SUMMA

Poland, 2018, 50’
Director: Andrei Kutsila
Scriptwriters: Andrei Kutsila, Tatiana Bembel
Cinematographer: Andrei Kutsila
Producer: Miroslaw Dembinski
Editors: Andrei Kutsila, Pawel Klepacz
Sound: Artyom Busel
Production Company: Film Studio Everest/ Polish Film Institute

A young Belarusian artist leaves her husband behind in Minsk to visit her friend, the elderly painter Andrzej Strumillo, in his idyllic manor house in Poland. For her, the trip offers a welcome diversion from city life; for him, it’s a break from a lonely existence marked by old age. The pleasant routine of drawing, talking, horse-riding and chores around the house is interrupted only by calls from the artist’s husband, who wants her to come home. But she wants to stay longer—she isn’t finished here yet…

AWARDS
Best Mid-Length Documentary, IDFA, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2018; Silver Hobby-Horse for the director of the best Polish documentary film, Krakow Film Festival, Poland, 2019; Grand Prize, International Documentary Competition, XXXIII Pärnu Film Festival, Estonia, 2019; Prize of the Guild of Film Critics of the Belarusian Union of Filmmakers “Straw Bison”, 26th MIFF Listapad, Minsk, Belarus, 2019.

ANDREI KUTSILA

Born in 1983 in Baranovichi, Belarus, Andrei Kutsila earned a degree in journalism from the Belarusian State University in 2007. In 2009 he finished the Belarusian State Academy of Arts. Currently, he works as a freelancer for studios and TV. He made more than 10 short and mid-length films. Andrei was a participant of many international educational projects (including IDFAcademy and Berlinale Talents). In 2018 Andrei got the IDFA Award for Best Mid-Length Documentary for his film Summa.

Filmography
Focal Distance (2008), Kill the Day (2010), Enough! To Freedom… (2012), Love in Belarus (2013), Guests (2015), Where You Belong (2015), Passing BY (2016), 25 (2016), King of the Hill (2017), Summa (2018), Strip and war (2019).