Life Feels Good

Life Feels Good (Polish: Chce się żyć) is a 2013 Polish drama film directed by Maciej Pieprzyca.

Life Feels Good
Chce się żyć
Directed by	Maciej Pieprzyca
Written by	Maciej Pieprzyca
Produced by	Wiesław Łysakowski
Starring	Dawid Ogrodnik Dorota Kolak Arkadiusz Jakubik Anna Nehrebecka Katarzyna Zawadzka Kamil Tkacz
Cinematography	Pawel Dyllus
Edited by	Krzysztof Szpetmański
Music by	Bartosz Chajdecki
Production companies	Tramway Film Studio Silesia Film Telewizja Polska - Agencja Filmowa
Distributed by	Kino Świat
Release dates	August 25, 2013 (2013-08-25) (Montreal World Film Festival) September 2013 (2013-09) (Gdynia Film Festival, Poland)
Running time	107 minutes
Country	Poland
Language	Polish
Box office	$1 438 531^[1]

It won the jury, audience and ecumenical prizes at the Montreal World Film Festival.^[2]

Plot

It tells the story of Mateusz Rosiński who has cerebral palsy in Poland and his life from the 1980s to 2000s. It is inspired by true events.

Cast

• Dawid Ogrodnik - Mateusz
• Kamil Tkacz - young Mateusz
• Dorota Kolak [pl] - Mateusz's mother
• Arkadiusz Jakubik - Mateusz's father
• Anna Nehrebecka - Jola, teacher
• Helena Sujecka - Matylda
• Mikołaj Roznerski - Tomek
• Tymoteusz Marciniak - young Tomek
• Katarzyna Zawadzka - Magda
• Anna Karczmarczyk - Anka
• Agnieszka Kotlarska - Anka's mother
• Janusz Chabior - "Łysy"
• Gabriela Muskała - doctor
• Lech Dyblik - healer
• Dariusz Chojnacki - Matylda's fiancé
• Izabela Dąbrowska - neighbor
• Witold Wieliński - neighbor
• Mirosław Neinert - uncle
• Grażyna Bułka - aunt
• Klaudia Kąca-Jasik - cousin
• Małgorzata Moskalewicz - Tomek's girlfriend
• Bernadetta Komiago - customer
• Marek Kalita - Magda's father
• Teresa Iwko - Magda's stepmother
• Grzegorz Mielczarek - counselor Krzysztof
• Ewa Serwa - head of medical center

Awards

Award		Category	Recipient	Result
Polish Film Awards 2014^[3]^[4]	Eagle	Best Film		Nominated
		Best Director	Maciej Pieprzyca	Nominated
		Best Screenplay	Maciej Pieprzyca	Won
		Best Editing	Krzysztof Szpetmański	Nominated
		Best Leading Actor	Dawid Ogrodnik	Won
		Best Supporting Actress	Anna Nehrebecka	Won
		Best Supporting Actor	Arkadiusz Jakubik	Won
		Audience Award		Won
Montreal World Film Festival 2013^[5]	Grand Prix des Americas			Won
	Public Award	Most Popular Film of the Festival		Won
	Ecumenical Prize			Won
Gdynia Film Festival 2013^[3]	Silver Lion			Won
	Audience Award			Won
Chicago International Film Festival 2013^[6]^[7]	Silver Hugo	New Directors Competition		Won
	Audience Choice Award	Best Narrative Foreign-Language Feature		Won
International Film Festival TOFIFEST 2013^[8]	Golden Angel	From Poland competition Audience Award		Won
Polish Film Festival in America 2013^[9]	Golden Teeth	Most Interesting Feature Film		Won
Cleveland International Film Festival 2014^[10]	Roxanne T. Mueller Audience Choice Award	Best Film		Runner Up
	George Gund III Memorial Award	Central and Eastern European Film Competition		Won
Polish Society of Cinematographers 2014^[11]	PSC Award		Pawel Dyllus	Nominated
Off Plus Camera International Festival of Independent Cinema 2014^[12]	Polish Feature Film Competition	Best Actress	Dorota Kolak	Won
New York Polish Film Festival 2014^[13]	Krzysztof Kieslowski Prize	Best Film		Won
	Elzbieta Czyszewska Award	Best Acting	Dawid Ogrodnik	Won
Seattle International Film Festival 2014^[14]	Golden Space Needle	Best Film		First Runner-up
		Best Director	Maciej Pieprzyca	First Runner-up
		Best Actor	Dawid Ogrodnik	Won
Golden Linden International Film Festival of New European Cinema 2014^[15]	Golden Linden	Best Actor	Dawid Ogrodnik	Won
VOICES Film Festival 2014^[16]	Audience Prize			Won

References

1. "Life Feels Good (2013)". Box Office Mojo.
2. Scheib, Ronnie (September 2, 2013). "Montreal Film Review: 'Life Feels Good'". Variety. Retrieved January 20, 2015.
3. "Life Feels Good". www.intramovies.com. Intramovies. Retrieved January 19, 2015.
4. Kalecińska, Olga. . www.offpluscamera.com/en/. Off Plus Camera. Archived from the original on January 21, 2015. Retrieved January 20, 2015.
5. "Awards of the Montreal World Film Festival - 2013". www.ffm-montreal.org. World Film Festival. Retrieved January 19, 2015.
6. . old.chicagofilmfestival.com. Cinema/Chicago Inc. October 18, 2013. Archived from the original on January 28, 2015. Retrieved January 23, 2015.
7. "The Audience Choice Awards, Presented by American Airlines, Announced by the 49th Chicago International Film Festival". old.chicagofilmfestival.com. Cinema/Chicago Inc. October 28, 2013. Retrieved January 23, 2015.
8. "The Golden Angel of Tofifest goes to 'The Girl from the Wardrobe'". www.tofifest.pl/en/. TOFIFEST. Retrieved January 20, 2015.
9. "Awards". www.pffamerica.org. Polish Film Festival in America. Retrieved January 20, 2015.
10. "Winners - Cleveland International Film Festival". www.clevelandfilm.org. CIFF. Retrieved January 20, 2015.
11. . en.psc.pl. Polish Society of Cinematographers. Archived from the original on November 29, 2014. Retrieved January 21, 2015.
12. "Laureates of the 7th edition of the OFF PLUS CAMERA Festival". www.offpluscamera.com/en/. Off Plus Camera. Retrieved January 20, 2015.
13. . www.nypff.com. NYPFF. Archived from the original on December 30, 2014. Retrieved January 20, 2015.
14. Eggers, Rachel (June 8, 2014). "SIFF Announces 2014 Golden Space Needle & Competition Awards". www.siff.net. SIFF. Retrieved January 12, 2015.
15. "Best Actor Award – DAWID OGRODNIK". thegoldenlinden.com/?lang=en. The Golden Linden Festival. Retrieved January 24, 2015.
16. "The Winners of the 5th VOICES Film Festival". www.voices-festival.org. VOICES. July 9, 2014. Retrieved January 20, 2015.

External links

• Life Feels Good at IMDb