LUXURY

LUKSUS

The lives of two boys converge at the central train station in Warsaw a day before Christmas. One is a teen prostitute nicknamed Luksus (Luxury) and the other is a beggar with a dog. The older one, because of his age, has just finished his ‘career’. The younger one is only a step away from it as he has come into possession of a valuable notebook with the addresses and telephone numbers of clients. A local taxi driver, the main client and agent in the underage sex business, offers Luksus a job as a tout.Will the boy exploit his younger friend or will he help him escape paedophiles’ clutches? Painfully realistic, photographed in the authentic setting of the station, Sztandera’s film touches upon a real problem often ignored by Polish cinema.

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  • Genre: Fabularny
  • Running time: 39
  • Year: 2009

Director: Jarosław Sztandera

Script: Jarosław Sztandera, Tomek Olejarczyk

DOP: Radosław Ładczuk

Editing: Jarosław Sztandera

Production company: PWSFTviT (Państwowa Wyższa Szkoła Filmowa, Telewizyjna i Teatralna), TVP S.A.

About the director:

Jarosław Sztandera

Jarosław Sztandera

Born in 1974. He is the creator of For a Miracle (2004), a documentary film that has won many awards. When he was still a student of Łódź Film School he made a documentary study entitled When Love Feels Hung-over (2001) and a fiction study entitled A Boy from Promotion (2002). 

At festivals:

37 Algrave International Film Festival, 2009 (competition)

Festival de Cannes, Short Film Corner, France, 2009 (screening)

12th Brooklyn International Film Festival, New York, USA, 2009 (competition)

Paris Cinema International Film Festival, 2009 (competition)

Fresh Film Fest, Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic , 2009 (screening)

4. Batumi International Art House Film Festival, Batumi, Gruzja, 2009 (competition)

24th Brest European Short Film Festival, France, 2009 (screening)

Flickerfest International Short Film Festival, Australia, 2010 (competition)

Next Reel International Film Festival, Singapore, 2010 (competition)

Sofia International Film Festival, Bulgaria , 2010 (screening)

Algarve International Film Festival, Portugal, 2010 (competition)

Worldwide Short Film Festival, Canada, 2010 (screening)

Curtas Vila do Conde , Portugal, 2010 (screening)

Message to Man International Film Festival, St Petersburg, Russia, 2010 (screening)

ALCINE - Festival de Cine de Alcalá de Henares / Comunidad de Madrid, 2010 (screening)

8. Festival Du Cinema De Brive, France, 2011 (screening)

Arcipelago International Festival of Short Films and New Images, Italy, 2012 (screening)