The Dress

TITLE

The Dress

DIRECTOR

Tadeusz Łysiak

COUNTRY

Poland

YEAR

2020

DURATION

30′

GENRE

Live Action

Overview

The Dress

Lust, sexuality and physicality. These are the deepest desires virgin Julia suppresses while working at a wayside motel. That is until she crosses paths with a handsome truck driver, who soon becomes the object of her fantasies...

DIRECTOR BIOGRAPHY​ - Tadeusz Łysiak

Director Tadeusz Lysiak, born 1993, is a graduate of Cultural Studies at the University of Warsaw and graduate of Directing at the Warsaw Film School in Poland. Tadeusz is the director of two award-winning short films: TECHNO (with over 1 million views on YouTube) starring actors Leszek Abrahamowicz, Danuta Stenka, Michalina Olszańska and THE DRESS starring Anna Dzieduszycka, Dorota Pomykala, Szymon Piotr Warszawski. THE DRESS has been awarded 17 times including Best Narrative Short Award at Atlanta Film Festival and Best Student Fiction Film at the 2021 In The Palace International Short Film Festival; two Oscar qualifying awards. His films have been selected to almost 60 top film festivals all over the world, including: EnergaCAMERIMAGE, HollyShorts, LA Shorts, Moscow IFF, San Diego, Odense, Flicker’s Rhode Island, Krakow Film Festival, Warsaw Film Festival. Tadeusz was also featured in the 2020 Generation NEXT of European Cinema within Eastern Promises at the Karlovy Vary Festival and he is the winner of the Discovering Eye Award, an award given to young talented filmmakers at the Polish Film Festival in Chicago. Tadeusz is currently working on his full feature debut, a drama-thriller with a big production company attached to the project.

Credits

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Tadeusz Łysiak

Director Tadeusz Lysiak, born 1993, is a graduate of Cultural Studies at the University of Warsaw and graduate of Directing at the Warsaw Film School in Poland. Tadeusz is the director of two award-winning short films: TECHNO (with over 1 million views on YouTube) starring actors Leszek Abrahamowicz, Danuta Stenka, Michalina Olszańska and THE DRESS starring Anna Dzieduszycka, Dorota Pomykala, Szymon Piotr Warszawski. THE DRESS has been awarded 17 times including Best Narrative Short Award at Atlanta Film Festival and Best Student Fiction Film at the 2021 In The Palace International Short Film Festival; two Oscar qualifying awards. His films have been selected to almost 60 top film festivals all over the world, including: EnergaCAMERIMAGE, HollyShorts, LA Shorts, Moscow IFF, San Diego, Odense, Flicker’s Rhode Island, Krakow Film Festival, Warsaw Film Festival. Tadeusz was also featured in the 2020 Generation NEXT of European Cinema within Eastern Promises at the Karlovy Vary Festival and he is the winner of the Discovering Eye Award, an award given to young talented filmmakers at the Polish Film Festival in Chicago. Tadeusz is currently working on his full feature debut, a drama-thriller with a big production company attached to the project.

SELECTIONS & AWARDS

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Academy Awards

Nominee for Best Live Action Short Film, 2022

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Tirana International Film Festival

Special Screening, 2022

Still Photos