Polish Prayers

Director Hanka Nobis accompanied her protagonist Antek for four years - during the right-wing nationalist exercises and ultra-religious gatherings that make up his everyday life. When the young man falls in love, however, he first questions his previously sacred celibacy and subsequently a number of other things. Antek finds himself caught between two fronts of opinion, actually firmly anchored in the arch-Catholic youth community of the “Brotherhood”, but open to the world within himself. In impressively close-up images, POLISH PRAYERS shows how a cinematic approach to a person behind his extreme positions can succeed. (Text Crossing Europe/Jakob Dibold)