MOM IS GOING BACK
POLISH TITLE: MAMA WRACA
Is it possible to travel in place? Is it possible to replace Himalayan expanses with Beskid hills? Ever since Wiktoria - who suffers from infantile cerebral palsy - was born, her mother Veronika has been grappling with these questions, trying to find her old passions in her new life with her daughter.
- GENRE:
- fiction
- COUNTRY:
- Poland
- RUNNING TIME:
- 21'
- YEAR:
- 2023
- COLOUR:
- colour
- DIRECTING:
- Mikołaj Janik
- SCRIPT:
- Mikołaj Janik
- DOP:
- Mikołaj Janik, Janusz Gawron
- EDITOR:
- Mikołaj Janik, Irena Banat, Monika Chyżyńska
- MUSIC:
- Michał Drabczyk
- SOUND:
- Piotr Pastuszak
- PRODUCTION:
- Leszek Kopeć, Jerzy Rados
Mikołaj Janik »
Born in 1993 in Wadowice. Graduated in documentary filmmaking from the University of Warsaw and in directing from the Gdynia Film School. He makes documentaries and is beginning his adventure with feature films. Mikołaj writes scripts, songs and fairy tales for children. When he has time - he escapes to the mountains. He is currently working on the documentaries 'Panorama Tatr', 'Mama wraca', 'Ewolucja światła według Janusza Chmielniaka'. 'Mandala' (2023) is his feature film debut, produced at the Gdynia Film School.
AT FESTIVALS:
- International Festival "Reflection of Disability in Art", 2023, Greece, 2023 (competition)
- Barcelona Disablity Fillm Festival, 2024, Spain, 2024 (Best Short Film)
- The Carpathian Mountain International Film Festival, 2024, Ukraine, 2024 (Award for best sports film)
- Festival Inclús, 2024, Spain, 2024 (Best Short Film)
- The Extraordinary Film Festival, 2025, Belgium, 2025 (competition)
- Seize the Film, 2025, Serbia, Croatia, Montenegro, 2025 (Grand Prix [Novi Sad], 2nd Award Documentary [Rijeca])
- Art Without Limit International Film Festival, 2025, Kosovo, 2025 (competition)