A BLUE ROOM
POLISH TITLE: NIEBIESKI POKÓJ
A man wakes up in a blue room. He's stuck and he can't escape. A window is his only connection to the outer world. It filters the reality in a very mysterious way...
- GENRE:
- animation
- COUNTRY:
- FRANCE, POLAND
- RUNNING TIME:
- 15'
- YEAR:
- 2014
- DIRECTING:
- Tomasz Siwiński
- SCRIPT:
- Tomasz Siwiński
- DOP:
- Tomasz Siwiński
- EDITOR:
- Tomasz Siwiński
- MUSIC:
- Rémi Boubal
- PRODUCTION:
- Se-ma-for, Sacrebleu Productions
Tomasz Siwiński »
Tomasz Siwiński (born 1982) is an animation director specializing in painting technique. He graduated from Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow (Poland) where he studied Painting and Animation lectured by Jerzy Kucia. In 2014 he directed a short film A Blue Room. It had the world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival. Also received awards at Curtas Vila do Conde (Portugal), Krakow Film Festival (Poland) and many others. In addition to his original films, he also makes documentary animations, such as Moczarski’s Case (Vimeo Staff Pick). His films have been presented at numerous festivals , e.g. in Annecy, Clermont- Ferrand, Cannes, Hiroshima, Zagreb, Uppsala, Hong Kong.
AT FESTIVALS:
- Ottawa International Animation Festival 2014, Canada, 2014 (screening)
- 30th Warsaw Film Festival, Poland, 2014 (screening)
- 16th European Film Festival in Essone, France, 2014 (screening)
- 52nd Gijón International Film Festival, Spain, 2014 (screening)
- 13th Fantoche - International Animation Film Festival, Switzerland, 2015 (screening)
- 12th Jameson CineFest Miskolc IFF, Hungary, 2015 (screening)
- Play Poland Film Festival, United Kingdom, 2015 (screening)
- 17th International Animation Film Festival Animated Dreams, Estonia, 2015 (screening)
- 13th Anilogue - International Animation Film Festival, Hungary, 2015 (screening)
- 22nd International Short Film Week Regensburg, Germany, 2016 (screening)
- 20th REGARD - Festival international du court métrage au Saguenay, Canada, 2016 (screening)
- 29th Premiers Plans Film Festival, France, 2017 (screening)
- 24th Mecal Pro Barcelona International Short and Animation Festival, Spain, 2022 (screening)
- 53rd Semaine de la Critique Cannes, France, 2014 (competition)
- 22nd Curtas vila do Conde International Short Film Festival, Portugal, 2014 (Best Animated Film)
- 14th T-mobile New Horizons International Film Festival, Poland, 2014 (competition)
- 17th Guanajuato International Film Festival, Mexico, 2014 (Special Mention)
- 6th Animage International Animation Festival of Pernambuco, Brazil, 2014 (competition)
- 20th Athens International Film Festival, Greece, 2014 (competition)
- 21st International Animated Film Festival KROK, Russia, 2014 (competition)
- Animatou Animation Film Festival, Switzerland, 2014 (competition)
- 43rd Festival du Nouveau Cinema, Canada, 2014 (competition)
- International Short Film Festival of Cyprus, Cyprus, 2014 (competition)
- Naqsh Short Film Festival, Bahrain, 2014 (competition)
- 57th DOK. Leipzig, Germany, 2014 (competition)
- Primanima World Festival of First Animations 2014, Hungary, 2014 (competition)
- 30th interfilm International Short Film Festival, Germany, 2014 (competition)
- Cutout Fest 2014, Mexico, 2014 (Best Narrative Short Animation)
- 35th Villeurbanne Short Film Festival, France, 2014 (competition)
- 23rd International Sequence Short Film Festival, France, 2014 (competition)
- 32nd Tous courts International Short Film Festival, France, 2014 (competition)
- 11th International Animated Film Festival ANIMATEKA, Slovenia, 2014 (Special Mention)
- 37th Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival, France, 2015 (competition)
- 9th Tehran International Animation Festival, Iran, 2015 (competition)
- 9th Tehran International Animation Festival, Iran, 2015 (competition)
- 9th Tehran International Animation Festival, Iran, 2015 (competition)
- 39th Hong Kong International Film Festival, China, 2015 (Jury Prize)
- 6th ISAFF Roanne, France, 2015 (competition)
- Anifilm 06 - Intenarional Festival of Animated Films, Czech Republic, 2015 (competition)
- VIS Vienna Independent Shorts 2015, Austria, 2015 (competition)
- 55th Krakow Film Festival, Poland, 2015 (Silver Hobby-Horse for the Director of the Best Animated Film)
- 43 Festival of Nations, Austria, 2015 (competition)
- 8th Animator IAFF, Poland, 2015 (competition)
- Anima Mundi 2015, Brazil, 2015 (competition)
- Balkanima 2015, Serbia, 2015 (Special Mention)
- 16th Los Angeles Polish Film Festival, USA, 2015 (competition)
- Filmets Badalona 2015, Spain, 2015 (competition)
- 22nd IFF Etiuda&Anima, Poland, 2015 (SIlver Jabberwocky)