ILLUSION
Written & directed: Marta Minorowicz
Production: IKH Pictures Production, Poland 2022
Runtime: 90 min.
The Polish cinema premiere: 2022
The festival premiere: The Main Competition of the Gdynia Film Festival 2022
Many months after her disappearance, the mother of a missing daughter starts her own increasingly irrational investigation. At times she plays with reality, at others – she questions it. These experiences strengthen her observation skills, which eventually leads her to be able to perceive a miracle beyond boundaries. A film about the power of human spirit, about searching for reconcilement and harmony against tragic circumstances. The film is the director’s full-length feature debut.
CREDITS
Directed by: Marta Minorowicz
Written by: Piotr Borkowski, Marta Minorowicz
Director of photograpgy: Paweł Chorzępa
Music: Jerzy Rogiewicz
Production design: Katarzyna Sikora, Dominika Kobylińska
Costume design: Katarzyna Piątek
Make-up: Agnieszka Wałęga, Ewa Klepacka
Sound: Agata Chodyra
Edited by: Leszek Starzyński
Casting by: Julia Popkiewicz, Marta Minorowicz
CAST
Agata Buzek,
Marcin Czarnik,
Małgorzata Hajewska-Krzysztofik,
Sandra Drzymalska,
Karol Bernacki
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DIRECTOR'S BIO
Director and cinematographer. A graduate of Cinematography and Photography at Krzysztof Kieslowski’s Film School in Katowice and a PhD student at the Łódź Film School. He is the author of internationally awarded short films. His last film „Beyond Is the Day” won, among others, Award for Best Short Film at the International Film Festival in Trieste, Tehran, best European film at Clermont-Ferrand and was qualified for a European Film Award Nomination. The film was shown at the New Directors / New Films review at MOMA in New York in 2021. As a filmmaker, he follows the credibility of emotions on the screen and considers the authenticity of the presented characters and their stories as the most important goal.
