Annual event co-sponsored this year by the Polish Student Association of UW-Madison
in collaboration with UW-Madison Department of German, Nordic and Slavic; UW-Madison Center for Russia, East Europe, and Central Asia (CREECA), Wisconsin Union Directorate (WUD) Film Committee; Associated Students of Madison (ASM), and Polish Heritage Club of WI-Madison.

November 13 at 6:30 pm

lLLUSION
(original title: Iluzja)
(2022, dir. Marta Minorowicz, 1hour 30 minutes)

Many months after her disappearance, the mother of a missing daughter starts her own increasingly irrational investigation. At times she plays with reality, at others – she questions it. These experiences strengthen her observation skills, which eventually leads her to be able to perceive a miracle beyond boundaries. A film about the power of the human spirit, about searching for reconciliation and harmony against tragic circumstances.

► TRAILER ◄

NOTE: A selection of short films will precede this screening.

Marta Minorowicz (dir): Born in Brudnik in 1979. She graduated in Theatre Studies from Jagiellonian University and she completed a documentary film program at the Wajda School. Her documentary films, such as A Piece of Summer and Decrescendo, won numerous awards, including the Grand Prix at the Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival, the Golden Dove at DOK Leipzig, and the Grand Prix at the Man in Danger Media Film Festival in Poland. Her feature-length documentary-fiction hybrid Zud was nominated for the Crystal Bear Award at the 2016 Berlin IFF (the Generation competition) and it received the Fathy Farag award at the Cairo International Film Critics Week and a Special Mention at the Polish Film Festival in Gdynia in the Visions Apart section. The “Illusion” is the director’s full-length feature debut.