Screenings
Internetowa edycja 64. KFF
The Power of Resistance
Poland2024fiction30'National Competition
Olga’s political idealism and hopes for a better future are put to the hardest of tests. The authoritarian, omniscient communist authorities are determined to break down the actress when her father is in hospital fighting for his life, while her husband is in prison. Olga needs to find herself in a new situation and make an impossible choice. Every hour of delay may bring disastrous consequences. The film, set in the 1980s, includes both a social and historical streak. The authors were very attentive to detail designing the sets and costumes and the script includes questions worthy of the cinema of moral unrest. Olga herself is as resolute as Agnieszka, the protagonist of ‘Man of Marble’ by Andrzej Wajda. Does an individual have any chance to protect his or her loved ones and preserve dignity in the confrontation with the giant machine of power?
- directed by
- Elżbieta BenkowskaQ&A guest
Director and screenwriter. For her diploma film 'Olena', made at the Gdynia Film School, she received many awards, including a nomination for the Golden Palm in the short film competition at the 66th Cannes International Film Festival. She went on to direct the first part of the film triptych 'Nowy świat' produced by Akson Studio. She is currently working on her feature-length debut entitled 'Orunia 4ever', for which she has already received the Script Pro Special Award. She is the president of the Youth Circle of the Association of Polish Filmmakers.
- cinematography
- Maciej Edelman
- script
- Tomasz Stochniał, Elżbieta Benkowska
- cast
- Lena Góra, Tamara Arciuch, Andrzej Mastalerz, Cezary Żak, Krzysztof Wach, Łukasz Rochna, Mateusz Rusin, Adrianna Kalska, Jakub Zając, Sylwia Achu, Adrian Brząkała, Tomasz Stochniał
- music
- Marcin Krzyżanowski
- sound
- Marcin Popławski, Jacek Hamela
- editing
- Irena Banat
- production
- Ewa Jastrzębska, Jerzy Kapuściński (Munk Studio - Polish Filmmakers Association)
- Photo
