DOCU/SHORT

Rogalik

Year
2012
Country
Poland
Duration
17’
Director
Paweł Ziemilski

While traveling among people and objects we discover a world usually considered as ugly and unattractive. This dream-like journey is not a dream. Who are the people in this ‘big aquarium’? And what is our attitude towards them? Is it possible to detect any visual beauty at all in empty or cluttered rooms, with their occupants of all ages running around, reading a book, brewing coffee and making noises as they move among all kinds of beeping appliances, blaring TVs and radios? This short visual journey through various households shows just how lively, unique and atmospheric these places can be. It's as if we're secretly watching different scenes in a dolls’ house. So, who are the people in this cinematic aquarium? Are they aware of us, the voyeurs? What is their relationship with each other? And how should we relate to their experimental dream journey in what is perhaps the most visually underrated of all locations – home?

Production
Polish National Film School in Łódź, Marcin Malatyński, Targowa 61/63, 90-323 Łódź, Poland, +48426345880, [email protected], [email protected]
Sales:
Krakow Film Foundation, Katarzyna Wilk, Basztowa 15/8a, 31-143 Krakow, Poland, +48122946945, [email protected], www.kff.com.pl
Director
Paweł Ziemilski
Paweł Ziemilski, born in 1981, is a fifth-year student of Directing at the National Film School in Łódź. He also has a Master's in Sociology from the University of Warsaw. He has been dividing his time between directing short films, finishing his Master's at the Łódź School, and social film projects among different marginalized communities. This latter activity recently evolved into a fund for youth from a small village where he first started giving cinema workshops in 2009. Several of Ziemilski's documentary films deal with the places and people he has come to know through such projects.
Selected Filmography
Swedish Job (2011), Rogalik (2012)
Red Hall
Cinema House
vul. Saksahanskoho, 6
Q & A with directors
22 INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVAL
 6 — 13 
June 2025
24 buckets, 7 mice, 18 years
DOCU/SHORT
24 buckets, 7 mice, 18 years
Year
2012
Country
Romania
Director
Marius Iacob
Duration
30’
DOCU/SHORT
ABC
DOCU/SHORT
ABC
Year
2012
Country
Germany
Director
Madli Lääne
Duration
12’
DOCU/SHORT
Blossom with Tears
DOCU/SHORT
Blossom with Tears
Year
2012
Country
China
Director
Huaqing Jin
Duration
38’
DOCU/SHORT
Cutting Loose
DOCU/SHORT
Cutting Loose
Year
2011
Country
Scotland
Directors
Finlay Pretsell, Adrian McDowall
Duration
29’
DOCU/SHORT
The Dream
DOCU/SHORT
The Dream
Year
2012
Country
Ukraine
Director
Daria Driuchenko
Duration
20’
DOCU/SHORT
E-Wasteland
DOCU/SHORT
E-Wasteland
Year
2012
Country
Australia
Director
David Fedele
Duration
20’
DOCU/SHORT
Galumphing
DOCU/SHORT
Galumphing
Year
2012
Country
Poland
Director
Kamila Józefowicz
Duration
42’
DOCU/SHORT
…Let our lives continue in others
DOCU/SHORT
…Let our lives continue in others
Year
2012
Country
Russia
Director
Georgy Molodtsov
Duration
37’
DOCU/SHORT
Oilman
DOCU/SHORT
Oilman
Year
2012
Country
Azerbaijan
Director
Seyran Mahmudoglu
Duration
26’
DOCU/SHORT
Pouters
DOCU/SHORT
Pouters
Year
2012
Country
Scotland
Director
Paul Fegan
Duration
17’
DOCU/SHORT
The Silent Chaos
DOCU/SHORT
The Silent Chaos
Year
2012
Country
Democratic Republic of Congo, Italy
Director
Antonio Spanò
Duration
44’
DOCU/SHORT
Sirs and Misters
DOCU/SHORT
Sirs and Misters
Year
2013
Country
Ukraine
Director
Oleksandr Techynsky
Duration
35’
DOCU/SHORT
Presuda
DOCU/SHORT
Presuda
Year
2013
Country
Croatia
Director
Đuro Gavran
Duration
10’
DOCU/SHORT
Written in Ink
DOCU/SHORT
Written in Ink
Year
2011
Country
Poland
Director
Martin Rath
Duration
11’
DOCU/SHORT