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Film short abstract

Could any good come from a time of solitude? A radically diverse group of individuals, connecting only through computer screens, open up to share their pandemic and existential loneliness. The long-term project turns traumas into an invaluable life lesson of courage - also for the director himself.

Film synopsis

Could any good come from a time of enforced solitude? A radically diverse group of individuals, connecting only through computer screens, open up to share their pandemic and existential loneliness. The film follows them sharing the hopes and fears they experienced during the pandemic isolations and in years to follow. The long-term project, inspired by the films of Jean Rouch ("Chronicle of a summer") and Krzysztof Kieślowski ("Talking Heads"), turns traumas into an invaluable life lesson of courage - also for the director himself. As inspired by self-reflexive anthropology, the film addresses the process of filmmaking itself and involves the director as one of its characters. Due to the conditions of quarantine, the film was made only through online recording, supplemented with some cell phones, thus it explores the intricacies of building intimate connections between strangers despite the physical distance and digital means of communication. Even the greatest fear cannot overcome us if we know how to be together.

Awards:

64th Krakow Film Festival, 2024: The Maciej Szumowski Award for Remarkable Social Awareness, the justification reads: "The film has an extraordinary sense of historical timing and sensitivity in portraying the protagonists in a situation of collective danger, whose result is an exceptionally modern and – simultaneously – universal story about every one of us."