8th Edition

Maciej Belarusski

BIO

A film and theatre director, he graduated from the Łódź Film School. He made his feature-length documentary debut with "Poles' Own Portrait" (premiered at Docs Against Gravity). He has also made numerous award-winning short films. He has collaborated with venues including the National Theatre in Warsaw and the Studio Theatre in Łódź.

SYNOPSIS

Bożena (40) moves out of her idyllic, rural family home for the first time and moves to a soulless metropolis, where she becomes a cleaner in a nouveau-riche housing estate. It turns out that Bożena's cleaning services remove not only ordinary impurities but also the residents' internal "filth." However, she unexpectedly loses her job. She wrongly suspects it is an intervention of the Virgin Mary, who is actually Bożena's mother. Her Father (God), disgusted with the current state of humanity, is planning another flood. The cleaner, against the will of her holy parents, decides to save the people who, despite firing her, have become her new, true family.