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IFF Message to Man > 2025 > International Competition: Documentary films > The Godmother

The Godmother

Information about the film

Genres: Documentary, Full-length

Director: Marzena Sowa

Operator: Marzena Sowa

Producer: Michel Steyaert, Miléna Poylo, Gilles Sacuto, Javier Packer-Comyn

Producer company : Centre Vidéo de Bruxelles, TS Productions, Centre de l’Audiovisuel à Bruxelles

Year: 2024

Country: Belgium-France

Duration: 56 min.

Languages: Polish, French

Description

Russian premiere

Marzena Sowa is a quintessential contemporary European: independent, aware of how the world works—or should work—and single. After her mother’s death, she is consumed by longing and sets off for her distant homeland, a Polish village where her beloved aunt Niuszka—an embodiment of joie de vivre and peace with herself—lived her entire life under the heavy weight of patriarchy. The film becomes a collision of social models, resolved with an open ending.

 

About the director:

Marzena Sowa
Director and comic book author. Born in Poland in 1979, she studied modern literature in Kraków, before moving to France in 2001 to attend Michel de Montaigne University in Bordeaux. Her autobiographical comic Marzi: A Memoir received international acclaim. She later turned to filmmaking. The Godmother is her second documentary film.

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