March 23 — April 2

NINA

Olga Chajdas

Poland 130 min. min Spanish premiere
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Synopsis

Nina is a story about an unexpected, difficult love, complicated choices, a story of people who treat life as a play or game and suddenly have to face painful reality. It is a story where losers and winners stand on the same side, where the world is not divided between  good and bad, hetero and homosexuals. This is a story of impulsive love, which doesn’t care for traditional divisions.

Themes

Female DirectorLGTBIFirst FeatureSocial Issues

Filmmaker

Olga Chajdas

(Poland, 1983) She graduated in Film Production at the Lodz Film School. In 2009 she completed courses in Andrzej Wajda’s School of Film Directing. Olga started as a Director’s assistant, then 2nd and 1st AD on numerous feature films and TV series (among them: Oscar nominated In darkness by Agnieszka Holland). She directed for theatre, award winning television series and short films. Nina is her full-length feature debut.

Filmography: Nina (2018), Morning Has Broken (curt, 2017), 3 x Love (curt, 2015), The Mysterious Matter (curt, 2008)

Olga Chajdas

Film information

Director: Olga Chajdas
Script: Marta Konarzewska, Olga Chajdas
Contact: Wide Management
With: Julia Kijowska, Eliza Rycembel, Andrzej Konopka, Katarzyna Gniewkowska, Táňa Pauhofová
Country: Poland
Year: 2018
Format: DCP
Length: 130 min. min
Language: English
Subtitles: Spanish, Catalan
Edition: 2019

Awards

Big Screen Award in Rotterdam | Best Polish Film at Camerimage

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