YOUR NAME IS JUSTINE
(MASZ NA IMIĘ JUSTINE)



2005, 97 min., Poland-Germany-Luxembourg
DIRECTION:
Franco de Pena
SCRIPT:
Franco de Pena, Tomasz Kępski, Chris Burdza
CINEMATOGRAPHY:
Arek Tomiak
MUSIC:
Nikos Kypourgos
EDITING:
Jarosław Kamiński
ART DIRECTION:
Christina Schaffer
PRODUCED BY:
Opus Films
PRODUCERS:
Piotr Dzięcioł, Stephan Carpiaux, Wioletta Gradkowska
CAST:
Anna Cieślak (Mariola), Arno Frisch (Niko), Malgorzata Buczkowska (Hania), Katarzyna Cygler (Ola), Rafal Maćkowiak (Artur)

Luxembourg's Official Submission for the Academy Awards '06 in a Foreign Language Film category

Mariola dreams about a better life. She wants to leave the small provincial town where she lives. Her boyfriend Artur invites her for a short vacation to Germany, the country of his residence, to introduce beautiful fiancé to his parents. On their way they spend the night at Artur's friends in Berlin. When his pals show up, they hand him the money. It turns out that Mariola has just been sold to be a prostitute.

Two million people are sold worldwide everyday. Two hundred thousand of them are women sold to work in brothels. Fifteen thousand of them are Polish women. The film is a story about one of them.

Franco de Pena
B. 1966 in Caracas, Venezuela. Director and scriptwriter. The Lodz Film School graduate ( Film Directing, 1995). Made numerous award winning shorts and documentaries including It May Be a Sin That I Am Praying (1993, Main Jury Prize at Caracas IFF & Silver Dragon at Cracow IFF) and The Future of Illusions (1997, FIPRESCI Award at Cracow IFF & Prix Europe Award for the best doc at the Mediawave FF in Budapest).

Filmografia:

Sunday, November 5, 2006 at 5:30 pm. (Gateway Theatre)

Friday, November 10, 2006 at 7:00 pm. (Portage Theatre)

Wednesday, November 15, 2006 at 7:30 pm.
(Beverly Arts Center)