STILL FLYING…

Poland, 2018, 38’
Director and Writer: Miroslaw Dembinski
Cinematographer: Andrzej Musial
Producer: Miroslaw Dembinski
Editor: Miroslaw Dembinski
Sound: Grzegorz Lindemann
Production Company: Film Studio Everest

Janusz Orłowski aka „Grandpa” (Praszczur) is unique.

He began paragliding after he turned seventy. He stood out in the group of young, athletic paragliders at Monte Grappa in Italy by simply being the oldest.

Ten years later, at the age of 88, he started dreaming of flying from Mount Olympus. Although it was difficult for him to climb up Zeus’ mountain, he spread his wing at the top and soared into the air.

Grandpa has no intention of giving up, fulfilling one dream after another. At the age of 91 he rose to the height of 326 meters above the ground, earning himself a record in the Guinness Book of Records.

Still Flying… tells the story of Grandpa and documents the metaphorical path of man towards eternity.

AWARDS

Icare du Coup de Coeur, International Free Flying Film Festival, Saint-Hilaire du Touvet, France, 2019; Honorable Mention, XXVII International Festival of Mountain Films, Poprad, Slovakia, 2019; Award for the Best Professional Documentary Film, 17. Optimistic Film Festival Happy End, Rzeszow, Poland, 2019; Honorable Mention, Category Sports in Mountains & Nature, Mountainfilm Festival, Graz, Austria, 2019; Diable d’Or, Catégorie dépassement de soi (category «self-surpassing »), International Alpine Film Festival (FIFAD), Les Diablerets, Switzerland, 2019; V4 Prize, International Mountain, and Adventure Film Festival, Bratislava, Slovakia, 2019; Award for Best Character, International Film Festival “Krasnogorski”, Moscow, Russia, 2019.

MIROSLAW DEMBINSKI

Born in 1959 in Bydgoszcz (Poland), Miroslaw Dembinski graduated in Mathematics from the Torun University, later on studying as a director at the Polish National Film School in Lodz. He has been a documentary film making teacher since 1990. In his career, he has directed almost 30 films, series, and documentaries and received over 80 international film festival awards.

Filmography

My Little Everest (1989), Orange Alternative (1989), The Fruit of Black Soil (1992), A Summon (1996), Icarus (1999), It is necessary to live (2000), Shared Flight (2003), Winners and Losers (2004), Grandpa (2005), Dwarfs go to Ukraine (2005), A Lesson of Belorussian (2006), Music Partisans (2007), Pustelniks in the Mountains (2008), Still Flying… (2018).