The read
It runs a compact 18m.
Synopsis
In the 1990s, eight-year-old Agata leaves her Polish homeland to take a bus to Belgium by herself. Anxious about the journey, she begins to write a letter to her father who has stayed behind in Poland. When she drops her pencil and it rolls away, Agata is forced to overcome her shyness. Searching for it, she weaves her way between the rows of seats and plunges into a fantastical world inhabited by strange half-human, half-animal passengers. Agata’s perceptions transform the reality of migration into an imaginative experience of initiation.
Ratings
IMDb6.8/10
3 audience votes
Key crew
- Sylwia SzkiłądźDirector
- Sylwia SzkiłądźScreenplay
- Sylwia SzkiłądźWriter
Cast
- Natalia WolskaAgata (voice)
- Anna SeniukFemale Sparrow (voice)
- Henryk NiebudekGrandfather (voice)
- Elżbieta GaertnerGrandmother (voice)
- Marcin PempuśBus Driver (voice)
- Lidia SadowaBat (voice)
- Barbara JonakMouse / She-Wolf (voice)
- Mariusz OstrowskiBear (voice)
- Konrad BetaFather (voice)