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Luksus

directed and edited by Jarosław Sztandera written by Jarosław Sztandera, Tomasz Olejarczyk director of photography Radosław Ładczuk

 

Awards:

  • CFC Worldwide Short Film Festival, Canada 2010 - Telus Audience Choice Award
  • Almeria en Corto, Spain 2009 - Grand Prize
  • Anchorage International Film Festival, Anchorage 2009 - special recognition in Best Short Films category
  • St Petersburg International Youth Film Festival, St. Petersburg, 2009 - award for Best Actor (Piotr Sokołowski)
  • Sehsüchte Student Film Festival, Potsdam 2009 - award for Best Editing

  • International Short Film Festival, Clermont- Ferrand, France, 2009 - Young Jury Award
  • "Łodzią po Wiśle" Student Film Festival, Warsaw, 2008 - Award for Cinematography and Audience Award
  • Film Debut Festival "The Youth and Film" Koszalin, 2008 - "Small Amber" Award for Best Short Feature Plot
  • Polish Film Festival, Gdynia, 2008 - Grand Prix in Young Cinema Competition

Luxury" is the main character's nickname: 17-year-old boy who became "too old" for his long-time client and pimp, Popers, a 40-year-old paedophile. Luxury is dumped at the same railway station from which Papers picked him up many years ago. The boy has no place to go, nor does he know any way to live other than as a child prostitute...