Other People

Inni Ludzie

63rd TIFF: Greek Premiere

An urban drama about Kamil, a wannabe-rapper who should be getting his life and career going but instead gets high, roams around the city and starts an affair with a bored, rich housewife Iwona. It’s a polyphonic story about isolated people dreaming of love in the big city, a fresh, funky, and dark tale of modern society existing in the shadow of capitalism, where other people – neighbours, commuters, and passersby, become a modern incarnation of a Greek chorus, voicing the inner anger and frustration of the protagonists.

Screening Schedule

No physical screenings scheduled.

Direction: Aleksandra Terpinska

Script: Aleksandra Terpinska (based on a novel by Dorota Masłowska)

Cinematography: Bartosz Bieniek

Editing: Magdalena Chowańska

Sound: Marcin Kasiński, Kacper Habisiak, Filip Krzemień

Music: Auer

Actors: Jacek Beler, Magdalena Koleśnik, Marek Kalita, Sonia Bohosiewicz, Sebastian Fabijanski

Production: Madants

Producers: Klaudia Śmieja-Rostworowska, Beata Rzeźniczek

Co-production: Moderator Inwestycje, Film Produkcja, Warner Bros. Entertainment Poland, Mazovia Warsaw Film Fund, Abstraction Plan, Canal+ Polska, Aneta Graff-Dąbrowska, Alcatraz Films

Costumes: Weronika Orlińska

Production Design: Anna Marzęda

Format: DCP

Color: Color

Production Country: Poland, France

Production Year: 2021

Duration: 102΄

Contact: New Europe Film Sales

Awards/Distinctions: FIPRESCI Prize – Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival 2021

Aleksandra Terpinska

Polish filmmaker based in Warsaw. Director and screenwriter of short films, commercials and music videos. Studied Directing at the University of Silesia in Katowice, and Psychology at the University of Wroclaw. Her film America (2015) received 16 awards including Golden Horseman of the Youth Jury at Filmfest Dresden, Best Short Film at Sehsuchte International Student Film Festival in Potsdam, Golden Tadpole at Camerimage IFF, Early Bird Grand Award in Bulgaria and The Flaming Faun at Shnit International Shortfilm Festival. Her short film All Souls’ Day (2011) was selected at over 100 film festivals among them San Sebastian, Palm Springs, Los Angeles, Edinburgh, Clermont-Ferrand. It received 16 awards, including Grand Prix at Short Film Festival in Drama, Best Short Film at Cottbus Film Festival and PFI and Mastershot Award at Camerimage IFF. Her last short The Best Fireworks Ever (2017) was premiered at 56th Semaine de La Critique in Cannes where the film was awarded with the Canal+ award and a Golden Rail award. Other People, based on a book by Dorota Masłowska, is her first feature film.