Short Film Competition – Polish Film Festival

Some things can be said only when the end is near. Balancing between fiction and documentary, the film is a directorial self-portrait and a story about familial forgiveness. Kuba leaves rehab to come home for Christmas. His younger brother, Janek, does not believe he has changed. Will the world on the brink of destruction bring the family back together?

To save her relationship, a young woman battling an eating disorder must stop feeding her clothes to an insatiable washing machine and dare to dive into the depths of her own lie.

On the day before Christmas Eve, nine-year-old Kacper gives a tight hug to his big brother, who has finally come home. When Kacper realises that his older brother is not who he used to be, he tries to draw him back into his childish world, in the hope of winning back a friend who may have left it forever. The film is the director’s debut.

Doma presents herself as a femme fatale. Her internet presence, erotic confidence, and the stringent control she exerts over her image have become her survival strategy in the world ridden with economic violence and social breakdown. Reality starts to creep into her carefully curated persona, gradually blurring the line between performance and authentic experience. A derelict tenement house where she lives reveals its own history.

Ania, a young primary school teacher, accidentally sends a nude photo of herself to a student who has a crush on her.

The year is 2194. Transfers between the digital and the physical world have become part of everyday life. In specialised facilities, bodies are cultivated for artificial intelligences seeking human form. At one such facility, an officer from the Department of Embodiments arrives to speak with a being completing its transformation.