Daniel Stopa

At a newsstand, two women file divorce papers so that one of them can start a new chapter in her life, free of fear and violence.

They come to buy newspapers and cigarettes, boast, complain, or talk. A mother with a teething baby, a woman worried about her cat’s disease, an old man devoted to the Catholic radio… How many people in the kiosk window with so many small and big human stories, funny and bitter ones, always authentic and not leaving a viewer indifferent.

Pole, who are you? This film collage that combines archival and contemporary materials, documentary and staged pictures, press reports, social announcements, sale offers and speech excerpts is an attempt to answer this question. Referring to the Polish tradition of a creative documentary in the style of Wojciech Wiszniewski, the film presents various manifestations of Polishness: patriotic and religious rituals, everyday traditions as well as characteristic landscapes or intimate memories from childhood.

Marlena struggles with a serious marital crisis due to the alcohol addiction of her husband, Zbigniew. Via the Internet she meets Bruno, a Senegalese, who brings back Marlena’s self-confidence and sense of womanhood. However, it turns out that the man plans something rather different for her than building a relationship with her…