ARRIVAL

PRZYJAZD

Alice comes back home to take her daughter Sophie to a family therapy retreat, part of Alice’s rehab. Despite having agreed to the trip before, Sophie’s grandmother does not want to let her go. Alice stays home for the weekend in an attempt to restore the closeness with her daughter. However, Sophie does not feel ready to let go of the pain that Alice had caused her.

Genre: Live action
Country: Polska
Running time: 19
Year: 2017
Color: colour

Director: Justyna Pelc

Script: Justyna Pelc

DOP: Sławomir Witek

Music: Marcin Cieślik

Editing: Justyna Pelc

Sound: Piotr Podgórski

Production company: Gdyńska Szkoła Filmowa

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About the director:

Justyna Pelc was born on the 26th of July 1990 in Gdynia. She graduated from the Faculty of Management at the University of Gdańsk and from the Department of Film Directing at the Gdynia Film School. In 2013, she participated in the Pomerania Film Workshop and her film received the special mention prize at The One Minutes Festival in Gdańsk. Her school diploma movie got into The 36. Youth and Cinema Festival in Koszalin, Poland and since July 2017 it’s represented by Cracow Film Foundation.

At festivals:

XV International Festival-Workshop of Film Schools Kinoproba, Russia, 2018 (screening)

Leuven Short Film Festival 2018, Belgium, 2018 (competition)