SOAP OPERA, Anja Zalewska.
Film screening: Shorts by Lodz Film School students (PL, ENG, 91’)
A selection of the latest student films from the Polish National Film School in Lodz.
COME COME MY LITTLE LAMB, dir. Kinga Garncarz, 2025, 5’
Zosia doesn’t dance with the boys. In a world stitched from village rules, she searches for herself – though there’s no space or time for that. An animated reimagining of “Forefathers’ Eve” from a female perspective.
Director, Screenplay, Animation: Kinga Garncarz
Editing: Cecylia Pacura
Sound: Wiktor Szymurski
Production Manager: Maja Faltyn
Artistic Supervisors: Aleksandra Chrapowicka, Joanna Jasińska-Koronkiewicz
DYING OF THE YOUNG DEER, dir. Angelika Cygal, 2025, 15’
Across the morning landscape drifts the sound of an axe. White ribbons that only yesterday danced in the wind now stand still in silence. Helka, yesterday’s bride, bids farewell to her family home and walks through the village toward her husband’s house. She carries a quilt filled with goose feathers once plucked by her mother. On her journey into adulthood, the music of the rural world becomes Helka’s sole companion.
Direction, Screenplay: Angelika Cygal
Cinematography: Szczepan Lewandowski
Editing: Michael Stoklosa
Sound: Artur Walaszczyk
Production Management: Alicja Krajewska
Executive Producer: Nikodem Cofała
Artistic Supervision: Łukasz Barczyk, Andrzej Musiał, Piotr Śliskowski, Roman Kałuża
Cast: Helena Rząsa, Ewa Cygal, Zdzisław Cygal
DREAM UP THE TITLE, dir. Klaudia Fortuniak, 2025, 20’
Neurodiverse Małgorzata tries to find her place in the neurotypical world. She can’t fall asleep, she must awake first. Being deceived in her dream about an hour, she is late for the trip in search of Lodz’s hidden rivers. She finds the rivers in the end, but the dream is gone.
Director, screenplay: Klaudia Fortuniak
DP: Mateusz Nowak
Editing: Piotr Pohl
Sound: Tomasz Andrzejewski
Production manager: Kamila Wysocka
Executive producer: Korek Bojanowski
Artistic supervisor: Jan Komasa
Cast: Izabella Dudziak, Mateusz Górski, Piotr Seweryński
YELLOW IS THE LAST COLOR, dir. Agata Majcherowicz, 2025, 14’
A story of love in a world that cannot be seen.
Director, screenplay: Agata Majcherowicz
DPs: Bartosz Błędowski, Desi Kunsa
Editing: Jakub Bastkowski
Sound: Rafał Nowak
Production manager: Filip Pakuła
Artistic supervisors: Maciej Drygas, Jacek Petrycki, Marta Prus, Rafał Listopad, Bartosz Pietras
Cast: Martyna Radomska, Bartosz Radomski
SOAP OPERA, dir. Anja Zalewska, 2025, 16’
Two sisters were left with a family herring-tage: a fish shop. The older one, Gerda, labours over the ofishial opening, while the younger one, Gaja, flounders.
Director: Anja Zalewska
Screenplay: Aleksandra Głowicka, Anja Zalewska
DP: Zofia Połaniewicz
Editing: Maciej Woźniak
Sound: Rafał Nowak, Lana Skachkova
Production manager: Aleksandra Raszka
Artistic supervisors: Leszek Dawid, Jakub Piątek
Cast: Aleksandra Wierzbicka, Anja Zalewska, Antoni Włosowicz
BAR CROQUETTE FREESTYLE, dir. Maria Dakszewicz, 2025, 5’
After watching a Bollywood film, a woman yearning for excitement begins to question the storyline of her own life.
Director, screenplay, animation, editing: Maria Dakszewicz
Sound: Maria Dakszewicz, Jakub Krzyszpin
Production manager: Izabela Pszczółka
Artistic supervisors: Aleksandra Chrapowicka, Joanna Jasińska-Koronkiewicz
Cast (voice): Milena Lisiecka, Jakub Kondrat
HOW TO FALL OUT OF LOVE, dir. Varvara Zarytska, 2025, 16’
Agata has just gone through a painful breakup and, digging through the dusty corners of her memory and video archives, she desperately tries to piece together the reasons for her romantic failure. If our memory is a creation, then what is film?
