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Domino Effect

Elwira Niewiera, Piotr Rosołowski
Screening time  
26.02. / Thursday, 22:00 - 00:00 Theatre 5  
For Abkhazian Sports Minister Rafael, however, everything’s looking up. He’s hopeful that the mysterious Domino World Championship he’s organizing will finally put his beloved motherland on the world’s radar.

Abkhazia is a forgotten war torn country close to Crimea-Ukraine. Perched on the shores of the Black Sea, the unrecognized splinter state used to be a beach getaway for lucky Soviets, but palatial hotels now sit in post-communist ruin. For Abkhazian Sports Minister Rafael, however, everything’s looking up. He’s hopeful that the mysterious Domino World Championship he’s organizing will finally put his beloved motherland on the world’s radar and madly in love, he’s willing to overlook that his dear wife is a foreigner. A proud Russian opera singer, Natasha gave up her home and custody of her Russian daughter to take a chance on a new life. But when locals won’t warm to her and troubles cloud Rafael’s “sports” event, their bright future and even national pride start to wobble.

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Elwira Niewiera

Elwira Niewiera is a Polish/German director and screenwriter of the well-known documentary films Domino Effect, The Prince and the Dybbuk and The Hamlet Syndrome. She is the winner of many international awards, among others Grand Prix-Semaine de la Critique for the Best Film at 75th Locarno Film Festival, Best Documentary on Cinema at the 74th Venice Film Festival, Polish Film Academy Award for Best Documentary, and Golden Dove at DOK Leipzig Film Festival. In her artistic work, she focuses primarily on political, social and cultural transformations in Eastern Europe. She is a member of the European Film Academy.

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Piotr Rosołowski

Piotr Rosołowski is a Polish director, screenwriter, and cinematographer based in Berlin. He graduated from the Katowice Film School and was awarded an Academy of Media Arts scholarship in Cologne. Together with Elwira Niewiera he co-directed three successful feature documentaries: Domino Effect, The Prince and the Dybbuk and The Hamlet Syndrome. He also works as a director of photography and has shot many award-winning feature and short films.

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Domino Effect

Poland, Germany
2014, 76'

Directed by:
Elwira Niewiera, Piotr Rosołowski

Cinematography:
Piotr Rosolowski

Edited by:
Karoline Schulz, Andrzej Dąbrowski

Music:
Maciej Cieślak

Producers:
Anna Wydra, Ann Carolin Renninger, Thomas Kufus

Produced by:
Otter Films, zero one film