Marta Balaga Following musical sequences in her latest doc “Vika!,” Polish director Agnieszka Zwiefka will turn to animation for an upcoming project under the working title “Runa.” “What can I say?
I really like fusion cuisine,” she laughs. “I like hybrid films, because this division between documentary and fiction is completely pointless.
I see documentary as a very capacious bag. There is room for everything.” Partially animated “Runa,” produced by Chilli Productions (Poland), Real Lava (Denmark) and Ma.ja.de (Germany) – with ARTE and SWR also on board – introduces a Kurdish girl who needs to care for her siblings after their mother dies on the Polish-Belarusian border. “There is always strength in my characters and she’s probably the strongest one yet,” says Zwiefka, opening up about the film’s visual style developed by Yellow Tapir Films and Marcin Podolec. “Our reference was ‘Persepolis.’ These black and white forms, almost childlike drawings that, in this case, are coming straight from Runa’s sketchbook.
She would draw things that were really frightening. A girl on the edge of a precipice, ominous trees swallowing people, faces stretched in a silent scream.” While taking on the same tragic events as Agnieszka Holland in controversial “Green Border,” Zwiefka is not worried about eliciting the same response. “All we can do is continue making films as honestly as we can, because anyone can be judged.
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