SILENT LAND

Director: Agnieszka Woszczyńska,

Cast: Dobromir Dymecki, Agnieszka Zulewska, Jean-Marc Barr, Alma Jodorowsky, Marcello Romolo e con la partecipazione di Claudio Bigagli

Country: Poland - Italy - Czech Republic Length: 113’

Subject: Agnieszka Woszczyńska, Piotr Jaksa Litwin Screenplay: Agnieszka Woszczyńsk, Piotr Jaksa Litwin Cinematography: Bartosz Świniarski Editing: Jarosław Kamiński PSM

Set design: Ilaria Sadun Costume design: Anna Sikorska

Make up design: Agnieszka "Józefina" Sasim First Assistant Director: Ivo Krankowski Sound engineer: Zofia Moruś

Sound design: Zofia Moruś, Marek Poledna

Casting: Sara Casani, Maya Serrulla Producer: Giovanni Pompili, Agnieszka Wasiak PGP
Co-producer: Jordi Niubó

World Sales: New Europe Film Sales

A polish-czech republic-italian co-production by Kino produzioni with Lava Films, I/o post, EC1, PISF, SFK/CFF and CANAL + supported by MiC - Direzione Generale Cinema e Audiovisivo, with the support of Polskiego Instytutu Sztuki Filmowej, Eurimages Creative Europe Media Slate / Programu Kreatywna Europa, MIC, Czech Film Fund, Fondazione Sardegna Film Commission

SYNOPSIS

A perfect couple rents a holiday home on a sunny Italian island. The reality does not live up to their expectations when they find out that the pool in the house is broken. Ignorant of the fact that the island faces water shortage, they ask for someone to fix it. The constant presence of a stranger invades the couple’s idea of safety and starts a chain of events, which makes them act instinctively and irrationally, heading to the darkest place in their relationship.

DIRECTOR’S BIOGRAPHY

Born in 1984. Director, scriptwriter, anthropologist. Aga graduated from Applied Social Science (2008) and The Polish National Film School in Lodz - Directing Department (2014). For many years she has been working as Assistant Director in Poland and abroad. Her short films were presented and won awards at numerous film festivals, including Cannes Film Festival, Helsinki International Film Festival, T-Mobile New Horizons, Sao Paulo Kinoforum or Warsaw Film Festival and have been brought by national and international TV channels. Her graduation short film "Fragments" had its international Premiere at Cannes Film Festival in Directors' Fortnight (Quinzaine des Réalisateurs). „Silent Land”, which premiered in Toronto IFF Platform Competition is her first feature film. She is currently working on her second feature „Black Water”.

FESTIVAL AND AWARDS

TIFF Platform – world premiere

PRESS RELEASE

Web sites

2021/08/11 Deadline

Quotes

“ELEGANT, UNFORGIVING, FROIDURE FOUND IN THE FILMS OF MICHAEL HANEKE” - SCREEN

“A FROSTILY ASSURED FEATURE DEBUT” - SCREEN

“IMPRESSIVE, TENSE AND HIGHLY INTELLIGENT FILMAKING” - FILMUFORIA

“INVIGORATING, FRESH, AND FULL OF LIFE” - FILM THREAT

“ WOSZCZYNSKA’S CAMERA IS UNFLINCHING, THIS FILM IS SO GRIPPING” - SALON

“A CINEMATIC GEM” - FADE TO HER