It's the last week of school in a small polish town's junior high school. Waiting for the final party, several students pass the time at a city pool, as if anticipating the emotional whirlwind they are about to experience. The action takes place somewhere in Poland, where ‘LGBT free zones’ are a reality in 2020. It’s a story about young people, their problems and romantic endeavours in the era of the Internet and social apps, when creating genuine relationships is unnaturally difficult.
Acting
Drzymalska's Monika carries entire conversations in glances.
Direction
Nickel makes the pool feel both liberating and surveilled.
Writing
Dialogue that actually sounds like teens, not screenwriter teens.
Director
Dawid Nickel
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Released as Poland's 'LGBT-free zones' gained EU condemnation; several municipalities refused to screen it. The film's very existence is political praxis.
Nickel cast non-professional teens from actual Polish pool towns—their familiarity with the locations' real hostility informed performances without scripted trauma.
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