A poetic conversation between a young girl and her deceased great-grandfather. Images from a German town where the great-grandfather was sent to a work camp during the II World War intertwine with a delicate narrative in which the girl writes a letter. The past mixes with the present, and flashes of memory with oblivion. The addressee of the letter, Leo Sokolosky, is the ghost of her great-grandfather’s friend from the camp who, in the girl’s mind, is a mystical link between her world and the one of her great-grandfather. The film is a search for answers to questions about ideals in today’s world and an expression of longing for someone close to you who is no longer around.
AWARDS
2025 The Ecumenical Jury Award at the 71st International Short Film Festival Oberhausen
FESTIVALS
2025 The 71st International Short Film Festival Oberhausen (world premiere)
2025 Kraków Film Festival (Polish premiere)
2025 ANIMATOR Festival Poznań
2025 New Horizons, Wrocław
2025 Freedom Film Festival, Radom
2025 Animest, Romania
2025 HER Docs, Warsaw
2025 Tramway Film Festval, Warsaw
The project took part in Animated in Poland pitching session during 64. Kraków Film Festival.
photo: Tomasz Korczyński
photo: Tomasz Korczyński
poster by karla szyma
World premiere of the film at the Internationale Short Film Festival Oberhausen. The journey to Oberhausen was made possible thanks to Adam Mickiewicz Institute as part of the ‘Kultura Polska na Świecie’ programme, co financed by the Minister of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland.