Tropical Island

During the summer holidays a 19-year-old albino nicknamed Blady would like to break out from the blocks of flats and go to Tropical Island, an artificial island near Berlin. To get the money for it, he decides to sell a large red sofa in a pawnshop. There’s no-one else to help him so he needs to fight his fear of people and find a common language with Majk, a crook of his age. On the way he will change how he sees himself and the area.

A film about the feeling of otherness, about loneliness and friendship.

produced by Warszawska Szkoła Filmowa
artistic supervisor Maciej Ślesicki
written and directed by Filip Hillesland
director of photography Jakub Burakiewicz
production design by Barbara Ferlak, Natalia Maciejewska
costumes by Izabela Kostecka
make-up by Jagna Prochowska
sound by Mateusz Wójt
edited by Malwina Wodzicka
cast Paweł Dobek, Mike Lipiński, Maksymilian Michasiów, Rafał Rosiak, Oliwia Korzec, Wiktoria Korzec, Wafic Mohamed Abon Khadra, Magdalena Puch, Maciej Gruszczyński, Marek Dmoch
production manager Ada Mazurek
co-financed by Polski Instytut Sztuki Filmowej