FEATURE
author/director: Filip Antoni Malinowski
co-author: Jürgen Karasek
100, Austria/Germany/Poland
status: pre-production, budget: 1.5 mio
a co-production with ELEMAG PICTURES (Germany) & METRO FILMS (Poland)
JULIA (30) is a lifeguard at an outdoor swimming pool in Poland. She is a woman of traditional values who hopes to find her place in society by marrying her boyfriend MAREK (32). When Marek unexpectedly breaks up with her, Julia’s world falls apart. She soon finds a chance to revenge and a new direction in life by joining Marek‘s patriotic militia, quickly rising to a leader in the group. But the gap between its members’ behavior and her own moral values becomes increasingly difficult to reconcile…
dramaturgy: Barbara Albert, Michał Oleszczyk
funded by:
Creative Europe
Austrian Chancellery of Art (development & production)
ZDF Kleines Fernsehspiel / ARTE (development & production)
German-Polish Co-Development Fund
Robert Bosch Stiftung / Literarisches Colloquium Berlin
Drehbuchforum Vienna – Scriptlab scolarship
pitched at dokfest München Marketplace 2019, New Horizons Studio+ Wrocław
developed at EKRAN+ Andrzej Wajda School Warsaw
nominated for “Best Screenplay” at Sehsüchte FF 2021
