Krzysztof Kopczyński: Inga

Lovely with a short film on this site. In this case a gem. Polish, directed and produced by Krzysztof Kopczyński, who – again, see note below – delivers professional camerawork (Michał Popiel-Machnicki) and sound and editing. Inga is a little Ukrainian girl, who has fled the country at war and lives with her blind parents along with five cats and a dog (!), after Russia invaded Ukraine on her fifth birthday. She is full of life, gives directions to her father in the streets, dresses up and lets her mother guess, what she looks like.

Her father went blind, when he was 13 and apparently Inga could lose her eyesight as well. It’s very touching, when you see her close her eyes as if she wants to know how it is to be blind.

Krzysztof Kopczyński has chosen some everyday scenes from their home, some birthday celebrations, including Inga’s and her grandmother’s, also blind, who turns 65. There is a wonderful scene, where Inga tells her family about a statue in a park and there is a fine sequence with the father going to Ukraine on a special mission.

28 minutes – I wonder if the director has thought of a continuation, following how life goes on for Inga?

Poland, 2025, 28 mins.

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About Krzysztof Kopczyński (from the website Polish Docs)Documentary filmmaker, PhD, Professor at the University of Warsaw. He produced over 50 documentaries which have been shown at festivals in 70 countries at least and won about140 awards. Director of documentaries “Stone Silence” (Afghanistan, 2007, screened in 40 countries) and “The Dybbuk: A Tale of Wandering Souls” (Ukraine, 2015, 20 countries). He is a winner of 25 film awards and a member of the European Film Academy as well as the Polish Film Academy.

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Tue Steen Müller
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Documentary Consultant and Critic, DENMARK

Worked with documentary films for more than 20 years at the Danish Film Board, as press officer, festival representative and film consultant/commissioner. Co-founder of Balticum Film and TV Festival, Filmkontakt Nord, Documentary of the EU and EDN (European Documentary Network).
Awards: 2004 the Danish Roos Prize for his contribution to the Danish and European documentary culture. 2006 an award for promoting Portuguese documentaries. 2014 he received the EDN Award “for an outstanding contribution to the development of the European documentary culture”. 2016 The Cross of the Knight of the Order for Merits to Lithuania. 2019 a Big Stamp at the 15th edition of ZagrebDox. 2021 receipt of the highest state decoration, Order of the Three Stars, Fourth Class, for the significant contribution to the development and promotion of Latvian documentary cinema outside Latvia. In 2022 he received an honorary award at DocsBarcelona’s 25th edition having served as organizer and programmer since the start of the festival.
From 1996 until 2005 he was the first director of EDN (European Documentary Network). From 2006 a freelance consultant and teacher in workshops like Ex Oriente, DocsBarcelona, Archidoc, Documentary Campus, Storydoc, Baltic Sea Forum, Black Sea DocStories, Caucadoc, CinéDOC Tbilisi, Docudays Kiev, Dealing With the Past Sarajevo FF as well as programme consultant for the festivals Magnificent7 in Belgrade, DOCSBarcelona, Verzio Budapest, Message2Man in St. Petersburg and DOKLeipzig. Teaches at the Zelig Documentary School in Bolzano Italy.

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