Be Somebody

SHORT FICTION | STARRING: SEBASTIAN STANKIEWICZ, JOWITA BUDNIK | COLOR | 27' | 2023

A common guy, an electrician named Wiktor moves in with his family to a new apartment. Soon they find out that the apartment used to belong to Lech Walesa, a former Polish President and a Nobel Peace Prize winner, who started out as an electrician. Wiktor’s wife, Sylwia, starts to make money on foreign tourists, turning their new home into a museum and her husband into Walesa’s impersonator. Sylwia’s new obsession leads to Wiktor’s confrontation with Walesa’s legend.

Screenings:

  • Krakow Film Festival (Poland, 2023)
  • mbank New Horizons iff (Poland, 2023)
  • Ińskie Lato Filmowe (Poland, 2023)
  • Octopus Film Festival (Poland, 2023)
  • „Lato z Muzami” (Poland, 2023)
  • BNP Paribas „Two riversides” (Poland, 2023)
  • Lubuskie Film Summer (Poland, 2023)
  • Bana Film Festival (Poland, 2023)
  • Freedom Film Festival (Poland, 2023)
  • Festival of Film Debuts in Koszalin (Poland, 2023)
  • 48. Polish Film Festival in Gdynia (Poland, 2023)
  • Festiwal Filmowy Zoom-Zbliżenia (Poland, 2024)
  • 27. Kino na Granicy (Poland/Czech Republic, 2024)
  • 53. International Student Film Festival Sehsüchte (Germany, 2024)
  • 70. OKFA (Poland, 2024)
  • Festiwal Filmów Satyrycznych „Pyszadło” (Poland, 2024)
  • Kino Susidiv (Ukraine, 2024)
  • Batumi International Art-House Film Festival (Georgia, 2024)
  • International Film Festival BRNO 16 (Czech Republic, 2024)
  • AGRFT Festival (Slovenia, 2024)
  • FilmPolska in Berlin (Germany, 2024)
  • 39. Warsaw Film Festival (Poland, 2023)
  • Big Festivalowski (Poland, 2023)
  • 14. Festival Kamera Akcja – International Competition „Authors Spotlight” (Poland, 2023)
  • Wama Film Festival (Poland, 2023)
  • Cottbus Film Festival (Germany, 2023)
  • Festiwal Filmowy OFFELIADA (Poland, 2023)
  • Euroshorts Film Festival (Poland, 2023)
  • Leuven Kortfilmfestival (Belgium, 2023)
  • Busan Short Film Festival (South Korea, 2024)
  • European Short Film Festival of Lille (France, 2024)
  • Vilnius International Film Festival (Lithuania, 2023)
  • 27. Brussels Short Film Festival (Belgium, 2024)
  • 40. FAMUFEST (Czech Republic, 2024)
  • 38. Tarnowska Nagroda Filmowa (Poland, 2024)
  • 16. Solanin Film Festival (Poland, 2024)
  • Lakeside Film Festival (Germany, 2024)
  • Kyiv International Short Film Festival (Ukraine, 2024)
  • Lundäng International Film Festival (Sweden, 2024)
  • Elbe Dock (Germany and Czech Republic, 2024)
  • Beast International Film Festival (Portugal, 2024)

Sales & distribution:

Produced by :

The Polish National Film, Television and Theatre School in Lodz
Agata Golańska
a.golanska@filmschool.lodz.pl 
+48 667 150 124
filmschool.lodz.pl

Promotion and Festivals:

The Polish National Film, Television and Theatre School in Lodz
Krzysztof Brzezowski
k.brzezowski@filmschool.lodz.pl
+48 603 866 558

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WRITTEN BY: MICHAŁ TOCZEK | DOP: TOMASZ PAWLIK | EDITING: IGNACY CIUNELIS, JAKUB DIDKOWSKI | MUSIC BY: JAN KRÓLIKOWSKI | PRODUCTION DESIGN: KATARZYNA TOMCZYK | COSTUME DESIGNER: OLGA PRZYLIPIAK | PRODUCTION MANAGER: JULIA WŁODARCZYK | EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: AGATA TERPIAŁ, KAROLINA PRZEKLASA | PRODUCED BY: POLISH NATIONAL FILM SCHOOL IN LODZ | CO-FINANCED BY: POLISH FILM INSTITUTE