Papa

Synopsis
The film is shaped as a diary of the author's memories telling about the problematic relationship between father and daughter caused by the father's mental illness, and the troubles caused by this condition during the author's growth.

The need of the author to free herself from the influence of the past and to break the shell of silence around this painful situation brings her back to Belarus, to shoot interviews with various family members and collect also their memories and points of view.

In the end the author decides that it's time to leave this circle of painful opinions behind and strengthen her own good memories of her father building the chance to finally build a new relationship between an adult daughter and the father.
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Credits
Film title: Papa (2020)
Duration time: 28:42
Animation technique: collage animation / stop motion
Directing: Maryia Yakimovich
Music: Michał Papara
Sound: Michał Papara

Producer:
Animation Film Studio in Kraków, Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts
E-mail: animationstudio@asp.krakow.pl
Website: www.film.asp.krakow.pl

Biography
Maryia is born in Minsk, Belarus in 1993 and from an early age she shows interest and attitude toward the world of arts. After the studies made at the Minsk's Art Lyceum she moves to Krakòw where she studies Fine Arts for one year in the Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski University before enrolling in the Animation course of the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts. During these years she partecipated in exhibitions and travelled as a street artist, creating watercolour, graphic and ink artworks that have been sold to customers all around the world.

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Papa - Maryia Yakimovich