Oskar Pawelko

In Slit Your Click the trans woman’s role of marginal villain—clad in a shiny trench coat, blonde wig, nylon stockings, and fierce make-up—is evaded. She instead walks away possessing the film’s focus, becoming its sympathetic heroine.

The radical Polish director Małga Kubiak is regularly represented with her films at the Pornfilmfestival Berlin. In 2016 we showed “Andy Warhol to se vrati: boyz” and in 2019 followed “Federico Garcia Lorca Noir Despair”. Last year she was in the festival program with “Xreens”. In her latest film “D’Vinci”, the filmmaker again reflects on a famous artist. As expected, it did not turn out to be a typical biopic, and Kubiak dives deep into the meaning that her films and her way of working have and had for herself and for others – as always in her incomparable no-budget style. In today’s conservative Poland, her way of making films is no easy feat.