Young, beautiful, well-off, ambitious, yet not very happy, searching and suffering. In Silent Land Woszczyńska returns to those two. However, the title silence has nothing idyllic in it, despite the fact the action takes place during holidays, on an Italian island, where they rent a house with a view. Full fridge, full wallets, alarm-secured door and equally tightly closed eyes guarantee protection from contact with reality. This sterile peace is ruined by a swimming pool problem. It seems minor, yet it causes imbalance that brings chaos, fear and … death. A young Arab comes to fix the pool. The Polish married couple look down on him, the presence of an immigrant disgusts them. When a tragic accident happens, their reaction is the essence of egoism.

Cicha ziemia / Silent Land

Directed by: Aga Woszczyńska
Cast: Dobromir Dymecki, Agnieszka Żulewska, Jean-Marc Barr, Alma Jodorowsky
Country: Polska, Czechy, Włochy
Year: 2021
Running time: 113 min.

WHERE / WHEN

25th November (Saturday) - 4 PM
Małopolska Garden of Arts - Small Screening Room

Agnieszka Woszczyńska

Born in 1984. She is a director, screenwriter and anthropologist. She graduated from the Applied Social Sciences Department at the University of Warsaw (2008) and the Directing Department at the Łódź Film School (2014). For many years she worked as a production manager and second director in Poland and abroad.

Her diploma film "Fragments" (”Fragmenty”) premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in the Directors' Fortnight section in 2014 as the only Polish feature film that year.

Her feature debut "Silent Earth" (”Cicha Ziemia”), made as an Italian-Polish-Czech co-production, had its world premiere in 2021 at the Toronto International Film Festival in The Platform competition section, as the only Polish film in the history of this section. The film was enthusiastically received by foreign critics and was distributed in 6 countries, and was also the opening film of the New Horizons Festival in 2022. Woszczyńska’s films have been presented at over 150 film festivals and won numerous awards including, among others, Fipresci

Aga is a scholarship holder of the Minister of Culture, a laureate of Trójka Talents and has twice received the Discovering Eye Award for The Most Interesting Emerging Artist in the USA. Woszczyńska is currently working on her second, this time, Scandinavian film titled "Black Water".