Life Feels Good Explained

Life Feels Good
Native Name:	Chce się żyć
Director:	Maciej Pieprzyca
Producer:	Wiesław Łysakowski
Starring:	Dawid Ogrodnik Dorota Kolak Arkadiusz Jakubik Anna Nehrebecka Katarzyna Zawadzka Kamil Tkacz
Music:	Bartosz Chajdecki
Cinematography:	Pawel Dyllus
Editing:	Krzysztof Szpetmański
Production Companies:	Tramway Film Studio Silesia Film Telewizja Polska - Agencja Filmowa
Distributor:	Kino Świat
Runtime:	107 minutes
Country:	Poland
Language:	Polish
Gross:	$1 438 531^[1]

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

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 - 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

Colspan=2	Award	Category	Recipient	Result
Rowspan=8	Polish Film Awards 2014^[3] ^[4]	Rowspan=8	Eagle	Best Film
Best Director	Maciej Pieprzyca
Best Screenplay	Maciej Pieprzyca
Best Editing	Krzysztof Szpetmański
Best Leading Actor	Dawid Ogrodnik
Best Supporting Actress	Anna Nehrebecka
Best Supporting Actor	Arkadiusz Jakubik
Audience Award
Rowspan=3	Montreal World Film Festival 2013^[5]	Grand Prix des Americas
Public Award	Most Popular Film of the Festival
Ecumenical Prize
Rowspan=2	Gdynia Film Festival 2013	Silver Lion
Audience Award
Rowspan=2	Chicago International Film Festival 2013^[6] ^[7]	Silver Hugo	New Directors Competition
Audience Choice Award	Best Narrative Foreign-Language Feature
International Film Festival TOFIFEST 2013^[8]	Golden Angel	From Poland competition Audience Award
Polish Film Festival in America 2013^[9]	Golden Teeth	Most Interesting Feature Film
Rowspan=2	Cleveland International Film Festival 2014^[10]	Roxanne T. Mueller Audience Choice Award	Best Film
George Gund III Memorial Award	Central and Eastern European Film Competition
Polish Society of Cinematographers 2014^[11]	PSC Award		Pawel Dyllus
Off Plus Camera International Festival of Independent Cinema 2014^[12]	Polish Feature Film Competition	Best Actress	Dorota Kolak
Rowspan=2	New York Polish Film Festival 2014^[13]	Krzysztof Kieslowski Prize	Best Film
Elzbieta Czyszewska Award	Best Acting	Dawid Ogrodnik
Rowspan=3	Seattle International Film Festival 2014^[14]	Rowspan=3	Golden Space Needle	Best Film
Best Director	Maciej Pieprzyca
Best Actor	Dawid Ogrodnik
Golden Linden International Film Festival of New European Cinema 2014^[15]	Golden Linden	Best Actor	Dawid Ogrodnik
VOICES Film Festival 2014^[16]	Audience Prize

Notes and References

1. Web site: Life Feels Good (2013). Box Office Mojo.
2. News: Montreal Film Review: 'Life Feels Good' . . September 2, 2013 . January 20, 2015 . Scheib, Ronnie.
3. Web site: Life Feels Good . Intramovies . January 19, 2015 . www.intramovies.com.
4. Web site: The Eagles 2014 . Off Plus Camera . January 20, 2015 . Kalecińska, Olga . www.offpluscamera.com/en/ . https://web.archive.org/web/20150121193634/http://www.offpluscamera.com/en/informacje/szczegoly/info/the-eagles-2014 . January 21, 2015 . dead .
5. Web site: Awards of the Montreal World Film Festival - 2013 . World Film Festival . January 19, 2015 . www.ffm-montreal.org.
6. Web site: 49th Chicago Film Festival Announces Award Winners . Cinema/Chicago Inc. . October 18, 2013 . January 23, 2015 . old.chicagofilmfestival.com . https://web.archive.org/web/20150128113843/http://old.chicagofilmfestival.com/news/display_news.php?article=49th_chicago_film_festival_announces_award_winners . January 28, 2015 . dead .
7. Web site: The Audience Choice Awards, Presented by American Airlines, Announced by the 49th Chicago International Film Festival . Cinema/Chicago Inc. . October 28, 2013 . January 23, 2015 . old.chicagofilmfestival.com.
8. Web site: The Golden Angel of Tofifest goes to 'The Girl from the Wardrobe' . TOFIFEST . January 20, 2015 . www.tofifest.pl/en/.
9. Web site: Awards . Polish Film Festival in America . January 20, 2015 . www.pffamerica.org.
10. Web site: Winners - Cleveland International Film Festival . January 20, 2015 . CIFF . www.clevelandfilm.org.
11. Web site: PSC Award 2014 . Polish Society of Cinematographers . January 21, 2015 . en.psc.pl . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20141129093851/http://en.psc.pl/psc-award/psc-award-2014/ . November 29, 2014 .
12. Web site: Laureates of the 7th edition of the OFF PLUS CAMERA Festival . Off Plus Camera . January 20, 2015 . www.offpluscamera.com/en/.
13. Web site: Awards & Recognition - The 10th Anniversary NYPFF . NYPFF . January 20, 2015 . www.nypff.com . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20141230075151/http://www.nypff.com/wocms.php . December 30, 2014 .
14. Web site: SIFF Announces 2014 Golden Space Needle & Competition Awards . June 8, 2014 . January 12, 2015 . Eggers, Rachel . SIFF . www.siff.net.
15. Web site: Best Actor Award – DAWID OGRODNIK . The Golden Linden Festival . January 24, 2015 . thegoldenlinden.com/?lang=en.
16. Web site: The Winners of the 5th VOICES Film Festival . VOICES . July 9, 2014 . January 20, 2015 . www.voices-festival.org.