The film THE HORSE TAIL will be released soon
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31. 10. 2024. Department
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Brave, uncompromising, visionary – Justyna Łuczaj’s full-length feature debut film produced by our INDEKS Film Studio will be released soon. We invite you to cinemas from 8, November.

First, there was film project pitching:

* in the GOES TO CANNES programme of the international fair MARCHÉ DU FILM IFF Cannes
* Polish Days at New Horizons in Wrocław

Then, festival screenings at:
* Ravenna Nightmare Film Fest
* New Jersey Film Festival
* Asia Film Art International Film Festival
* Mammoth Lakes Film Festival
* Torino Underground Cinefest

Critical acclaim:
* " An unconventional and visionary work (…)" - Giona Nazzaro
* " Film - an experience, a fever dream dreamt beyond time and space (…)" – Jakub Żulczyk

And now there WILL BE a cinema distribution!

We invite adult viewers to cinemas from 8, November.
The film is distributed by Reset.

And on 7, November, we invite you to Krosno to ArtKino for a pre-premiere screening with the director's participation, as part of DKF 16mm.

THE HORSE TAIL, 2022
screenplay and direction: Justyna Łuczaj
cinematography: Małgorzata Szyłak
editing: Urszula Klimek-Piątek, Paweł Laskowski, Justyna Łuczaj production management: Konrad Wróblewski, Dagna Kidoń
artistic supervision: Mariusz Grzegorzek
producer: Marcin Malatyński // INDEKS Film Studio
poster designers: Witold Gretzyngier, Julia Rut

This is a modern version of the Oedipus myth. The action of the film takes place in an undefined place (in a town at the foot of a cliff, between a rubbish dump, barns and a forest), where people hide painful secrets. After years of absence, Diana returns to town with milk dripping from her breasts. She is depressed and has lapses in memory. Her return coincides with a crime committed in the nearby forest. Things get complicated when the main suspect Maj befriends ten-year-old Dagmara, the daughter of the victim. Their relationship is based on exceptional sensitivity and opposition to the corrupt world. When a horsetail wraps around them while they are play in the river, Maj knows it's a bad sign.

Justyna Łuczaj is a painter, director, screenwriter, and producer born in 1975 in Krosno. She is a graduate of the Painting Department at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków and the Directing Department at the National Film School in Łódź. She graduated with PhD at Interdisciplinary Doctoral Studies at the Lodz Film School and is an assistant at the Institute of Fine Arts at the University of Rzeszów. She made her directorial debut in 2002 with the short film “Waiting for Love” and has since directed several other productions, including the award-winning “T. Rickster” (2007) and the historical documentary “The Archive of Existing Cases”( "Archiwum istnień" ) in 2009.