Janusz is a weary coroner who faces the strangest forms of death every day. His daughter Olga is deeply unhappy and bulimic and Anna, her therapist, uses all kinds of alternative therapeutic methods, including communicating with the dead.
These are the are the superbly acted characters whose stories and viewpoints director-producer
Malgozarta Szumowska subtly intertwines, bringing great lightness, tenderness and a great sense of the absurd to this black humoured, yet sympathetic reflection on mourning and loss set in contemporary Warsaw.
After the screening director-producer
Malgozarta Szumowska will be in conversation with producer
Rebecca O’Brien.
Poland 2015, colour, 90mins.
Directed by Malgorzata Szumowska.
In collaboration with, and organised by EUNIC London and the Goethe-Institut London.
In association with the London Film School. Supported by the Polish Cultural Institute.
Malgozarta Szumowska Biography
One of Poland’s most prominent filmmakers, Malgorzata Szumowska works in feature and documentary film, usually taking the roles of writer, director and producer.
Her films have received many prestigious awards including the Silver Leopard for 33 Scenes From Life (33 sceny z życia) at the Locarno Film Festival in 2008, the Silver Bear for Best Director at the Berlin Film Festival and a nomination for best director at the at the European Films Awards for the film Body (Ciało) in 2015.
Rebecca O’Brien Biography
Rebecca O’Brien has been an independent film producer for thirty years. She has produced seventeen feature films directed by Ken Loach, including Land and Freedom, Sweet Sixteen, Looking for Eric and The Angels' Share. Both The Wind that shakes the Barley (2006) and I, Daniel Blake (2016) won the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival. Her other producing credits include Bean, directed by Mel Smith, Princesa directed by Henrique Goldman and City of tiny Lights directed by Pete Travis.
O’Brien is currently on the boards of the European Film Academy and PACT and is a member of the British Screen Advisory Council. She runs the production company Sixteen Films with Ken Loach and screenwriter Paul Laverty.
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