The Abandoned Town
A poetical and moving documentary that depicts the dramatic fate of a part of Italian minority in Istria through the prism of one man's fate.
Magdalena Piekorz
An awarded Polish scriptwriter, film and TV director and theater director.
Magdalena Piekorz was born in Sosnowiec, Poland in 1974. Scriptwriter and film, TV and theater director. She has a PhD in cinema studies. She graduated in Film Directing from the Department for Radio and Television of the University of Silesia. Her documentaries have won several awards. She directed the 25-episode documentary TV series Chicago. In 2004 she directed her first fiction film, Welts, based on a Wojciech Kuczok's text. The film won the First Prize at the Golden Lion Polish Film Festival in Gdynia. It was Poland's Oscar nominee in 2005
Filmography
Girls from Szymanow, documentary (1997)
Spontaneous Franciscan, documentary (1998)
Newcomers, documentary (1999)
Labyrinth, documentary (2001)
Find, See, to Bury, documentary (2001)
Abandoned Town, documentary (2002)
Chicago, documentary series (2002)
Aristocrats in the New Russia, documentary (2004)
The Welts, fiction (2004)
Discontinued Lot, documentary (2007)
Drowsiness, fiction (2008)