Warsaw

Running time: 100 mins

Winner ? Grand Prix, Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Supporting Female, Best Editing from the Gdynia Polish Film Festival

It?s winter and five complete strangers have found their way to Warsaw. Despite its crippling temperature, Warsaw bustles with close to two million people, but today only the lives of these five people matter. Each is looking for something different but will find more than each bargained for before the day is finished.

Klara just left her boyfriend and is looking to start over when she meets Pawel, an orphan searching for work. Jan is desperately looking for his daughter, and Wiktonia finds a little adventure when she hitches a ride with Andrzej, a clean-cut bachelor of few words. A near tragedy, a car accident, causes their lives to intersect for a brief moment before they once again go off on their separate ways.

Inspired by director Dariusz Gajewski?s own experience in this magical metropolis, Warsaw is a touching film about the duality of the big city. Beauty and hardship take center stage as a city continues to heal after its tumultuous past.

Brian Nicholas

Screening with:
Threshold; dir. Jeremy Nichols; 4min/35mm/United States ? A modern melodrama about a girl, a promise and a fast moving train.

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