Original title: Sometimes I Dream I'm Flying / title: CZASEM ŚNIĘ, ŻE LATAM
A stunning and gently journey of a talented young dancer and the bitter challenges she must face on her way to the greatest stages in the world. Shot over the period of six years the film portrays Weronika, an outstanding graduate of the renowned Warsaw Ballet School. Since she was 10 years old ballet has been her entire life, always striving for excellence. Weronika‘s private life, loneliness and exhaustion remain in the background, brushed aside, until her life is changed just two days before an important performance at the Berlin Opera. SOMETIMES I DREAM I‘M FLYING is a poetic film about the magic of dreams and hopes. Combining dream-like elements, an elaborated musical composition and documentary storytelling, the film takes an emotional approach to explore the relentlessness and loneliness in the life of an artist.

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Director Notes:
During the filming I was most moved by the tremendous solitude of our heroine – the ballet dancer. Looking at her daily struggles with her body, weaknesses and fears, I realized how all the people that we call artists are reliant on themselves, the power of their mind, talent, character. No one can replace them in their own work, they have to make choices on their own and face the audience. Creating art means loneliness, in case of dance - also solitude under the pressure of one careless step, which can ruin your whole effort (Aneta Popiel-Machnicka).

Festivals & Awards
»Blackmagic Design Cinematography Award« Slamdance Film Festival (2014)
»Golden Horse Award Nomination« 53. Krakow Film Festival (2013)
Competition, American Documentary Film Festival (2014)
Competition, Göteborg Int‘l Film Festival (2014)
Competition, 16. Doc Aviv Film Festival (2014)

Pictures for the film were shot over the course of 6 years. Most of the action takes place in the Warsaw Ballet School, Warsaw National Opera, The Ballet School and Small Theatre of St. Petersburg, The Carmen de Robles Academy of Dance in Las Palmas and two theatres of
Berlin Opera. In the final scenes fragments are recorded of the Berlin ballet premiere of THE OPEN SQUARE for which the world renowned Israeli choreographer Itzik Galili is the creator.

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