FIRST LAST SUMMER

POLISH TITLE: PIERWSZE LATO KOŃCA ŚWIATA

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The world as we know it is coming to an end. In a secret military center, somewhere by the Polish sea, a strange experiment is being carried out - a group of scientists and military men transform repeat offenders into animals. The experiment is supervised by Gaja, a scientist and a veterinarian, who selects convicts for transformations, takes care of animals and decides when they can be released into the wild to fulfill their role as species restorers. In her work, she is helped by her adolescent son, Janek.- he does what he's told to and doesn't ask questions, but when a new transport of convicts arrives, a young woman U, immediately attracts his attention. She did not end up here by accident, innocent people are not sent to help dying nature, but Janek is determined to help her get out of this place. This means, however, defying his own family and a cause way bigger than himself. It is a beautiful summer, though, and the feeling that connects these two - the convict and the prison helper - could certainly have a future. If only it wasn't the first summer of the end of the world... Whose lives would we be willing to sacrifice if nature gave us such a bill?

GENRE:
fiction
COUNTRY:
Polska
RUNNING TIME:
25'
YEAR:
COLOUR:
colour
DIRECTING:
Nastazja Gonera
SCRIPT:
Nastazja Gonera
DOP:
Tomasz Gajewski
EDITOR:
Nikodem Chabior, Alan Zejer
CAST:
Daniel Namiotko, Edyta Torchan, Juliusz Chrząstowski, Alex Freiheit
MUSIC:
Wojciech Urbański, Michał Bąk
SOUND:
Błażej Kanclerz
PRODUCTION:
PWSFTviT (Państwowa Wyższa Szkoła Filmowa, Telewizyjna i Teatralna), Sputnik Studio

Nastazja Gonera »

Born 1990. Theatrologist, director and scriptwriter graduate of Lodz Film School. She’s an author of several short movies, music videos and documentaries. She is also finalist of the Teren TR organizers competition at the Rozmaitości Theater in Warsaw. As the youngest participant, she directed performative reading as part of the International Digital Play Festival at the studio theater in Warsaw and New York. Nastka is currently working on her feature debut.