Jamaica

The protagonists of this comedy-drama are members of a three-generation intelligentsia family. Lena, a school headmistress, is organising a party to celebrate her father’s seventieth birthday. Only the closest members of the family are supposed to be present, but to everyone’s surprise, the father invites someone he wants to introduce to the household. A suddenly revealed secret he kept for sixteen years will radically change the course of the festive gathering. In recounting the events of this fateful evening, the director uses the convention of the ‘home video’ often shot on similar occasions. Besides perfunctory and banal birthday wishes, the camera captures the characters in situations not intended for family archives, peeping in and immortalising their reactions and conversations that should never come to light.

written by: Malwina Chojnacka
director of photography: Maciej Kochajewski
music: Olgierd Walicki
production design: Agata Adamus
costume design: Zofia Bebej
make-up: Milena Jura, Justyna Koczara
sound: Leszek Freud, Aleksander Musiałowski
edited by: Miłosz Janiec
cast: Katarzyna Kwiatkowska, Tomasz Sapryk, Marcin Troński, Wojciech Żołądkowicz, Diana Zamojska, Rafał Kowalski, Wojciech Machnicki
production: Wytwórnia Filmów Dokumentalnych i Fabularnych
producer: Zbigniew Domagalski
production manager: Paweł Mantorski