This Is Not Happening

Bartek learns that his teenage son is the perpetrator of a murder at school. The distraught boy runs to his dad, so Bartek hides out with him in his fiancée’s flat. He tries to get hold of a car in which they can escape abroad. When his partner tries to stop him, she becomes his hostage. She then confesses to him that she’s pregnant. Bartek is faced with the dilemma of which child is more important to him. As he tries to get everything under control, he grows up to confront the truth about his son and himself as a father.

The film is the director’s feature debut.

written by: Artur Wyrzykowski
director of photography: Ernest Wilczyński
music: Teoniki Rożynek
production design: Joanna Hrisulidu
costume design: Kamila Buturyn
make-up: Klaudia Majcher
sound: Paulina Sacha
edited by: Sandra Ksepka
casting by: Marta Olczak
cast: Tomasz Schuchardt, Paulina Gałązka, Borys Otawa
production: Bold Humans
producer: Artur Wyrzykowski
executive producers: Maciej Szczygieł – IDEO, Piotr Muradow – IDEO
co-produced by: Canal+ Polska, Wytwórnia Filmów Fabularnych we Wrocławiu, Dolnośląskie Centrum Filmowe, Coloroffon, Coolkeyplay
production manager: Piotr Muradow