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Where are You My Love?

WOMAN OF...
KOBIETA Z...

• Director: Malgorzata Szumowska, Michal Englert
• POLAND, SWEDEN / 2023 / DCP / Colour / 126’ / Polish; Turkish, English s.t.

• Screenplay: Malgorzata Szumowska, Michal Englert
• Director of Photography: Michal Englert
• Editing: Jaroslaw Kamiński
• Music: Jimek
• Cast: Malgorzata Hajewska-Krzysztofik, Joanna Kulig, Bogumila Bajor, Mateusz Wieclawek
• Producer: Klaudia Smieja- Rostworowska, Bogna Szewczyk-Skupień, Katarzyna Jordan-Kulczyk, Gregory Jakilevitsch, Malgorzata Szumowska, Michal Englert
• Production Co.: Nomad Films, Plio, Film i Väst, Common Ground Pictures
• World Sales: Memento International

Often taking interest in matters of body, transformation, and societal conflict, Polish directors Malgorzata Szumowska and Michal Englert in their most recent film tell the story of the transformation of an individual set against the landscape of the Polish transformation from communism to capitalism. Selected to compete for the Golden Lion at the Venice International Film Festival, Woman of... spans the life of Aniela Wesoly, who lived more than half of her adult life in a provincial Polish town as a man. Aniela’s journey to find personal liberty as a trans woman reveals hardships in marriage and parenthood, strained family relations and complicated attitudes in her environment, which constantly place her in impossible situations. What choices will Aniela have to make? Will she be ready to sacrifice all to become who she truly is? According to The Hollywood Reporter ‘as much as an individual character study, the real strength of A Woman of... is as an unconventional love story.’

This film is screened with the kind contribution of the Consulate General of Poland.

This film was a Meetings on the Bridge participant.