41st Film Festival Warsaw

The 14-year-old Dawid lives with his nine-year-old brother and mother in a run-down apartment building. Their father is in prison for burglary and theft, but the younger brother doesn't want to know anything about that. He idealizes his father and can't stand his mother's new compagnon. Torn between his father's rigid instructions and his love for his mother and brother, Dawid tries to find his own way in life. With many close-ups and a moving handheld camera, the film lets us participate in David's struggle for a place in life, with the likeable lead actor giving a thoroughly convincing performance. A moving film about family cohesion, brotherly love, and the value of forgiveness, which shows to a young generation perspectives for the future.

Nino, who has just turned 29, learns rather by chance during an examination that he has cancer and needs urgent treatment. He has three days over the weekend to prepare himself and find someone to accompany him to his first chemotherapy session. The director's debut feature film captivates viewers with its Canadian lead actor Théodore Pellerin and its observational style of filmmaking. On his three-day journey through the anonymous cityscapes of Paris, oscillating between silent despair and stoic composure, Nino encounters many people who have their own destinies to bear and, like Nino, are hardly able to communicate. A film carried by compassion and great humanity, it shows that there are also true friends, tenderness, and mutual understanding.