original title:
#19 Nightwalk
directed by:
cast:
Raffey Cassidy, Filip Rutkowski
screenplay:
Malgorzata Szumowska, Michal Englert
cinematography:
Michal Englert
music:
producer:
Agnieszka Wasiak
production:
Hi! Production, Nowhere
country:
Italy/Poland
year:
2020
film run:
9'
format:
colour
status:
Ready (23/07/2020)
festivals & awards:
It’s nighttime in Warsaw, Poland. Two very different homes. In one, a father is slovenly stretched out on a sofa, watching sports, expecting his son to be everything he is. In another apartment, all clean modern, an affluent mother sits to have dinner with her daughter, who isn’t like her at all. Simultaneously, both the boy and the girl embark on a night journey of transformation, where they shed their inherited gender layers. The city streets become a catwalk of liberation. When they meet, by chance - face-to-face, body-to-body - they wordlessly mirror each other with comfort and assurance.
DIRECTOR'S NOTES:
The inspiration for Nightwalk is my friend Filip Rutkowski. He’s genderqueer, and he expresses himself by wearing women’s clothes. In Poland - a conservative, Catholic country - Filip is extremely brave.