28th THESSALONIKI INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FESTIVAL
5 MARCH → 15 MARCH 2026
Programme Segments: Stories to Tell

Poland 2009 81 Digibeta Color
June 14, 2002: eight-year-old Ola goes missing. On this day, time stopped for her whole family. Despite the lack of evidence, the girl’s mother Dorota trusts that her daughter is alive somewhere, waiting to be found. Unfortunately, some hard facts indicate that Ola has been brutally murdered. Psychics hired by Dorota follow misleading traces, the court is helpless in the absence of evidence, the main suspect smiles at the camera. The search has been going on for seven years in an atmosphere of both hopefulness and suspicion. The film depicts a Polish province, not only through the attitude of its inhabitants towards the unexplained tragedy, but also through a dramatic vision of nature.