My Nikifor – Polish Film Festival

The account of friendship between Marian Włosiński, a graduate from the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow and a visual artist of the Spa Houses in Krynica, and the disabled illiterate painter. Based on a true story from the life of Epifan Drowniak, a genius primitivist painter known as Nikifor Krynicki. On 15th April 1960, he entered Włosiński’s studio and said: I will paint here! He just popped in but stayed for the rest of his life. The action of the film depicts three months of 1960, two days of 1967 when a large gallery of Nikofor’s works was open in Zachęta and one day of 1968 – the day he died. It’s the film about the spiritual life of an artist who creates most excellent works thanks to his spiritual freedom.