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Directed by Agnieszka Smoczyńska
Poland, Greece | coming 2025 | sci-fi thriller

Set in a near future society ruled by sentient A.I., a private eye investigates a murder case only to discover a rebel group capable of undermining the digital overlord.

Credits

Director: Agnieszka Smoczyńska
Screenplay: Robert Bolesto
Cast: Andrzej Konopka, Noomi Rapace, and Reika Kirishima.

Produced by: Madants (Klaudia Śmieja-Rostworowska, Bogna Szewczyk-Skupień)
Co-produced by: Neda Film, Film i Väst, Zentropa, Canal+ Polska, and Moderator Inwestycje.

Executive producers: Gregory Jankilevitsch, Marcin Czernik, Christos V. Konstantakopoulos, Jan Naszewski, Marcin Łuczaj.

Co-financed by: the Polish Film Institute and the Hellenic Film & Audiovisual Center – Creative Greece.

Agnieszka Smoczyńska

Festivals & Awards

Agnieszka Smoczyńska

Agnieszka Smoczyńska debuted in 2015 with THE LURE – a genre-bending, horror-musical mashup written by Robert Bolesto,won awards around the world, at dozens of international festivals, including Porto, Sofia, Montreal, Vilnius, and the Sundance Film Festival. Recently it became a part of prestigious Criterion Collection. Her second feature film FUGUE premiered at Cannes as a part of the prestigious Critics’ Week section. In 2022, her English-language debut, SILENT TWINS, starring Letitia Wright and Tamara Lawrance, premiered in the Un Certain Regard section at the Cannes Film Festival. Smoczyńska took part in the European Cinema: Ten Women Filmmakers to Watch program. She was also a winner of the Global Filmmaking Award sponsored by the Sundance Institute. This year Smoczyńska was named among Directors to Watch in Cannes.