director Andrzej Jakimowski
screenplay Andrzej Jakimowski
director of photography Adam Bajerski, Paweł Śmietanka
music Tomasz Gąssowski
with Zbigniew Zamachowski, Małgorzata Foremniak, Andrzej Chyra, Andrzej Mastalerz, Rafał Kuźniczak, Ola Prószyńska (child)
awards (selection) Eagle, Polish Film Award for Best Film, Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Acotr (Zbigniew Zamachowski) and Audience Award, 2004
FIPRESCI Prize, Special Mention at Mannheim's Film Week, 2002
SKYY Prize at San Francisco International Film Festival, 2004
Grand Prix, Golden Rose at Sochi International Film Festival, 2004
Jury Special Prize, awards for Best Debut Director, Best Cinematography, Best Art Direction (Ewa Jakimowska) and Best Costume (Katarzyna Bartel, Ola Staszko) at the 28th Polish Film Festival in Gdynia, 2003
Silver Grape at Lubuskie Film Summer in Łagów, 2003
Special Jury Award at International Film Festival of the Art of Cinematography ‘Camerimage’, 2003
Journalists Award and wards for cinematography and music at the the National Film Art Festival ‘Provincionality’ in Września, 2003
Warsaw Marmaid (Syrenka Warszawska), Film Critics Club SDP Award, 2003
Golden Film (Złota Taśma) award of the Writers Association SFP, 2004
Andrzej Munk Award for Andrzej Jakimowski, Adam Bajerski and Paweł Śmietanka, 2004
Golden Duck (Złota Kaczka), ‘Film’ magazine Readers Award, 2004
ANDRZEJ JAKIMOWSKI, SKY ABOVE YOUR HEAD; TALK WITH JERZY WÓJCIK [NIEBO NAD GŁOWĄ; ROZ MO WA Z JERZYM WÓJ CI KIEM], ‘RZECZPOSPOLITA’, 2003, NO. 249
I construed ‘Squint Your Eyes’ in such a way that my 9-yearold daughter could also see the film and find answers to questions troubling the young mind about the essence of time, passing away, death… I did not want to pile up incomprehensible concepts but to stir the imagination.
TADEUSZ SOBOLEWSKI, YOU DON’T HAVE TO RACE SO MUCH [NIE MUSICIE TAK PĘDZIĆ], ‘GAZETA WYBORCZA’, 24 X 2003
Jakimowski wants to tell his stories in spite of the popular cinematic principle purporting that we are all slaves of real-life plots (…). In the cinema, like in music, the events may happen to be monotonous, and yet they are fascinating (…). That’s why the author throws us off trails – what is most important and most interesting occurs between his heroes. Contrary to appearances in this story it is not Jan (a creation from Zbigniew Zamachowski) who is an escapist and outsider – these features characterise the little girl-thief in his charge (…). The pretty final scene functions as a lesson in observation. Perhaps we shouldn’t worry so much that we are going to miss something important if we do not race together with others. What is really important is already inside us.
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