SMOLARZE - CHARCOAL BURNERS

by Piotr Złotorowicz
15’, Poland, 2010
Italian premiere
A couple, husband and wife, live in a small house on the edge of the forest. Their life’s work has been making coal according to the ancient art that has remained unchanged over time. The camera tenderly observes their daily life: the coal smoke, lunchtime, their few words exchanged, their affection for their old dog, and their good-natured bickering almost as though part of a fable from a lost world, but without the happy ending filled with health and happiness.
 

	Piotr Złotorowicz Piotr Złotorowicz, born 1982 in De ̧bno Lubuskie, Polond, earned a degree in electrical engineering in 2007 from the Szczecin University of Technology. From 2001 to 2006 he made his first films as an amateur and in 2006 began studying directing at the Polish National Film School in Łódz‘.