In a quiet, lonesome Polish city, a neglected ten year old girl kidnaps a pampered toddler and pretends to be her mother.
Acting
Karolina Ostrozna's feral, fascinating performance as Crow.
Direction
Kędzierzawska's unflinching eye for childhood alienation.
Cinematography
Cramped apartments and gray streets that suffocate.

Director
Dorota Kędzierzawska
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of Poland's 'cinema of moral concern' legacy, but through a child's merciless perspective. Kędzierzawska remains criminally underseen outside festivals.
The title 'Wrony' literally means crows—birds that steal shiny things and are hated for surviving. Crow steals a child, the ultimate shiny thing she can't keep.