NIKOTYNA | short fiction | GER / PL 2018 | dffb / Lodz Film School | 23´ | 1:1,85 | alexa & ultra primes

Christmas Eve 1981 with Poland under martial law, 15 year old Marta has to spend Christmas with her family by candle light due to the electricity being cut off. In the sombre atmosphere of the family home altercations come to light. Marta leaves the home after a fight with her father. Family conflict left behind her, she experiences another kind of conflict in the outside world: the sinister and brutal oppression of martial law out on the streets Lodz, an experience which will change her life irreversibly.

director: Ewa Wikieł | producer: Roxana Richters | production design: Marcela Mis | costume design: Mateusz Bidzinski | makeup artist: Natalia Turowska | production manager: Milena Le Viet & Inga Przybylak | production coordinator: Luiza Skrzek | gaffer: Joachim Schlag & Raffael Firmbach | 1st AC: Kathi Schelling, Alicia Devaux & Tomek Sajewski | 2nd AC: Monika Majkowska & Michał Tyszkiewicz | editor: Alan Zejer | colorist: Julia Roestel | rental: Arri Rental Berlin

cast
Paulina Walendziak | Andrzej Mastalerz | Katarzyna Tarkowska-Ż̇ogała | Kuba Borowski | Tomira Kowalik | Dominik Wójcik | Delfina Wilkonska | Jan Stark | Bożena Kowalska | Piotr Sewerynski

awards
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screenings [selection]
Max-Ophüls-Preis 2018
Polish Film Festival Gdynia 2018
Filmfest Dresden 2018
Interfilm Berlin 2018
filmPOLSKA 2018
Achtung Berlin 2018
Short Film Festival Cologne 2018
Lubuskie Lato Filmowe 2019