New World

Nowy świat

  • Description
  • Cast and crew
  • Duration: 100’
  • Genre: DRAMA
  • Resolution: HD
  • Year: 2015

Three young people from Belarus, Ukraine, and Afghanistan come to Poland to find their new home and start anew. The first character leaves her husband, a Belarusian oppositionist, and together with her daughter move to Warsaw in search of a new life. However, when her husband goes to prison, her life gets complicated. The second character is an Afghan who used to work as a translator for the Polish army. In his homeland, he is treated as a traitor. When he moves to Poland he cannot come to terms after the war scenes he saw. Will he find his new home in Poland? The last character of the film was born in Ukraine. The reason she comes to Poland is to undergo gender reassignment surgery. The woman keeps the surgery a secret from her family, but an unexpected visit of her father and little son makes her rethink her goals.

  • Awards:
  • 2016 Off Camera International Festival of Independent Cinema in Kraków – 2nd Prize

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