The Crooked Heads
Poland2025animated8'Konkurs polski (2025)
In this Polish residential district, drawn with a black line, rough and heavy with smoke coming out of the chimneys, which consumes everything like a black hole. A young boy, trying to understand his brother and come to terms with his absence, enters the brutal reality of the neighbourhood. An animation about growing up in the world of violence, silence and an unresolved past. Details, greyness and a stifling atmosphere create the terrifying portrait of everyday life, full of aggression, unpaid debts and unsettled scores.
- directed by
- Jakub Krzyszpin
Film director and student of the Animation and Special Effects programme at the Łódź Film School. He creates films whose visual style is characterised by a tremulous, expressive line. His films have been screened at international festivals, including Annecy, the Krakow Film Festival, Tirana IFF, Animafest Zagreb and Go Short Nijmegen. His latest film, “Axles”, has been selected for the La Cinef section of the 79th Cannes Film Festival.
- Producer
- Agata Golańska / Państwowa Wyższa Szkoła Filmowa, Telewizyjna i Teatralna im. L.Schillera w Łodzi (Państwowa Wyższa Szkoła Filmowa, Telewizyjna i Teatralna im. L.Schillera w Łodzi)
- Sound
- Jakub Krzyszpin
- Screenplay
- Jakub Krzyszpin
- Animation
- Jakub Krzyszpin
- Music
- Maria Dakszewicz
- Editing
- Jakub Krzyszpin
- Cast
- Krystian Kanclerz, Artur Kujawa, Dorian Zypper, Maria Dakszewicz, Jakub Krzyszpin
- Photo
- Trailer

