FICTION FEATURE FILM | 75’ | Polonia| 2023
DIRECTOR AND SCREENWRITER : Aniela Astrid Gabryel
CAST: An Napieralski, Dominika Walo, Julia Szczepańska, Dominik Mirończuk, Michał Włodarczyk
PREMIERE: España
SYNOPSIS
“Close your eyes and each look at your fears for yourself.”
This is a picture of young people looking for new ways to understand and express themselves. The film has a mosaic structure, six stories create a portrait of our generation. Body, religion, hypnosis therapy, politics, eco-activism, shamanism are the paths on which the protagonists confront their greatest fears and obsessions in the hope of finding release.
FESTIVALS:
- Debut22 Festival de Cine 2024
- Festival de Cine Independiente de Idromeno 2024
- Festival Internacional de Cine de Porto Femme 2024
- Festival de Estrenos de Películas para los Húmeos y la Película 2023
- Festival Internacional de Cine y Arte de Atenas 2024
- Festival Internacional de Cine de Lulea 2024
BIO DIRECTOR
Aniela Astrid Gabryel, film director and screenwriter. A graduate of Film Directing at Polish National Film School in Łódź and of Theatre studies at Jagiellonian University. She received her PhD in Film Arts at Polish Film School in Łódź with honours. She also received the Award of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage for outstanding artistic achievements. Her short films have been awarded and shown at many festivals in Poland and around the world. The short documentary film “Fly – or not to fly” received, among others, the Grand Prix at the “Vienna Independent Shorts” film festival in Vienna and was on the Top European Shorts list. Her feature-length documentary debut “When Will this Wind Stop” received an award at the IDFA festival. In 2023, her feature debut “Different paths to holiness” premiered at the “Młodzi i Film” festival in Koszalin and the documentary “Radical Move” at the Krakow Film Festival, where it won the award for best producer (KOI Studio). In her films, she experiments and looks for new ways of storytelling.