New World

New World

90 mins | Drama | Sept. 17, 2015

Three stories of immigrants trying to start new lives in Poland: an Afghan traumatised by the war, a Ukrainian lost in her own body, and a Belarusian running away from painful love. The Afghan, Azzam, works as a translator for the Polish army. In his homeland he is treated like a traitor. Having been evacuated to Poland, he is unable to shake off the war experiences. The Ukrainian, Wiera, escapes to Poland to undergo sex reassignment surgery in secret from her family. An unexpected visit from her father and little son will make her face the question of her own identity once more. Żanna, the Belarusian, leaves her husband, a dissident, and lives together with her daughter at her sister’s in Warsaw. She wants to move out as soon as possible and make a normal home. Things get complicated when her husband gets arrested again.

New World

90 mins | Drama | Sept. 17, 2015

New World
Three stories of immigrants trying to start new lives in Poland: an Afghan traumatised by the war, a Ukrainian lost in her own body, and a Belarusian running away from painful love. The Afghan, Azzam, works as a translator for the Polish army. In his homeland he is treated like a traitor. Having been evacuated to Poland, he is unable to shake off the war experiences. The Ukrainian, Wiera, escapes to Poland to undergo sex reassignment surgery in secret from her family. An unexpected visit from her father and little son will make her face the question of her own identity once more. Żanna, the Belarusian, leaves her husband, a dissident, and lives together with her daughter at her sister’s in Warsaw. She wants to move out as soon as possible and make a normal home. Things get complicated when her husband gets arrested again.
IMDb rating 5.2
Producers TVP, PISF, Akron Studio
Original title New World
Directors Łukasz Ostalski, Michał Wawrzecki, Elżbieta Benkowska
Writers Maksymilian Nowicki, Monika Dembińska, Izabela Aleksandrowicz, Elżbieta Benkowska

Cast

Olga Aksyonova

as Żanna Łuckiewicz

Svetlana Anikej

as Irina

Hassan Akkouch

as Azzam

Dariusz Chojnacki

as Łukasz

Irena Melcer

as Ewa

Sebastian Fabijański

as Żołnierz Artur

Alicja Juszkiewicz

as The Bride

Elżbieta Czerwińska

as The professor