MY FRIEND THE POLISH GIRL

By Ewa BANASZKIEWICZ, Mateusz DYMEK

LEOPART - as DISTR Theatrical, TV, DVD-video, VOD, Airline, RUSSIA

Erotic - Completed 2018


Festivals
& Awards

Rotterdam IFF 2018
Bright Future
Edinburgh IFF 2018
Best of British
New Horizons IFF 2018
International Competition
    • Year of production
    • 2018
    • Genres
    • Erotic, Drama
    • Countries
    • POLAND, UNITED KINGDOM
    • Languages
    • ENGLISH
    • Budget
    • 0 - 0.3 M$
    • Duration
    • 87 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Ewa BANASZKIEWICZ, Mateusz DYMEK
    • Writer(s)
    • Ewa BANASZKIEWICZ, Mateusz DYMEK
    • Producer(s)
    • Ewa BANASZKIEWICZ (Warsaw Pact Films), Mateusz DYMEK (Warsaw Pact Films)
    • Synopsis
    • “The Power and Control Over Intimacy”
      From Cannes and Telluride nominee Ewa Banaszkiewicz and Mateusz Dymek comes a fiction film that takes the form of a first-time filmmaker’s documentary.
      MY FRIEND THE POLISH GIRL borrows from cinema verite and video bloggers to create a rare naturalism in style and performance. The fiction film watches as an experimental documentary told through the eyes (and lens) of amateur filmmaker Katie: an American rich kidfollowing Alicja, an erratic unemployed Polish actress. Set in a post-Brexit-vote London, Katie’s colonising, disruptive presence in Alicja’s life mirrors the treatment of migrants in the UK: Welcomed, used, then discarded. A raw, sexual, and visually brash film exploring the abusive power and control over someone’s intimacy.