The Mandala

Łucja tries to restore her son's health and wash away her guilt for the events of the past. The harder she tries, the thinner the lines between motherhood and violence, reality and nightmare become.
2023 |

written and directed by Mikołaj Janik

cinematography: Norbert Wojtysiak

music: Michał Drabczyk

sound: Piotr Pastuszak

editing: Monika Stachowicz

production design: Tatsiana Tsimafeichyk, Michał Kieranowski, Jakub Machoj

costumes: Weronika Gajewska

make-up: Ida Cylwik, Oliwia Pawłowska

casting: Mikolaj Janik

 

cast: Magdalena Czerwińska (Łucja), Aleks Kurdzielewicz (Wiktor), Piotr Polak (Bartek)

 

producer: Leszek Kopeć, Jerzy Rados

co-produced by: Zbigniew Domagalski, WFDiF

 

produced by:         Gdynia Film School

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  • “Mom Is Going Back” Awarded at the 23rd Uhvati Film Festival in Serbia and Croatia

  • Mikołaj Janik’s “Mom Is Going Back” got two awards at the 23rd Uhvati Film Festival: Grand Prix at the Novi Sad edition, and Second Prize for Documentary Film in Rijeka, Croatia. Organized in the region of Southern Europe (Novi Sad in Serbia, Rijeka in Croatia, and Kotor in Montenegro) in October and November, the festival features fiction and documentary films presenting themes of disability.

  • “Nothing Serious” and “Such a Perfect Day” in Competition of the 18th Amarcort Film Festival in Italy!

  • “Nothing Serious” by Kamil Czudej and “Such a Perfect Day” by Piotr Pluta will be presented in various competitive sections of the forthcoming 18th Amarcort Film Festival in Rimini, Federico Fellini’s birthplace. The festival held between November 25th – 30th, will show “Nothing Serious” in the Student Films category, while “Such a Perfect Day” – in the Titta category dedicated to films on parent-child relationship.

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