Martial Law – They Weren’t Left Alone / Stan wojenny. Nie byliśmy sami

Jan Czarlewski

Jan Czarlewski (1988) is a Franco-Polish director who works between Paris, Lausanne et Warsaw. He graduated from ECAL/the Ecole cantonale d’art de Lausanne in 2012. He likes to explore the off-beat and ironic, in both documentaries and fiction. His short subjects The Ambassador & Me and Stammering Love retrospectively won a Golden and Silver Leopard at the Locarno Film Festival. Between 2015 and 2016, he filmed a 50-minute documentary about a popular Polish polar adventurer who crossed Europe on foot from Russia to Santiago de Compostela. From 2017 to 2019, he worked on the most important documentary series based on historic archives made in Poland after 1989 – Polskie 100 lat (Polish 100 years). He was responsible for the screenplay and archival research, and he directed eight of the 42 thirty minute episodes.