Clarinet

‘To know where your heart is headed, you need to know where it set out from. So you don’t lose your way.’
In the north-eastern corner of Poland, on the lakeshore there stands a women’s house – a house of mothers, daughters and sisters. From generation to generation the women pass down their unapproachability, steadfastness and family secrets. 20-year-old Łucja will be able to begin her independent life only after she has faced the truth about her family. An unexpected meeting with a mysterious Doctor starts an avalanche of events. An old clarinet will guide her to a story long ago erased from the pages of her family album. For Łucja to be able to hear the melody of her own life every veil must be torn down and every wrongdoing – forgiven. All that against the backdrop of wild glacial landscapes of the Suwałki Gap and the Klezmer Orchestra from Sejny whose music bridges the past and the present.

The film is the director’s feature-length debut.

written by: Tola Jasionowska 
director of photography: Piotr Pawlus
music: Wojciech Frycz 
production design: Joanna Załęska
costume design: Katarzyna Antonik 
make-up: Daniela Radkiewicz
sound: Bartosz Putkiewicz 
edited by: Łukasz Olszewski
casting by: Tola Jasionowska
cast: Weronika Humaj, Andrzej Chyra, Ewelina Żak, Karolina Porcari, Maciej Cymorek, Małgorzata Lewińska
production: Evolutionary Picture
producers: Adrian Skwiercz, Joanna Jankowska-Flis 
production manager: Adrian Skwiercz 
co-financed by: Polski Instytut Sztuki Filmowej