NEWBORN
POLISH TITLE: DZIECKO
When Aśka’s child is born, she faces a choice she did not expect. Together, with the father of her child, they are ready to welcome a baby boy but the eponymous newborn has biological features of both sexes. The doctor presents the young parents with surgery as a solution - they would only have to choose the sex. She has a child, but now she needs to decide whether she is going to be raising a son or a daughter. Unfortunately, in Poland, where the plot takes place, the law determines there is no third sex, i.e., intersex people do not exist under any law. The issue comes out when the woman’s parents visit to greet their grandson. They pressure the mother, trying to convince her to their point of view so she decides quickly. Will the woman stand up to her family and fight for the freedom of her newborn baby.
- GENRE:
- fiction
- COUNTRY:
- Polska
- RUNNING TIME:
- 21'
- YEAR:
- 2022
- COLOUR:
- colour
- DIRECTING:
- Zuzanna Grajcewicz
- SCRIPT:
- Zuzanna Grajcewicz
- DOP:
- Ewa Radzewicz
- EDITOR:
- Katarzyna Drozdowicz
- CAST:
- Justyna Wasilewska, Julian Świeżewski, Marta Nieradkiewicz, Agnieszka Suchora, Andrzej Walden, Lech Mackiewicz, Yeva Shchesniak, Sebastian Pawlak, Katarzyna Kucharska
- SOUND:
- Rafał Nowak, Grzegorz Kucharski
- PRODUCTION:
- Państwowa Wyższa Szkoła Filmowa, Telewizyjna i Teatralna
Zuzanna Grajcewicz »
Director and screenwriter, born in 1994 in Szczecin, raised in Łobez in the West Pomeranian Voivodeship, currently residing in Warsaw. She graduated from the Polish National Film School in Lodz in Film Directing and before that from the Jagiellonian University in Cracow in Film Studies and Theatre Studies. In 2020, she was the recipient of the Młoda Polska scholarship funded by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage. Her short movies have been shown at over several dozen festivals in Poland and abroad. She was awarded, among others, at the 18th New Horizons International Festival, 40. The „Youth and Film” Festival and 16. „Two Rivers” Film and Art Festival. She gained experience in working on many film sets. At present, she is developing her debut feature film.- 38th Warsaw Film Festival, Poland, 2022 (screening)