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PL 2025, 90 mins, original version with German and English subtitles, Dir: Emi Buchwald / Screenplay: Emi Buchwald, Karol Marczak / Cinematography: Tomasz Gajewski / Editing: Anna Łuka / Music: Katarzyna Gawlik, Jerzy Rogiewicz Cast: Bartłomiej Deklewa, Izabella Dudziak, Tymoteusz Rożynek, Karolina Rzepa, Piotr Napierała, Daria Muszyńska, Andrzej Kłak, Gabriela Arak, Aleksander Janiszewski, Krzysztof Drozdowski and others.
The camera slowly pans through furnished rooms; sounds from a distant past can be heard; the flat in the old building appears to be empty. Yet there is someone sitting on the windowsill – it is a nightmare, a mythical figure that sits on people’s chests at night and squeezes the life out of them.
The four very different siblings clearly sense the presence of this nightmare. The flat belongs to them, although only one of them still lives there. But it is not figments of the imagination that are suffocating them, but very real worries that plague young people searching for their place in life in a big city like Warsaw – toxic relationships, panic attacks, fear of commitment. With refreshing nonchalance and a level of dramatic maturity astonishing for a debut, Emi Buchwald has her finger on the pulse of a generation in which everyone is battling their own demons. Perhaps this battle can only be won in one way – as a group, or better still: as a family. The sense of everyday reality, which is also reflected in the language typical of Gen Z, the blend of tragedy and comedy, and a subtly applied dose of metaphysics come across to German audiences as a successful mix of AKIZ’s Der Nachtmahr and Dietrich Brüggemann’s 3 Zimmer/Küche/Bad. [Rainer Mende]
16 September / 8.00 pm / fsk Kino / Special guest: Emi Buchwald
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