Eden

In the European Union borderland, seventeen-year-old Mila vegetates in the shadow of her smuggling family. Numbers of contraband cigarettes and bottles of vodka measure her existence. Tired of her walking-dead life, she wants to end it. Far from everyone, Mila tries to gas herself to death in a car deep in the woods. Things get complicated when her passage to a better world is brought to a halt by a Syrian refugee. Unlike her, the young, resilient man won’t give up on life without a fight.

The film is a directing debut.

written by: Marta Szymanek
director of photography: Konrad Bloch
music: Jan Ignacy Królikowski
production design: Maciej Strzałkowski-Rajca, Stefania Strzałkowska-Rajca
costume design: Zofia Jocek, Magdalena Słowik
make up: Izabela Rygalska, Weronika Zielińska, Alicja Zielińska
sound: Piotr Pastuszak
edited by: Mariusz Goss
casting by: Malwina Górecka, Marta Szymanek
cast: Natalia Jędruś, Nadim Suleiman, Joanna Gonschorek, Paweł Dobek
production: Warszawska Szkoła Filmowa
producer: Maciej Ślesicki
co-produced by: House Media, FilmProdukcja
executive producer: Warszawska Szkoła Filmowa
production manager: Paola Kadyszewska
co-financed by: Polski Instytut Sztuki Filmowej
distributed by: Warszawska Szkoła Filmowa