Documentary.pl Competition set 1

Screening schedule:
DAD YOU’VE NEVER HAD dir. Dominika Łapka, Poland 2020, 30′
ZEPSUTA GŁOWA/BROKEN HEAD dir. Maciej Jankowski, Poland 2019, 42′
TROCHĘ RAJU/A LITTLE BIT OF PARADISE dir. Andrzej Cichocki, Poland 2020, 19′

DAD YOU’VE NEVER HAD
director: Dominika Łapka
director of photography: Weronika Bilska
music: Tomasz Gąssowski
Poland 2020, 30′

The story of a daughter’s complicated relationship with her father. The daughter sets off on a journey to visit her father who once rejected her. The father lets the girl into his apartment, tries to answer her questions, and they focus on the letters they have written to each other over the years. The daughter clears up and tidies up her father’s world and her relationship with him. There is an uneasy confrontation between the protagonists.

TROCHĘ RAJU
A LITTLE BIT OF PARADISE
director: Andrzej Cichocki
director of photography: Andrzej Cichocki
music: Paweł Górniak
Poland 2020, 19′

A documentary story from the borderlands of realism and fairy tale, “A Little Bit of Paradise” is a film about a Silesian family. In an out-of-the-way corner of a metropolis, they reveal their world to the watcher and share moments from their lives, which are inextricably bound up with the nature around them.

ZEPSUTA GŁOWA
BROKEN HEAD
director: Maciej Jankowski
director of photography: Maciej Jankowski
Poland 2019, 42′

Andrzej has serious problems with drugs. He is locked in prison, at special unit for old offenders. In order to fight for relationship with his girlfriend, he decides to start therapy. During this journey, he discovers his own emotions, and realizes, existence of the different layers of his own internal life. A fight for a girlfriend, becomes also fight for himself. Will he succeed in this struggle?