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Wieża. Jasny dzień.

Tower. A Bright Day.
Forum 2018
It’s early summer and nature is aglow, full of lush greens. Mula’s daughter Nina is about to celebrate her First Communion, and relatives are arriving for the occasion. Among them is Mula’s sister Kaja, Nina’s biological mother, who somehow hasn’t been around the last six years. Her return triggers Mula’s anxieties, and she eyes every interaction between Kaja and Nina with distrust. The camera moves nimbly, like another family member caught up in this relationship drama set in a stylish country home. Small tremors repeatedly ripple through the film, like subtle seismic waves foretelling the bigger quake to come: on the soundtrack, in the abrupt, flash-like cuts and in all the strange occurrences. Could the grandmother’s sudden recovery, the stammering priest who forgets the words of his prayer or the noises coming from the wall be harbingers of something? Everyone is too preoccupied to notice. An intertitle talks of events from the future; one where everything is still as it always was but will soon change. Do the subtle genre elements that seep into this summer idyll simply blur the line between relationship drama and psycho thriller, or might Kaja be on another mission entirely?
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by Jagoda Szelc
with Anna Krotoska, Małgorzata Szczerbowska, Rafał Cieluch, Rafał Kwietniewski, Dorota Łukasiewicz-Kwietniewska, Laila Hennessy, Anna Zubrzycki, Ida Kwietniewska, Igor Kwietniewski, Artur Krajewski Poland 2017 Polish 106’ Colour

With

  • Anna Krotoska (Mula)
  • Małgorzata Szczerbowska (Kaja)
  • Rafał Cieluch (Michał)
  • Rafał Kwietniewski (Andrzej)
  • Dorota Łukasiewicz-Kwietniewska (Anna)
  • Laila Hennessy (Nina)
  • Anna Zubrzycki (Ada)
  • Ida Kwietniewska (Dusia)
  • Igor Kwietniewski (Igor)
  • Artur Krajewski (Priest)

Crew

Written and Directed by Jagoda Szelc
Cinematography Przemysław Brynkiewicz
Editing Anna Garncarczyk
Music Teoniki Rożynek
Sound Design Kacper Habisiak
Sound Rafał Nowak
Production Design Natalia Giza
Producers Marcin Malatyński Indeks Film Studio, Agata Golanska Szkoła Filmowa w Łodzi (PWSFTviT, Agnieszka Janowska Centrala, Kacper Habisiak Dreamsound, Andrzej Jędrzejewski Heliograf, Maciej Ostoja-Chyżyński EBH, Rafał Bubnicki Odra Film

Produced by

Indeks Film Studio

http://www.studioindeks.pl http://www.studioindeks.pl

The Polish National Film, Television and Theatre School

http://www.filmschool.lodz.pl http://www.filmschool.lodz.pl

Centrala

http://www.centralafilm.pl http://www.centralafilm.pl

Dreamsound

http://dreamsound.pl http://dreamsound.pl

Heliograf

http://heliograf.pl http://heliograf.pl

EBH

http://www.ebh.pl http://www.ebh.pl

Odra Film

http://odra-film.wroc.pl http://odra-film.wroc.pl

Photos

Jagoda Szelc

© Sonia Szóstak

Born in Wroclaw, Poland in 1984. She studied at the Faculty of Graphic Arts and Media Art of the Academy of Art and Design in Wrocław. From 2009 to 2015, she studied in the Directing Department at the Film School in Lodz. Wieża. Jasny dzień. is her first feature film.

Filmography

2011 Kichot; 15 min. · I nigdy nie wracaj (And never come back); 9 min. 2012 Punkt wyjścia (Exit Point); 17 min. · Aposiopesis; 6 min. 2013 Taki pejzaż (Such a Landscape); 23 min. 2015 Spacer (A Short Walk); 15 min. 2017 Wieża. Jasny dzień. (Tower. A Bright Day.)

Bio- & filmography as of Berlinale 2018