Australian premiere

Part I - Żanna
Director:
Elzbieta Benkowska
Screenwriter:
Monika Dembińska
Elżbieta Benkowska
Cinematography:
Sławomir Witek

Part II - Azzam
Director:
Michał Wawrzecki
Screenwriter:
Izabela Aleksandrowicz
Cinematography:
Cezary Stolecki

Part III - Wiera
Director:
Łukasz Ostalski
Screenwriter:
Maksymilian Nowicki
Cinematography:
Piotr Pawlus

Production: Akson Studio

Producer: Jan Kwieciński

Cast Zanna:
Olga Kavalay-Aksenowa, Julian Świeżewski, Dominika Maiseyenka, Svetlana Anikej, Mirosław
Kotowicz, Grzegorz Miśtal

Cast Azzam:
Hassan Akkouch, Irena Melcer, Dariusz Chojnacki, Elżbieta Komorowska, Sebastian
Fabijański, Piotr Bulcewicz

Cast Wiera:
Karina Minaeva, Georgij Leshchenko, Stanislav Boklan, Robert Latusek, Joanna Halinowska

Poland 2015
Duration: 100 minutes


In Polish language


With English subtitles

Belarusian Zhanna (a segment directed by Elżbieta Benkowska) settled down in Warsaw with her little daughter and her adaptation process resembles the collectively accepted formula of economic migrants, an event Ulrich Seidl depicts with gusto and relevant bravado when west meets east in Import/Export. Earning a living in perspective-less job as a cleaner she pursues a degree at local university to reach for better life. Her situation is more complicated since she not only carries the baggage of her nationality as much as that of her former life. The father of her child and what appears still a legal husband does not really shake hands with Belarusian potentates, their departing country.

Second story throws interpreter for war operations in Afghanistan, Azzam (directed by Michał Wawrzecki), from the traumatizing battlefield into kitchen of a night club under the auspice of the club´s boss and his former colleague from the fire of war. Besides the tightly sketched episodes, the filmmakers benefited from a pseudo-genre template whilst Zhanna´s strife for new life has markings of family drama, Azzam´s tribulations are embodied in a ménage a trois of which he is one side unwillingly and unwittingly purely for narrative purposes of confrontation-driven plot and twists as a design to treat his love life. Receiving advances from male and female colleague, Azzam´s scarred subconscious and paralyzing PTSD are his number one concern.

The last segment Wiera (directed by Łukasz Ostalski) deals with utmost actual question of gender self-identification of an Ukrainian immigrant seeking to fulfil his physical completion in Poland. Ostalski´s piece resembles story-wise time jumps from second season of Transparent foreshadowing the history of Pfefferman´s clan. twitchfilm.com