KASIA ADAMIK
Poland,
2026
112 minutes, Color
Based on a short story by Nobel Prize–winner Olga Tokarczuk, Winter of the Crow is a chilling cat-and-mouse drama. Starring multi-award winning Lesley Manville as Dr. Joan Andrews, the film follows a British psychology professor who travels to Poland to deliver a lecture in late 1981, only to find herself targeted as a fugitive in the chaos of a country on the eve of imposing martial law. Suddenly, Dr. Andrews is on the run through barren streets as taxis are replaced by tanks and citizens are treated like criminals by a corrupt militia. As she navigates this Kafkaesque concrete labyrinth and scrambles for any way home—possibly with the help of the British ambassador (Tom Burke)—the absurdity of state repression is overcome by a growing underlying voice guiding her to be on the right side of history.—Various sources
In Polish and English with English subtitles
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