Cleveland International Film Festival". www.clevelandfilm.org. CIFF. Retrieved January 20, 2015.
- ^ "PSC Award 2014". en.psc.pl. Polish Society of Cinematographers. Archived from the original on November 29, 2014. Retrieved January 21, 2015.
- ^ "Laureates of the 7th edition of the OFF PLUS CAMERA Festival". www.offpluscamera.com/en/. Off Plus Camera. Retrieved January 20, 2015.
- ^ "Awards & Recognition - The 10th Anniversary NYPFF". www.nypff.com. NYPFF. Archived from the original on December 30, 2014. Retrieved January 20, 2015.
- ^ Eggers, Rachel (June 8, 2014). "SIFF Announces 2014 Golden Space Needle & Competition Awards". www.siff.net. SIFF. Retrieved January 12, 2015.
- ^ "Best Actor Award – DAWID OGRODNIK". thegoldenlinden.com/?lang=en. The Golden Linden Festival. Retrieved January 24, 2015.
- ^ "The Winners of the 5th VOICES Film Festival". www.voices-festival.org. VOICES. July 9, 2014. Retrieved January 20, 2015.
External links
- Life Feels Good at IMDb
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