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Director's Statement
Our film is about a need for spirituality - you can feel the new era coming. We, as a society, are transitioning from aggressive capitalism and the gradual destruction of our planet towards a greater awareness of what it has all led to. We also have an urgent need to go deep inside ourselves. The seemingly banal ability to look inside oneself, to define one’s real needs and longings, to name one’s feelings, is actually a very difficult task.
From our observations, the whole sphere of interpersonal relationships, now largely based on social networking platforms, is built on our need to belong to a group, to be accepted in society. As a result, people focus only on how they are perceived by others. In our film, we wanted to show people when they are alone. We live in times when people are constantly trying to measure, label, weigh, and plan everything, attempting to create a formula for the perfect life. We also wanted to juxtapose that with the upper class portrayed in our movie. They have a serious inferiority complex about their Easternness, they would like to break away from the East. This subject has not yet been taken up by Polish cinema. The gated housing estate is a symbol of modern Poland, but it may even be a symbol of Europe. After all, we are all watching her close her borders to refugees.
We remember looking forward to winter when we were young, when we used to go sledding and built snowman. As a result of climate change, our children no longer know the Poland where it always used to snow in the winter. Our movie touches on many current and important subjects. Global warming sparked many problems we face now as a society; also the pandemic - the one we’re going through now, as well as the ones we will see in the future. Although I believe there is hope in our film, I do know for sure that it’s never going to snow again.