Good Boy
19-year-old Tommy enjoys his carefree life full of drugs and reckless violence. One night he is kidnapped by a stranger, Chris. As he wakes up in a cellar of a house somewhere on the outskirts, Tommy finds himself in the middle of a dysfunctional family dynamic. Chris and his mysterious wife, Kathryn, are trying to make him a ‘good boy’ by forcefully resocialising him in a specific way. While he has to read books and learn good manners, only one thing is on Tommy’s mind: how to escape this place.
Credits
director
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costumes
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cast
production
Skopia Film, Recorded Picture Company
producers
Jeremy Thomas, Jerzy Skolimowski, Ewa Piaskowska
co-produced by
Venatu Capital, Canal+ Polska, TVN Warner Bros. Discovery, Wytwórnia Filmów Dokumentalnych i Fabularnych, Screen Yorkshire, Desmar
production manager
Joanna Strzelecka
co-financed by
Polski Instytut Sztuki Filmowej, Ministerstwo Kultury i Dziedzictwa Narodowego, Samorząd Województwa Kujawsko-Pomorskiego, Fundusz Filmowy Kujawy Pomorze, Międzynarodowy Festiwal Filmowy BellaTOFIFEST, BFI
distributed by
Kino Świat
intenational sales
HanWay Films
Accessibility
Blind people can access audio description for the film via the Kino Dostępne app.
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Main Competition
See the programme sectionThere are 16 films in the Main Competition at the 51st Polish Film Festival in Gdynia. Among them are five feature-length directing debuts.
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Main Competition AwardedEXOTICdir. Sonja Orlewicz-Zakrzewska95’ / 2026 -
Main Competition AwardedLiquid Statesdir. Maria Wider85’ / 2026 -
Main Competition AwardedHot Spotdir. Agnieszka Smoczyńska100’ / 2026 -
Main Competition AwardedA Free Womandir. Eliza Godlewska, Alan Ruczyński80’ / 2026 -
Main Competition AwardedLess of a Strangerdir. Kristoffer Rus125’ / 2026 -
Main Competition AwardedOur Revolutiondir. Piotr Domalewski125’ / 2026 -
Main Competition AwardedFatherlanddir. Paweł Pawlikowski82’ / 2026 -
Main CompetitionGorky Resortdir. Łukasz Palkowski113’ / 2026 -
Main Competition AwardedTell Me What You Feeldir. Łukasz Ronduda102’ / 2026 -
Main Competition AwardedThrough the Walldir. Maciej Sobieszczański120’ / 2026 -
Main CompetitionPicasso's Mermaiddir. Janusz Zaorski95’ / 2026 -
Main Competition AwardedVioletta Villasdir. Karolina Bielawska126’ / 2026 -
Main CompetitionWinter of the Crowdir. Kasia Adamik112’ / 2025