We’d like to invite you to the screening of Paweł Sala’s ‘Mother Teresa of Cats’ and the meeting with the director which will be held on August 4 in Kazimierz and on August 5 in Puławy. The meetings in Kazimierz and Puławy will begin at 8:30 p.m. and 7:00 p.m. respectively.

Paweł Sala was born in 1968 in Poznań. He graduated from Krzysztof Kieślowski Radio and Television Faculty at the University of Silesia in Katowice and from the departments of cultural studies at universities in Poznań, Łódź and Katowice. He is the author of plays (‘Gang Bang or the Stockholm Syndrome’, ‘The Burning of the Mother’, ‘Son of the Snow Queen’ ,’Mortal Combine’, ‘Infigenia, My Sister’) and the drama ‘We Will Be Good From Today On’, published in ‘The Porno Generation’ anthology and staged for the TV Theatre.

He is the co-founder of the G8 Stage group and a director of short documentary films (‘A Stigmatic’, ‘A Scar After My Mother’, ‘The City of Volunteers’, ‘Extras’ filmed on the set of Polański’s ‘Pianist’, ‘Story from a Tyskie beer bottle’, ‘Sisters’). He is a two-time finalist of the Polish edition of the Hartley-Merrill script competition

‘Mother Teresa of Cats’ is his feature debut. The film begins with a scene of two brothers being arrested. Days that preceded those tragic events reveal motifs of this terrible crime… A dark thrilling criminal story transforms into horrifying psychological vivisection. The film is a shocking record of a crime committed by two young boys (12 and 21 years old); they killed their own mother.

The director was inspired by a real case of matricide which happened 10 years ago in a seemingly normal family. He says: “I always repeat that this is an anti-crime story. It’s obvious who the culprit is and who is the victim (…) It’s more about the genesis of the evil rather than of the crime.’ Filip Garbacz and Mateusz Kościukiewicz, the leading actors, were awarded at the Festival in Karlovy Vary.

After the screening of the film at the Festival in Karlovy Vary, when the end credits had already disappeared from the screen, the spectators applauded the director and the film one more time.