Mom is coming back

Is it possible to travel in place? Is it possible to replace Himalayan expanses with Beskid hills? Ever since Wiktoria - who suffers from infantile cerebral palsy - was born, her mother Veronika has been grappling with these questions, trying to find her old passions in her new life with her daughter.
2023 |

Written and directed by Mikołaj Janik

Photography: Mikołaj Janik, Janusz Gawron

Music: Michal Drabczyk,

Sound: Piotr Pastuszak

Editing: Irena Banat, Mikołaj Janik, Monika Chyżyńska

 

Producer: Leszek Kopeć, Jerzy Rados

Production: Gdynia Film School

  • “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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