POLISH FILM SECURES SPOT AT SUNDANCE FESTIVAL
Damian Kosowski's short fiction film People & Things has been invited to the International Short Film Competition at the Sundance Film Festival.
The Sundance Film Festival, the largest annual independent film festival in the United States, has been a fixture in Park City, Salt Lake City, and the Sundance ski resort in Utah since 1978. The upcoming edition will be held from 19th to 29th January next year.
People & Things is set in the near future in post-war Ukraine. It follows 34-year-old Olena (Oksana Cherkashyna), who, like many Ukrainian women, is desperately searching for loved ones who vanished during the conflict. Upon receiving news about her husband, the father of her eight-year-old daughter Kira (Kira Makidon), Olena embarks on a journey with Kira and her current partner Tymur (Stanislav Voitsekhovskyi) to an abandoned Culture and Sports Centre in eastern Ukraine.
At this site, exhumation work is being conducted under the vigilant supervision of Dr Ewa (Grażyna Misiorowska), a Polish anthropologist. What was intended to be a mere formality triggers a flood of unfamiliar emotions for Olena. The confirmation of her husband's remains and the stark reality of the exhumed bodies – victims of Russian aggression – force her to confront a difficult choice between her present life and a world that has ceased to exist.
You can find out more about the festival and browse the complete list of selected films here.