Jak najdalej stąd
I Never Cry
Ola is a 17-year-old from Poland whose top priority in life is passing
her driving test and getting a car. However, when her father suddenly dies while working on a construction site in Ireland,
she must reluctantly travel to bring his body home — although her main incentive is to retrieve the money he’d promised her
towards a car. A dark comedy of teenage rationale and angst, in which Ola’s journey into adulthood is set against the effects
of mass economic emigration.“I don’t really pick a subject or a story; I focus on a theme. And in this case, it was the theme
of looking for a lost bond with an estranged parent.“ (Cambridge Film Festival)
Films - Selection
Jak Najdalej Stąd (I Never Cry, 2020) - Cicha noc (Silent Night, 2017) - 60 kilo niczego (60 Kilos of Nothing, 2017, short) - Obcy (Stranger, 2013, short)
Jak Najdalej Stąd (I Never Cry, 2020) - Cicha noc (Silent Night, 2017) - 60 kilo niczego (60 Kilos of Nothing, 2017, short) - Obcy (Stranger, 2013, short)
YAAAS! Competition 2021
Piotr Domalewski
Poland / Ireland
2020
color
97 minutes
English / Polish
OV with English subtitles
Screenplay Piotr Domalewski
Cinematography Piotr Sobociński Jr
Editing Agnieszka Glińska
Sound/Sounddesign
Sebastian Kordasz, Kacper Habisiak, Marcin Kasiński
Music
Hania Rani
With Zofia Stafiej, Kinga Preis, Arkadiusz
Jakubik, Dawid Tulej, Cosmina Stratan
Producer(s)
Jan Kwieciński, Julie Ryan
Production
Akson
Studio, MK1 Productions
World Sales
Wide
Austrian Premiere
World Premiere
San Sebastián International
Film Festival 2020
With the kind support of the Polish Institute Vienna