Two strangers, one broken van, zero escape. Sometimes getting stuck is the point.
Lost in an industrial district, a delivery boy asks directions to a solitary welder. Things take a turn for the worst when he is fired, and his van refuses to start. The two men seem to be condemned to each other. The unexpected intimacy appears not to be a misfiring spark.
Direction
Szutkowski and Kapp squeeze a whole relationship into industrial dead space.
Cinematography
Ugly-beautiful warehouses become unexpectedly romantic.
Director
Kuba Szutkowski
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The title's double meaning — electrical spark and romantic spark — mirrors how the film treats industrial decay as backdrop for human warmth.
Polish short cinema has a thing for magical-realist encounters in bleak spaces; this continues that lineage without the magic, just the real.
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