Dancing in the Corner

After the fall of communism in 1989, color TVs were no longer a luxury good in Poland. The screens in many Polish homes are beginning to look more like the reality outside the window. But is reality truly colorful?

The film won the award for best short film at the Istanbul Film Festival 2025 and participated in La Semaine de la Critique 2024, the Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival 2025, or the Warsaw International Film Festival 2024. The film had its Czech premiere on BOO 2025.

A graduate of the National Film School, Television and Theatre in Łódź, Jan Bujnowski is currently pursuing his doctorate and serving as a lecturer at the same institution. Prior to this, he studied journalism and Art History at the University of Warsaw. His latest short film, Tea time with Diabeł, received a special mention from the jury at the Clermont-Ferrand Festival 2023; it has been screened at over 60 festivals worldwide, including the Oberhausen International Short Film Festival and ZINEBI.