Close provides a tender and cheerful snapshot of friendship and first love among a closely knit group of teenage girls in Poland.

AWARDS: Grand Jury Award for Outstanding Documentary Short Film at OUTFEST Film Festival, Los Angeles, 2010, Winner Best Cinematography & 2nd Best Documentary at VII Student Film festival Lodzia po Wiśle
, Warsaw, 2009

SELECTED SCREENINGS: 28th São Paulo International Short Film Festival, Curta Kinoforum 2009. Frameline 34: Thirty-fourth San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival, 2010. 39th Molodist Kyiv International Film Festival 2010. Shown in the category ”World’s Best Docs” at 21st Inside Out Annual Toronto LGBT Film and Video, Festival. KASHISH Mumbai International Queer Film Festival, India. 9th edition of Pink Screens Film Festival, Belgium. Zürich & Frauenfeld 2011, Switzerland. Skeive Filmer 20th Oslo Gay & Lesbian Film Festival 2010, Norway. Dwa Brzegi Film Festival 2009. Screened at the Antiracist Filmdays 2010 in Malmö, and at Kortfilmsdagen, 2014 Lund, Sweden. Göteborg Filmfestival 2009. OFF Cinema Poznan 2008.

DISTRIBUTION: Folkets Bio, “Kort och gratis” 2010 & published on dvd “Svensk kortfilm” Vol. 3 2010 c/o Folkets bio. Tv screening at Canal+planete.pl.

DIRECTOR/SCREENWRITER: Lucia von Horn Pagano DOP: Ita Zbroniec-Zajt, ARTISTIC SUPERVISION: Maria Zmarz-Koczanowicz, PRODUCTION MANAGERS: Mateusz Kalinowski, Alicja Kurzęmpa, MUSIC: Bogdan Klat, Jakup Eichelberger-Dybowski, SOUND DESIGN: Wojtek Emm SHOT IN: 35mm PRODUCER: PWSFT i T CO FINANCED by: The Polish Film Institute

Documentary, 9 min, 2008