7th Edition
Lukasz Ruciński
BIO
Director, screenwriter, and investigative reporter. Winner of awards and nominations in television reporting and investigative journalism. His documentary Young Belarus won the Audience Award at WatchDocs 2022. Author of short films that have screened at festivals worldwide. Winner of the 2020 Papaya Young Directors Award. A graduate of StoryLabPro.
SYNOPSIS
Aleksandra is the daughter of a man high in the party's structures. Her father planned her career under Joanna Urbańska, the head of the local intelligence services. Aleksandra is given the task of using a spy program to spy on Arek, a popular politician who is inconvenient to the government. The services suspect him of corruption. The accusations quickly prove unfounded. But Urbańska issues another order: Aleksandra is to upload fabricated evidence to Arek. If she fails, the politician will harm her father. She faces a dilemma: should she break the man to protect her father, or should she defy the system? It doesn't make matters any easier that Arek recognizes true values in life—and she begins to realize they are lacking in her family.